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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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• 2 min read
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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• 5 min read
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

Corporate News

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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• 2 min read
featured , Ultra Librarian , EMA , System Design and Analysis
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System, PCB, & Package Design 

Exposing Adaptive EQ in 32 Gbps Receivers

It is no secret that serial link data rates have skyrocketed over the past 15 years…

• 1 min read
dfe , SI , FFE , DesignCon , Adaptive Equalization , AGC , IBIS-AMI , EQ , DesignCon 2019 , Signal Integrity , SerDes , Sigrity , SystemSI , Automatic Gain Control

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#learntocode

When a few hundred journalists were laid off recently, there was a lot of activity…

• 7 min read
computer science , learntocode

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RSA Cryptographers' Panel

One big highlight of the RSA conference is always The Cryptographers' Panel. This…

• 14 min read
security , rsa , cryptography

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: What Makes EM/IR Analysis A Significant Sign-Off Step?

This blog describes the EM and IR analyses in Virtuoso ADE as a design sign-off step…

• 3 min read
ADE Explorer , EM/IR , Power Integrity , IC layout , ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso Video Diary , sign-off , Custom IC Design , Custom IC , IC design , EMIR

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - 5G PHY Use Cases on B20

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Rong Chen talks about the 5G use cases…

• less than a min read
5G , B20 , Whiteboard Wednesdays , ConnX

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR2 and ICADVM18.1 ISR2 Now Available

The IC6.1.8 ISR2 and ICADVM18.1 ISR2 production releases are now available for download…

• 3 min read
ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso Space-based Router , ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Layout , Virtuoso , cadenceblogs , IC Release Blog , New in EDA , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC , IC6.1.8

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RSA: From Helen Mirren to Tina Fey

The RSA Security Conference that took place in the first week of March was bracketed…

• 4 min read
security , rsa , cryptography

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Allegro 3D Canvas—Visualize the Board as You Design

Today’s dense and complex PCB designs require realistic 3D view to investigate the…

• 3 min read
PCB , Layout , 3D , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Maestro Plotting Templates

Waveforms, plots, graphs, measurements, markers... are all a part and parcel of any…

• 3 min read
ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , ViVA , plotting templates , maestro plotting templates , Custom IC Design , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler

Breakfast Bytes

The World Wide Web Was Born 30 Years Ago This Month

In March 1989 at CERN, a guy called Tim-Berners Lee had an idea about how to get…

• 4 min read
Internet , tim-berners lee , CERN

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Sunday Brunch Video for 17th March 2019

https://youtu.be/b5eJJcHiOoY Made at Cadence building 9 lobby (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Breakfast Bytes

Domain-Specific Computing 3: Specialized Processors

The last two days' posts have looked at the development of general-purpose processors…

• 8 min read
domain specific computing , special purpose architectures , GPUs , Dark Silicon , Tensilica , ARM

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Domain-Specific Computing 2: The End of the Dark Ages

Yesterday looked at how general-purpose computer architecture changed during the…

• 5 min read
computer architecture , domain specific computing

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Teardrops and Tapers – Improving Manufacturability and Yield Automatically

Teardrops (also called fillets) are the blending area of a cline entry into a pad…

• 4 min read
PCB Layout and routing , IC Packaging and SiP Design , PCB Editor , Allegro PCB Editor

Breakfast Bytes

Domain-Specific Computing 1: The Dark Ages of Computer Architecture

This is the era of domain-specific computing. Or, to use the words of Dave Patterson…

• 8 min read
computer architecture , domain specific computing , moore's law

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Solving Scan Compression Congestion Issues with Modus 2D…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Rohit Kapur, Distinguished Engineer at…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , modus , Scan Compression

Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Buffet for February 2019

https://youtu.be/pNgkoWQE9A4 The three highlighted posts for February were: Who…

• less than a min read
Green Hills , Tensilica , 112g , buffet

Breakfast Bytes

MWC: Voice Enhancement, GPS, Ultrasound, and More

At the recent MWC Barcelona, the conference fka Mobile World Congress, Cadence had…

• 4 min read
alango , nestwave , MWC , Tensilica , sonarax

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Virtuosity: 着色数据是否与MPT流程兼容？

毋庸置疑，兼容的设计能提高公司的业绩和生产效率。任何不兼容的设计都会增加产品的设计周期。 为了便于高阶工艺节点设计中，工程师能创建与多重图形技术（MPT）相兼容的设计流程…

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , ICADVM18.1 , Advanced Node , Multiple Patterning Technology , Virtuoso , Coloring Engine , Custom IC Design , Layout Editing
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