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Cadence Welcomes Ausdia and TimeVision Timing Constraints Management Solution

We're delighted to welcome Ausdia to Cadence. Effective April 16, 2026, Ausdia's…

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digital design , Digital Design and Signoff , featured , Tempus timing solution , Timing analysis

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The Rise of the Autonomous Engineer

Agentic AI in engineering has moved from concept to reality at remarkable speed.…

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featured , agentic ai , NVIDIA , AI-Driven Design , AI for design

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Cadence CEO Outlines the Path to the CMOS 2.0 Era at IMEC ITF World 2026

At this year's ITF World 2026 in Antwerp, Belgium, global technology leaders gathered…

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• 4 min read
CMOS 2.0 , featured , imec , AI for design , XTCO

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Welcoming EMA Design Automation and FlowCAD to Cadence

We're excited to share that the EMA Design Automation and FlowCAD teams have joined…

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featured , Ultra Librarian , EMA , System Design and Analysis
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TSMC Museum of Innovation

When I was in Taiwan for CDNLive Taiwan, I visited the TSMC Museum of Innovation…

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TSMC , museum , tsmc museum of innovation

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Six Things to Do Before You Actually Place Components…

It's a PCB you are designing. Where do you start? What can you do to make your process…

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PCB Editor

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Choosing the Right Netlist to Match Your Needs

Netlists. Everyone needs them! But what you are using your netlist for can have a…

• 4 min read
APD , IC Packaging & SiP design , SiP Layout

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CDNLive India 2019 Preview

CDNLive India is coming up next week. It will be August 28 and 29 at the Radisson…

• 4 min read
CDNLive India , CDNLive , bengaluru

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HOT CHIPS 2019

This week is HOT CHIPS. It has moved from the Flint Center at De Anza College, where…

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hot chips

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuosity: ADE What’s New 中文版上线!

您知道当您有感情需要抒发时，脱口而出便是母语。想知道为什么吗？这是我们与生俱来的本能。我们一般使用英语作为商业通用语言，但是我敢打赌，如果换成是自己的母语，大家会感到更开心舒适…

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Chinese blog , Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , ADE , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , ADE Verifier , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Here's All You Must Know to Create a TILP

Did you get a chance to look at the outstanding posts about Technology Independent…

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ICADVM18.1 , Virtuoso New Design Platform , video , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF , RF design , TILP , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , technology

System, PCB, & Package Design 

DATA Pulse: Playing Favorites with Parts—Influencing Design Part Selection with a…

Life is full of decisions - what college major to opt for, which career path to follow…

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allegro edm , PCB design

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Sunday Brunch Video for 18th August 2019

https://youtu.be/xGAnEry49nw Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Arm on…

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sunday brunch

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

Ken的博客系列之二 | 千兆位串行链路接口的SI方法

作者：Ken Willis 上一篇：通过“自上而下”的方法将SI推向上游 假设我们正在致力于PCI Express Gen 4串行链路的研发，数据的传输速率为16Gbps…

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SI , Chinese blog , ddr5 , DDR4 , IBIS-AMI , 中文 , SerDes , Sigrity , SystemSI , 信号完整性 , SI分析与建模

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Maglev Trains

Earlier this week I was in Shanghai for CDNLive China. More about what was said there…

• 7 min read
cdnlive china , maglev , Shanghai

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Automated Device Placement and Routing - Grid Generation

This blog, the third one in the Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing series…

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ICADVM18.1 , Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing , VPR , Automatic Placement , Advanced Node , Virtuoso Placer , Layout EXL , APR , Auto P&R , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Virtuoso Placement , Custom IC

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Black Hat: Glitching Microcontrollers

As a paid-up member of the semiconductor community, the most interesting presentation…

• 5 min read
microcontrollers , black hat , glitch

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CDNLive Taiwan 2019

I haven't been to Taiwan since the last time I worked for Cadence in the early 2000s…

• 5 min read
CDNLive , cdnlive taiwan

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - An Introduction to Palladium Cloud

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Bennet Le provides an overview of the…

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Whiteboard Wednesdays , Cloud-based Design , Palladium XP , palladium cloud

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Grouping Items with Symbol Instances

Whether you’re adding lines, text, shapes, routing elements, or any other feature…

• 4 min read
IC Packaging , SiP Layout

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Five Ways to View Your Design in 3D Canvas

Five simple yet effective ways to increase efficiency by selecting the right objects…

• 3 min read
3D Canvas , 3d view , PCB Editor , 3D , 3D viewer

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Black Hat: Phishing on Gmail

A few weeks ago I wrote a post Passwords and Multi-Factor Authentication about the…

• 4 min read
security , black hat , google , phishing

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Arm on Autonomous Automotive

Let me start this post with a brief history of autonomous driving. Most people date…

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Automotive , autonomous , ADAS , ARM
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