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Cadence Giving Foundation Leads a Day of Collective Community Impact

On June 25, the Cadence Giving Foundation brought together an extraordinary coalition…

Corporate
• 2 min read
Cadence Giving Foundation , featured , san jose , Collective Impact Day , City Year Bay Area

Corporate News

The Three Phases of AI Adoption

Artificial intelligence is often discussed as if the industry is moving through a…

Corporate
• 6 min read
featured , infrastructure ai , agentic ai , physical ai , sciences ai

Corporate News

Finding What Truly Moves You: Honoring Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

"Finding what truly moves you is happiness. Success is measured in the lasting impact…

Corporate
• 2 min read
featured , EDA , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , UC Berkeley

Corporate News

Accelerating Drug Discovery with Agentic AI and Computational Science

By Louis Culot, corporate vice president and general manager, Cadence Molecular Sciences…

Corporate
• 3 min read
drug discovery , Cadence Molecular Sciences , featured , agentic ai , NVIDIA
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System-Level Functional Verification and Power Analysis

With DAC and other events during May and June, I am only now wrapping up stuff I…

• 2 min read
Functional Verification , Power Analysis , system level functional verification , system level power analysis

System, PCB, & Package Design 

10 Top Reasons to Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016 Release

The Allegro 17.2-2016 release , the largest in the past 10 years, became available…

• 8 min read
Constraint-driven PCB Design flow , Allegro 17.2 , Allegro GUI , Routing , Constraint Manager , Rigid-Flex , OrCAD , Sigrity , Allegro PCB Editor , Why Move Up to 17.2 , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

200mm Fabs Awaken

Modern fabs use 300mm (12") wafers. Older fabs have used 200mm (8") wafers since…

• 5 min read
semicon west , semi , fab outlook , 200mm , semi/gartner symposum

SoC and IP

Needs of Energy-Efficient Networking While Using 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Growing deployment level of 10 Gigabit Ethernet in datacenters and automotive infotainment…

• 1 min read
10G-KR , Ethernet

Verification

Doing Away With the Docking Station

My docking station with the rat’s nest of wires dangling from behind it could be…

• 2 min read
USB 3.0 , Verification IP , Docking station , Tensilica Design and Verification IP , VIP , DisplayPort , USB , power delivery , USB3.0 , USB 2.0 , Type-C , USB connector , Alternate Mode , USB 3.1

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Snake Router? The 16.6-2015 Release Has Several…

With the 16.6-2015 Allegro PCB Editor release, the Snake pattern router can be enabled…

• 3 min read
PCB , PCB Layout and routing , Allegro 16.6 , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Economic Uncertainty, the Global Economy and Semiconductors

The Monday before SEMICON West starts, there are two events that run in parallel…

• 4 min read
semi/gartner symposium , semicon west , gartner , semi , hilltop economics , Breakfast Bytes

Analog/Custom Design

IEEE Recognition of Cadence Software at DAC 2016

Cadence was awarded with the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award—EDA’s most…

• less than a min read
best paper award , DAC , Virtuoso , IEEE

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Applying Deep Learning to Our Daily Lives

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Samer Hijazi discusses bringing deep…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , deep learning , Samer Hijazi , Tensilica , embedded

Breakfast Bytes

Linley Mobile Conference...and That ARM Deal

This year's Linley Mobile and Wearables Conference is coming up next week on July…

• 4 min read
softbank , Linley , Linley Mobile & Wearables Conference , ARM , Breakfast Bytes

SoC and IP

PCI Express Trends and News at PCI-SIG 2016

PCI-SIG Developers Conference 2016 is now history, taking place at the Santa Clara…

• 1 min read
PCIe Gen4 , 10G-KR , SerDes , PCI Express

Breakfast Bytes

Softbank Buys ARM for $32B

Over the weekend it seems that Softbank has closed a deal to acquire ARM Holdings…

• 4 min read
softbank , Mobile World Congress , ARM , sprint

Breakfast Bytes

The Future of Neural Networks...and Our Robot Overlords

Chris Rowen, the CTO of the Cadence IP group, wrapped up the recent seminar in Las…

• 4 min read
open datasets , training , neural networks , data scientist , privacy , CNN , Breakfast Bytes

Academic Network

Meet the Winners of Tensilica Xtensa Embedded DSP Design Contest India 2016

The winners of the Tensilica Xtensa Embedded DSP Design Contest have been announced…

• 1 min read
Cadence Academic Network , Bangladesh , Tensilica , Xtensa Design Contest , India

Breakfast Bytes

Hierarchical Neural Networks

The German Traffic Sign Benchmark actually has the signs divided into groups: speed…

• 3 min read
neural networks , CNN , hierarchical neural networks

Verification

Fine Tuning of Coverage Model Definition

Functional Coverage is one of the main means to measure the quality and progress…

• 8 min read
funtional verification , Specman , coverage , Functional Verification , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , e , e language , Funcional Verification , team specman , Verification IP modeling , metric-driven verification , MDV

Academic Network

Cadence Academic Network in Poland

Poland is a country with long tradition in microelectronics education and research…

• 2 min read
university , Cadence Academic Network , Poland , university program

Academic Network

PRIME and SMACD Conferences in Lisbon

Cadence Academic Network is supporting for years PRIME (PhD Research in Microelectronics…

• 2 min read
Cadence Academic Network , academic workshop , ADE , Virtuoso

Breakfast Bytes

How to Optimize Your CNN

Convolutional neural nets (CNNs) are not programmed in the traditional sense, but…

• 4 min read
Low Power , cnn training , cnn optimization , neural networks , CNN , embedded neural nets
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