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How the New ASK AI Assistant Makes Support More Seamless

Finding the right answer often takes more than one question. Users may start with…

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• 2 min read
featured , customer support , Generative AI , ASK Portal , ASK AI Assitant

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

You'll Still Do the Work—You Just Won't Do the Boring Part

Agentic AI is about to change your flow. Here's what actually shifts—and why the…

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• 5 min read
artificial intelligence , featured , agentic ai , NVIDIA , AI for design

Life at Cadence

Cadence Giving Foundation Leads a Day of Collective Community Impact

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

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• 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…

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

Verification is a Sprint and a Marathon!

Verification engineers have updated an old adage to discribe their projects: Verification…

• 1 min read
performance , SystemVerilog , Functional Verification , OVM , Low-Power , Multi-Core , Incisive , Simulation acceleration , IES

Verification

CDNLive San Jose 2009 for the Specmaniac

Even sooner than the EU ClubTs is CDNLive San Jose 2009 , where this year the event…

• 3 min read
SystemVerilog , Low Power , Specman , HW/SW , CDNLive , OVM ML , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , OVM , VIP , MDV techtorial , OVM e Enterprise Planner , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , Incisive , OVM SV , e , Enterprise Manager , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , Plan and metrics management , multi-language , ClubT , SystemC , eRM , ESL , OVM SC , Coverage Driven Verification , IES-XL

Verification

EU Specmaniacs: ClubTs Are Coming in 2 Weeks!

EU-based Specmaniacs and "Trailblazers" rejoice: the annual ClubT series is back…

• 2 min read
IEEE 1647 , events , IntelliGen , Low Power , Specman , HW/SW , OVM ML , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , OVM , VIP , OVM e , Mixed Signal Verification , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , Incisive , e , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , ClubT , SystemC , ESL , IES-XL , Trailblazer

Verification

Must Have Advanced Verification to Achieve Software Signoff

In a recent blog on EDA Graffiti, Paul McClellan he talks about Software Signoff…

• 2 min read
EDA Graffiti , System Design and Verification , embedded isx , software signoff

Verification

Specman 9.2 Preview: A Fresh Profile on the Profiler

[Preface: all features in the 9.2 preview series are in Beta now. We invite you to…

• 2 min read
performance , Specman , Functional Verification , e , team specman , IES-XL

Verification

Twitter-like Growth For Verification's Trailblazers? (a/k/a A Trailblazer hat tip…

I'm not proud to admit that I reacted with envy to the news that Twitter just received…

• 2 min read
events , Specman , CDNLive , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , IBM , VIP , MDV techtorial , DVClub , Enterprise Manager , Enterprise Planner , team specman , DVcon , Twitter , ARM , MDV , verification , Trailblazer

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro's Component Placement Changes? - More Features in SPB16

In the SPB16.2 release of Allegro PCB Editor , there are two (2) new very helpful…

• 3 min read
SPB 16.2 , Placement Replication , Component Alignment , Allegroro , PCB design

Verification

What's the New CMO Mean For Cadence and System Design and Verification?

If you track Cadence stock or other EDA leadership news you undoubtedly know we've…

• 1 min read
ASIC , TLM , System Design and Verification , John Bruggeman , software , embedded , FPGA

Verification

Upcoming ARM Techcon3 or is it Techcon Cubed?

The annual ARM Developers' Conference has been renamed ARM techcon3 , or maybe it…

• less than a min read
techon3 , Cypress , ARM , ESL , System Design and Verification

Verification

Specman-Matlab Package Update

[Preface: we interrupt the Specman 9.2 Preview series to notify you of an update…

• 3 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , C , e , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , ESL , Matlab , IES-XL

Verification

Back to School and Back to the Embedded Software Challenge

The kids have a week of school in the rear view mirror and it's time to get back…

• 3 min read
DAC , System Design and Verification , virual platform

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso ADE

After delving into lots of new features in the Virtuoso Schematic Editor, the Library…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Eye Masks in PCB SI? You'll Need SPB16.2 to See!

Eye masks let you specify the acceptable parameters for what an eye should look like…

• 3 min read
SPB 16.2 , Signal Intregrity , SigWave , Allegroro , PCB design

Verification

Incisive Enterprise Simulator: Low-Power Verification at Warp Speed

Since your circuit always runs at low-power, your verification should too. To get…

• 2 min read
funtional verification , CPF , Low-Power , Incisive , IES

Verification

Requirements for a Student Version of Specman/IES-XL?

Allow me to interrupt my blogging on MarCom and DAC to pose a question inspired by…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , Specman , Functional Verification , student version , Incisive , e , SystemC , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES-XL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Split Parts in AMS Simulator? More Features in SPB16.2!

This new SPB16.2 feature allows Allegro AMS Simulator (PSpice) customers to simulate…

• 1 min read
SPB 16.2 , Allegroro AMS Simulator (PSpice) , PCB design , Allegro

Verification

Specman 9.2 Preview: Shortened “When Subtype” Declarations

[Preface: all features in the 9.2 preview series are in Beta now. We invite you to…

• 2 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , AOP , IES-XL

Digital Design

Lost and Found: Missing Filler Cells, Power Vias, and Highlighted Objects

Have you ever gotten to signoff DRC and found that there was a small area where a…

• 2 min read
power vias , filler cells , highlighted objects , checkFiller , 8.1 , Digital Implementation , verifyPowerVia , "SoC-Encounter" , F9

Verification

Wedding at DAC '09: CDNS+IBM's Enterprise Verification Management Solution

Does the union of verification automation and IT+source code management tools get…

• less than a min read
DAC , Tivoli , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , IBM , Enterprise Manager , Enterprise Planner , MDV , Rational , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES-XL
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