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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…

Corporate
• 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…

Corporate
• 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…

Corporate
• 2 min read
featured , Ultra Librarian , EMA , System Design and Analysis
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Carry: Babbage's Engines

Yesterday's post Carry: From Logarithms to Mechanical Calculators talked about how…

• 4 min read
carry , analytical engine , difference engine , Babbage

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuoso视频日记：创建和预览激励

在接下来的几周内，Virtuosity和Virtuoso视频日记博客将重点关注 Virtuoso® ADE Assembler , Virtuoso® ADE Explorer…

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , ADE Explorer , stimuli form , stimuli , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , ViVA , Virtuosity , ADE Blog Series , Custom IC Design , ADE Assembler

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Carry: From Logarithms to Mechanical Calculators

I hope you had a great July 4th long weekend if you are in the US...and if you were…

• 6 min read
carry , ripple carry

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Sunday Brunch Video for 7th July 2019

https://youtu.be/re7U6Rg0MHA Made at Cadence charge station (camera Sean) Monday…

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sunday brunch

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Vary Your Assembled Packages, Not Your Databases

Design variants are a common phenomenon, whether you design package substrates or…

• 7 min read
IC Packaging , APD , SiP Layout

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Off-topic: Geography

It's the day before a holiday so Breakfast Bytes goes completely off-topic as usual…

• 4 min read
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System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers - Guest Roll: Anatomy of a Good Testcase

Rik Lee, the author of today's post, is a PCB Designer with more than 35 years experience…

• 5 min read
APD , PCB Editor , SiP Layout

System, PCB, & Package Design 

DATA Pulse: Know How to Effectively Manage Part Obsolescence (Part 2 of 2)

In part 1 of this two-part blog post, we analyzed how you can define a parts lifecycle…

• 1 min read
Library and design data management , EDM , PCB design

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It's Beyond HOT at ES Design West Next Week

There are two famous parties in the EDA world. The Denali Party by Cadence, of course…

• 4 min read
semicon west , semi , HOT , hot party , es design west

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: TILP! What’s a TILP?

I have been breathing IC layout design for the last 38 years! Proliferating new Cadence…

• 4 min read
PCells , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF , Independent , Solution , Multitech , TILP , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , technology

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NXP: Self-Driving Cars: What's the Payoff for Carmakers?

I recently attended NXP's Silicon Valley event called NXPConnect. Kurt Sievers, the…

• 9 min read
Automotive , autonomous driving , ADAS

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Sunday Brunch Video for 30th June 2019

https://youtu.be/WhHvvmwE9Tw Made at Tsukuda Fruit Stand opposite building 9 (camera…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

IPC-2581标准相较于旧式通用标准的特点及优势

本文转载自Sierra Circuit网站： https://www.protoexpress.com/ 。 space 本文中，IPC-2581标准的全行业推进者Hemant…

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , ECAD , PCB设计 , 中文 , IPC-2581

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuosity: 运行计划中的新功能 - 第二部分

我在第一部分中写了关于Virtuoso ADE Assembler运行计划功能的最新增强功能。此博客继续关注自IC6.1.7 ISR15以来增加的其他增强功能。

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Chinese blog , ICADV12.3 , custom/analog , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , calibration , Virtuoso , Run Plan , IC6.1.7 , Custom IC Design , Custom IC , IC6.1.8

Analog/Custom Design

Spectre Tech Tips: Spectre APS Save Overview - Part 2

As an analog/mixed-signal designer, verification engineer, or CAD expert, you use…

• 6 min read
save statement , spectre aps , device terminal naming , subcktiprobes , device terminal calculation , ports , filter , time_window , exclude , depth , useprobes , subcktprobelvl , useterms , subckt , subcircuit terminal current calculation

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Aerospace: the View from Paris

I was recently at the Paris Air Show. Despite it sounding like the sort of event…

• 4 min read

Breakfast Bytes

DAC: Digital Lunch Does Not Mean Finger Food

The Cadence lunch on Tuesday was the turn of digital with the panel set to consider…

• 6 min read
digital design , artificial intelligence , ml , deep learning , dl , machine learning , AI

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DAC: Opening Lunchboxes and Closing Mixed-Signal Verification

The analog/mixed-signal lunch at DAC got moved to Monday this year, since we had…

• 7 min read
DAC , analog , mixed signal , 56dac , spectre x

The India Circuit

The 5G Revolution: Viewpoints from Qualcomm, NXP, and MediaTek

A few weeks ago, Cadence hosted an interesting panel discussion that talked about…

• 3 min read
5G , NXP Semiconductor , Cadence India , Qualcomm , mediatek
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