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Cadence RTL Design Studio: Built for the Full PPAC Journey

If you've used Joules RTL Design Studio, you already know what it can do. Now it…

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• 2 min read
Digital Design and Signoff , featured , Joules , Digital Implementation , rtlstudio

Corporate News

How the New ASK AI Assistant Makes Support More Seamless

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

Corporate
• 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…

Corporate
• 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…

Corporate
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Cadence Giving Foundation , featured , san jose , Collective Impact Day , City Year Bay Area
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Verification

Intel vs ARM - Did the Embedded Systems Conference India Shed Light on the Battle…

Being a Brit, Cricket is never very far from my thoughts especially when travelling…

• 2 min read
Intel , Low Power , System Design and Verification , embedded software , ARM

Digital Design

5 Fascinating People I Met at the 2009 Design Automation Conference

As much as the Design Automation Conference (DAC) is about demonstrating solution…

• 5 min read
DAC , Digital Implementation

Verification

Post-DAC 2009 Survey on The XJTAG Girls

One non-technology item that received an extraordinary buzz at DAC 2009 were the…

• 1 min read
DAC , Functional Verification

Verification

1st Ever Virtual Platform Workshop Deemed a Success

Yesterday DAC hosted the first ever Virtual Platform Workshop , a full day dedicated…

• 2 min read
DAC 2009 , virtual platform , System Design and Verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Cavity Support in APD? You'll see for yourself using the SPB16…

No - we're not talking teeth, candy, and cavities here ... Many customers have been…

• 3 min read
SPB 16.2 , APD , PCB design

Verification

Finding the Opportunities in ESL

I came to DAC 2009 looking for the industry trends in ESL, because as we all know…

• 2 min read
DAC 2009 , virtual platform , System Design and Verification , ESL High Level Synthesis

Verification

Day 1 of DAC is a Wrap

Well, it was a half day at DAC for me as I suffered a 2 hour flight delay from Minneapolis…

• 3 min read
DAC , TLM 2.0 , System C , OSCiI , System Design and Verification

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Customizing the Library Manager

I've told you in previous postings about some new features in Virtuoso IC6.1 which…

• 3 min read
IC 6.1 , Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design

Verification

Customer Questions About TLM-driven Design and Verification

In the latest blog published by Ron Wilson there were two questions about our TLM…

• 1 min read
System Design and Verification , TLM 2.0 , System C , C-to-Silicon , high level synthesis

Verification

DAC 2009 News: Specman 9.2 Highlights + Beta Program Invitation

Specmaniacs, With the start of DAC 2009, Team Specman is excited to finally be able…

• 1 min read
DAC , IntelliGen , Specman , Functional Verification , simvision , OVM e , e , SystemC , IES-XL

SoC and IP

Rethinking SSDs?

NAND Flash's SSD Vision: Wholesale replacement of HDDs by SSDs in the huge market…

• 7 min read

Verification

FSM Mnemonics Maps (Enums) in SimVision Using Verilog 1364

The mighty FSM – you first learned it when you were a young pup at University (some…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , debug , Functional Verification , simvision , Verilog , IES

Digital Design

Reducing Risk and Improving Productivity with the Cadence InCyte Chip Estimator and…

I'm looking forward to heading out to San Francisco next week for the 46th Design…

• 1 min read
DAC , Digital Implementation , Cadence InCyte Chip Estimator , Encounter Digital Implementation System 8.1

Verification

DAC '09 for the Specmaniac

The following are the "must see" items for Specmaniacs lucky enough to get travel…

• 3 min read
DAC , Specman , Functional Verification , OVM e , e , Mike Stellfox , Jason Andrews

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro's Placement Application Mode? - Look to SPB16.2 and See

In prior releases, Allegro PCB Editor does not provide the user the ability to place…

• 5 min read
Allegro 16.2 , PCB Editor , PCB design

Verification

At DAC Next Week

Yours truly will be at the big show next week, and I hope that all of you in the…

• 1 min read
DAC , Specman , Functional Verification , OVM , OVM e , DVcon

Verification

Simulation of Voltage Scaling for Dynamic Power Reduction

Some background info: In a previous blog , I introduced: DVFS (Dynamic Voltage…

• 2 min read
Low Power , Real Value Modeling , Functional Verification , Advanced Node , wreals , Mixed-Signal , Signal Integrity , verification

Verification

It's DAC Time Again!

By now, you've probably seen that Cadence is participating quite heavily in DAC this…

• 2 min read
DAC , Functional Verification , verification

Verification

Specman And The Cadence ESL+TLM News

Recently our colleagues on Team ESL announced a new TLM-Driven Design and Verification…

• 2 min read
IEEE 1647 , DAC , Specman , TLM , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , simvision , OVM e , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , eRM , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , ESL , AOP , IES-XL
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