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Explore Photonics and Quantum Technologies at CadenceCONNECT 2025

The intersection of photonics and quantum computing marks a pivotal moment in advancing…

Vinod Khera
• 1 min read
Quantum States , featured , cadenceconnect , photonics , Quantum Technology

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR16 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR16 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 2 min read
IC 23.1 , featured , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release , Virtuoso

SoC and IP

The Next-Generation UCIe IP Subsystem for Advanced Package Designs

With the rapidly increasing connectivity demands driven by AI/ML and HPC/data center…

MBhatnagar
• 3 min read
ucie , Design IP , featured , TSMC , die-to-die

Corporate News

Cadence at the TSMC OIP: Pioneering the Future of Semiconductor Design

The semiconductor industry stands at a pivotal moment. As we push toward more advanced…

Corporate
• 3 min read
OIP , featured , 3D-IC , 3DIC , TSMC
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The India Circuit

Indian Airports Go High Tech

No more printed tickets. Shorter queues at check-in counters. Humanoid robots walking…

• 3 min read
Kempegowda International Airport , aadhaar , Airports Authority of India , KIAL , KEMPA , Priyank Kharge

Verification

PCI-SIG Developer's Conference: What's New with Gen 5 and When Will it be Adopted…

The release of PCIe 4.0 rev 1.0 in October 2017 was anticlimactic after the announcement…

• 3 min read
controller IP , Verification IP , PCIe Gen4 , PHY , PCIe , PCIe Gen5 , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Heinz Nixdorf's Legacy in Paderborn

I read somewhere that the largest computer museum in the world is the Heinz Nixdorf…

• 6 min read
paderborn , museum , heinz nixdorf museumsforum , nixdorf

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Verification Deliverables Required for Successful SoC In…

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, YJ Patil explains the importance of having a…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP-XACT , Functional Verification , IP integration

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 11th to 15th 2018

https://youtu.be/IYm-CauwKTo Coming from Yerevan Armenia (camera Jack Darrow)…

• less than a min read
dac55 , chipestimate , Raspberry Pi , cloud , baumol's cost disease , FinFET , EUV , FD-SOI

Verification

RAK Attack: Verifying Power Intent for Low Power Mixed Signal SoCs

The wait is finally over—the Rapid Adoption Kit (RAK) for verifying the power intent…

• 2 min read
Low Power , Functional Verification , RAK , power intent , mixed signal

Breakfast Bytes

A Computer Scientist Takes a Look at Mechanical Security

I wrote recently about visiting The Tech in San Jose. One of the exhibits showed…

• 8 min read
security , master key

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Designing a PCB in Harmony with Your 3D Extraction Expert

You know who we are talking about. The guy in the corner with all the PhDs hanging…

• 1 min read
SI , 3D EM , High Speed Structure Optimization , 3D EM HSSO , 3D EM High Speed Structure Optimizer , Signal Integrity , 3D , HSSO , Sigrity , System Serial Link , Allegro

Verification

App Note Spotlight: Streamline Your SystemVerilog Code, Part II - SystemVerilog …

Welcome back to a special multi-part edition of the App Note Spotlight, where we…

• 2 min read
performance , SystemVerilog , Functional Verification , xcelium simulator

Breakfast Bytes

TI Flies Pegasus in the Clouds

Kyle Peavy of Texas Instruments reported on their experience with Pegasus, Cadence…

• 5 min read
Physical verification , CDNLive , pegasus , cloud , Texas Instruments

Breakfast Bytes

Samsung Foundry Forum: 10, 8, 7, EUV, 5, 4, GAA, 3...

Last week was the Samsung Foundry Forum. Almost exactly a year ago, Samsung reorganized…

• 13 min read
3nm , Samsung , gaa , samsung foundry forum , sff , 5nm , 7nm , EUV

Verification

Empowering Generation - Range Generated Fields (RGF)

Specman constraints solver process consists of a series of reductions and assignments…

• 8 min read
Specman , Specman/e , Generation , e language , Constraints

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: How to Run a Multi-Technology Simulation (MTS)?

Are you looking for some hands-on experience with running multi-technology simulation…

• 3 min read
ADE Explorer , Explorer , Rapid Adoption Kit , Virtuoso , Spectre , ADE-XL , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , Assembler , ADE Assembler

Breakfast Bytes

It'll be HOT on Sunday Evening at DAC

For several DACs now, Heart of Technology (HOT) has run a party on Monday night.…

• 2 min read
DAC , HOT , Heart of Technology , Gary Smith , sjsu

Breakfast Bytes

7 Ways to Get the Most out of DAC

DAC, the Design Automation Conference, is coming up. It's Sunday June 24th to Thursday…

• 7 min read
DAC , dac2018 , 55DAC

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - The Advantages and Trade-offs of HBM2 and GDDR6

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Marc Greenberg discusses the advantages and…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , Memory , HBM

Breakfast Bytes

If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium. My First Visit to imec

Outside of semiconductor, Belgium is famous for three things: beer, chocolate, and…

• 6 min read
Memory , 3D NAND , imec , DRAM , RRAM , belgium , MRAM , EUV , DTCO

Breakfast Bytes

Aren't All Crosswords Cryptic?

It's Memorial Day, so Breakfast Bytes is off today. Well, obviously not completely…

• 3 min read
off-topic , crossword

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Bridging Virtuoso and Mixed-Signal Simulation Tools Using …

Cadence has introduced Command-Line IP Selector (CLIPS) support to provide a bridge…

• 2 min read
custom/analog , Mixed-Signal , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design
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