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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

Corporate News

Ambarella Redefines Edge AI Performance with Cadence

Ambarella stands at the forefront of edge AI processing, pioneering low-power, high…

Corporate
• 4 min read
Edge AI , featured , Ambarella

Corporate News

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
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Breakfast Bytes

Can Computers Think? Or Understand Chinese?

I have been working with computers for a long time. I first learned to program in…

• 5 min read
searle , artificial intelligence , Chinese room , Turing test , neural nets , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview December 12th to 16th

https://youtu.be/wtOOIg32ma8 Monday: Lip-Bu Tan is honored by GSA with the Maurice…

• less than a min read
risc-v , codasip , IBM , branko's elephant chart , Samsung , TSMC , gf , Lip-Bu Tan , silicon photonics , photonics , gsa , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , IEDM , maurice chang

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM: The Big Decisions for 5nm

The Sunday of IEDM there were two all-day short courses . The one I attended was…

• 6 min read
SADP , gas , contact liner , horizontal nanowire , lelele , lex , 193i lithography , cobalt , copper , contact , LELE , FinFET , 5nm , le2 , nanowire , vertical nanowire , le3 , EUV , IEDM , gate all around , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—What's New with PCI Express Gen4

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the last of a 3-part series, Lana Chan…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , PCIe Gen4 , PCIe

Verification

Perspectives on Developing EDA Standards

Last week, my colleague Paul McLellan published a blog post on the standardization…

• 4 min read
uvm , 1394 , pswg , Perspec , OVM , USB , IEEE 1500 , Accellera , VCX , VCi , PCI , portable stimulus

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Extending Trunks for Selected Nets While Routing

You must have come across and experienced the capabilities of Pin to Trunk routing…

• 3 min read
Pin to Trunk , Virtuoso Space-based Router , Trunk Extending , Virtuoso Video Diary , Extending Trunks , Custom IC Design

Verification

Bluetooth 5: Making Your Smart Home a Reality

We all know the futuristic vision of the world just around the corner. The vision…

• 3 min read
Verification IP , Bluetooth Low Energy , IoT , VIP , BLE , Tensilica , design , mobile , and Verification IP , Bluetooth 5 , Bluetooth 5.0 , Smart Home

Breakfast Bytes

James Adams Talks About How Raspberry Pi Was Designed

I wrote recently about Eben Upton's presentation about the genesis of business-card…

• 4 min read
ARM Techcon , Raspberry Pi , raspberry pi foundation , raspberry pi 3 , OrCAD , Sigrity , Breakfast Bytes , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

RISC-V Available in Silicon

One of the announcements at the recent RISC-V workshop was by SiFive . This is the…

• 4 min read
risc-v , freedom everywhere 310 , hifive1 , open source hardware , fe310 , open source , Arduino , Breakfast Bytes , sifive

Analog/Custom Design

Analog Design Resonance: Playing with Violation Filters

We'd like to welcome guest writer Yanyan Qiao from our Cadence Japan AE team. Many…

• 2 min read
Explorer , asserts , ADE XL , Virtuoso ADE , Assembler , device checks

Breakfast Bytes

RISC-V 5th Workshop Highlights

The fifth (V th ?) RISC-V workshop took place this week at Google in Mountain View…

• 5 min read
risc-v , codasip , risc-v foundation , isa , Breakfast Bytes , sifive

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview December 5th to 9th

https://youtu.be/IAPCDXodsno Monday: James Adams of the Raspberry Pi foundation…

• less than a min read
risc-v , Raspberry Pi , hifive1 , 5 nanometer , Chinese room , OrCAD , 5nm , computer consciousness , IEDM , sifive , computer thought , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

The Internet of Space

At EDPS back in May (yes, I know I'm behind), Andrew Filo talked about Building the…

• 3 min read
kicksat-2 , EDPS , femto-satellite , space , NASA , internet of space , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

Creating Code from Tables

Some things are best described with tables—each column shows the values for one category…

• 6 min read
Specman , Tables , e , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Protium: FPGA Prototyping the Cadence Way

I attended a recent workshop on Protium titled Accelerating Embedded Software Development…

• 4 min read
TTP , Protium , FPGA prototyping , time to prototype , Breakfast Bytes , FPGA , verification

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Bluetooth 5: Making Mobile Connectivity Seamless in an IoT…

Tired of struggling with pairing your Bluetooth devices and getting them to work…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IoT , range limitations , bluetooth , Internet of Things , mobile , Bluetooth 5 , connectivity

Breakfast Bytes

Portable Stimulus Standard

There is an Accellera working group that is developing a portable stimulus standard…

• 7 min read
54dac , DVcon , Accellera , pss , Breakfast Bytes , portable stimulus standard

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM in December—7nm Announcements

Soon it is the International Electron Devices Meeting. It takes place in San Francisco…

• 4 min read
extreme ultra violet , iedm 2016 , IBM , Samsung , TSMC , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , EUV , IEDM

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 28th to December 2nd

https://youtu.be/CUGTiPJQjuI Monday: My preview of IEDM which includes 7nm…

• less than a min read
risc-v , IBM , 7 nanometer , Perspec , Protium , Samsung , TSMC , gf , risc-v workshop , iOS , FPGA prototyping , femto-satellite , GlobalFoundries , pss , internet of space , IEDM , portable stimulus standard
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