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Join Visionaries, Discover Breakthrough Tech, and Power Your Next Big Idea Are you…

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• 1 min read
featured , innovation , Beta CAE , event , AI

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Next Steps for the Cadence and SkyWater MPW Service

At Cadence, we are dedicated to nurturing future innovators. Our commitment to education…

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• 6 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network , SKY130

Corporate News

New Ultra-Fast Debug Solution for Palladium Emulation with Verisium Debug

Verification engineers continually report that up to 70% of the total engineering…

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• 2 min read
news story , featured , verisium , AI

Corporate News

Cadence Recognized as TSMC OIP Partner of the Year at 2025 OIP Ecosystem Forum

The semiconductor industry thrives on collaboration, and few pairings exemplify this…

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• 2 min read
featured , cadence , OIP Partner of the Year , AI-Driven Design , TSMC
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Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Demystifying the Abstract

You heard it right! It’s Virtuoso Abstract Generator, the popular library modeling…

• 3 min read
AG , abstract , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

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Automotive at CES

Automotive was huge at CES. A lot of it went for the glamour without really having…

• 3 min read
Automotive , NVIDIA , Qualcomm

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Interconnect Design Verification Challenges

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Nimrod Reiss takes a closer look at the…

• less than a min read
Verification IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , VIP , MIPI , MIPI protocols , Nimrod Reiss , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Security in 2016 and 2017

It's the start of the year, plus the Consumer Electronics Show is over. I've already…

• 3 min read
security , botnets , mirai , drones , Singapore

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Using the Hierarchical Color Locking Check

As you incrementally build your design and decompose the layout geometry into masks…

• 2 min read
dbLock , Hierarchical Color Locking Conflicts , Multiple Patterning Technology , HCL , Coloring Engine , Virtuoso Video Diary , Hierarchical Color Locking Check , multi-patterning technology , Custom IC Design , MPT

Academic Network

Cadence Academic Network Events in Russia

Despite all of the recent political tensions, Russia remains an attractive market…

• 2 min read
MIET , Cadence Academic Network , MEPHI , RusNano , Russia

Breakfast Bytes

5G is Coming. Qualcomm Keynote at CES

Steve Mollenkopf, the CEO of Qualcomm, gave one of the keynotes at the Consumer Electronics…

• 4 min read
5G , Automotive , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , IoT , Qualcomm , mobile

Breakfast Bytes

Bluetooth 5, 4.2, Bluetooth Classic, and Bluetooth LE...Confused Yet?

What is Bluetooth 5? 4.2? Bluetooth Classic? Bluetooth Smart? Low Energy? The naming…

• 6 min read
BLE , bluetooth , bluetooth 4.2 , Bluetooth 5.0 , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Security the Google Way

The latest RISC-V workshop was held at Google. In the middle of the day, there was…

• 3 min read
security , risc-v , nsa , google , bios lockdown , rowhammer , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 16th to 20th 2017

https://youtu.be/ympju1edOh8 Coming from my office at Cadence Monday: Review…

• less than a min read
security , Automotive , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , Qualcomm , ADAS , privacy , esd alliance

Breakfast Bytes

RISCy Business: Next Hogan Evening at ESD Alliance Is RISC-V

The ESD Alliance Emerging Companies have been organizing a series of evening events…

• 2 min read
risc-v , Cadence Academic Network , ESDA , risc-v foundation , Hogan , Jim Hogan , esd allliance , Breakfast Bytes , sifive

Breakfast Bytes

CES Highlights

Happy New Year, and the first week of January means it is the Consumer Electronics…

• 4 min read
Consumer Electronics Show , CES , autonomous , virtual reality , drone , ADAS , augmented reality , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Evolution of Ethernet: The World Before Ethernet

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a three-part series on Ethernet…

• less than a min read
Verification IP , VIP , Ethernet

Breakfast Bytes

ACE Awards: Palladium Z1 Team Is Design Team of the Year

Every year, UBM, the parent company of EE TImes and EDN (and the organizer of several…

• 6 min read
design team of the year , palladium z1 , Palladium , ace awards , Emulation , Breakfast Bytes , ubm

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 9th to 13th 2017

https://youtu.be/33fiVk2BoKo Coming from Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas at during…

• less than a min read
security , risc-v , ACE award , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , Palladium , encryption , privacy , esd alliance

Breakfast Bytes

MediaTek's Experience with Perspec

At CDNLive in Taiwan last year, MediaTek presented their experiences with Perspec…

• 3 min read
CDNLive , Perspec , cdnlive taiwan , mediatek , System Verifier , Breakfast Bytes

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? Vince’s Favorite Usability Features! (Reason 10…

Most of the PCB designers I know are creatures of habit just like I was... we…

• 7 min read
Allegro 17.2 , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , Why Move Up to 17.2

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM: Coventor Panel on BEOL Challenges

At the recent IEDM in San Francisco, Coventor organized a panel titled BEOL Barricades…

• 6 min read
tokyo electron , cobalt , copper , Samsung , Lam Research , Coventor , GlobalFoundries , beol , umc , rubidium , Breakfast Bytes , liner

Verification

Bugs, Problems, Issues, and Features

There’s no better way to demonstrate the value of a verification tool than to find…

• 3 min read
performance , uvm , pswg , Functional Verification , Perspec , OVM , issue , bug , feature , Accellera , Problem , portable stimulus
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