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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…

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

Cadence Japan

境界を越えて、未来を組み上げろ―ホンダ×ケイデンス

「AIは、物理世界にどう根付いていくのか？」をテーマに、本田技術研究所社 先進技術研究所（HGRX）との対談を通じて、AIと半導体の未来、フィジカルAIの可能性…

Cadence Japan
• less than a min read
Automotive , featured , physical ai , automotive electronics , japanese blog

SoC and IP

Powering Scale Up and Scale Out with 224G SerDes for UALink and Ultra Ethernet

As AI workloads grow in scale and complexity, networks are challenged to keep up…

Sheryl G
• 3 min read
Design IP , featured , 224G-LR , 224G SerDes , UALink

Corporate News

AI Infra Summit Highlights: Cadence's Unique Design for AI and AI for Design

The AI Infra Summit 2025 was a great experience that left attendees buzzing with…

Corporate
• 7 min read
featured , AI Infra Summit 2025 , AI for design , Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform , design for AI
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SoC and IP

Update on Viking’s SATADIMM SSD--no cable needed, Sandforce SSD controller

Previously, I wrote about Viking’s SATADIMM, an SSD built into a standard DDR DIMM…

• 1 min read

Verification

Users Employ Specman Constrained-Random Verification for Complex IP

Two recent customer examples have shown the effectiveness of Specman constrained…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , Specman , metric driven verification (MDV) , Cadence VIP portfolio , VIP , Coverage-Driven Verification , EDA , Funcional Verification , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , AOP , IES-XL

SoC and IP

Rice University reports that silicon oxide also good for memristors

Hot on the heels of the announcement earlier this week that Hynix is now an active…

• less than a min read

Verification

Performance Tips and Tricks: Coding e Ports for Enhanced Performance

This blog entry builds on last week's Tips and Tricks posting in which we discussed…

• 3 min read
IntelliGen , Specman , vr_ad , OVM-e , Funcional Verification , team specman , AOP , IES-XL

SoC and IP

The 6-minute video guide to memristors (must-see video)

With the August 31 announcement that Hynix is now working with HP to bring the semi…

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SoC and IP

Chemical vapor deposition creates improved material for PCM (phase-change memory…

Yesterday, semiconductor materials manufacturing specialist ATMI and Ovonics, the…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

Commodore and its iconic all-in-one computers resurrected with new guts, including…

Everyone familiar with the arc of personal computers knows Commodore. The calculator…

• 1 min read

Verification

Join Us at FMCAD October 20-23

Are you deeply interested in formal and assertion-based verification technology?…

• less than a min read
Alok Jain , ABV , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , FMCAD , IEV , IFV

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About AMS Simulator New Design Templates? They’re in the SPB16.3 Release

What's Good About AMS Simulator New Design Templates? They're in the SPB16.3 Release…

• 1 min read
SPB16.3 , AMS , AMS simulator , SPB 16.3 , PSPICE , AMS simulation , Design Entry , Schematic

Verification

All I Really Need to Know About MDV I Learned From Hollywood - Part 2

My last blog entry began a series using quotes from Hollywood movies to illustrate…

• 2 min read
vPlan , verification planning , Verification IP modeling , metric-driven verification , MDV

SoC and IP

HP’s memristor finds a commercial semiconductor vendor: Hynix

The rumor at the recent Flash Memory Summit held earlier this month was that HP was…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

Toshiba 24nm, 64-Gbit NAND Flash: Just a silly nanometer shorter

Toshiba announced today that it has initiated mass production of NAND Flash memories…

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SoC and IP

17 SSDs reviewed by Tom’s Hardware

We’re still at the stage where there can be appreciable differences in the performance…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

Huawei talks Smart Memory at Hot Chips 22: “The only practical solution”

Last week saw the 22nd Hot Chips conference, held at held Stanford University, and…

• 3 min read

SoC and IP

A non-exhaustive list of 150 SSD vendors

A recent check of the Yahoo! Finance boards showed some skepticism about my previous…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

PCM (now with carbon nanotubes!) programming current drops two orders of magnitu…

A fascinating Masters thesis written by Feng Xiong details the fabrication and testing…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

Seagate and Samsung to jointly develop enterprise-class SSD controller -- a little…

A bit more than a week ago, HDD leader Seagate and NAND Flash leader Samsung jointly…

• 1 min read

Verification

All I Really Need to Know About MDV I Learned From Hollywood - Part 1

True story: this series of blog posts is inspired by a dream. I recently gave a presentation…

• 3 min read
vPlan , verification planning , Verification IP modeling , metric-driven verification , MDV

SoC and IP

8 key takeaways for system design teams from the Flash Memory Summit

Cadence’s Senior Manager of Technical Communications and a longtime EDA observer…

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