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Samsung Foundry and Cadence Expand Infrastructure and Physical AI Solution

Today, AI infrastructure is driving a fundamental shift in semiconductor design.…

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• 7 min read
featured , chiplets , infrastructure ai , SF2P , physical ai

Corporate News

Cadence Certifies AI-Driven Reference Flows for Intel 18A-P and Intel 14A

The expanded Cadence-Intel Foundry collaboration delivers silicon-proven digital…

Corporate
• 3 min read
DAC , Design IP , featured , DAC 2026 , AI-Driven Design

Corporate News

The Autonomous Chip-to-System Engineer Has Arrived

How Cadence, in collaboration with NVIDIA, is building the industry's first silicon…

Corporate
• 4 min read
AuraStack AI Super Agent , DAC , featured , agentic ai , NVIDIA

Corporate News

Cadence’s Agentic AI Design Vision Takes Center Stage at DAC

AI infrastructure demands are changing what semiconductor design must solve. The…

Corporate
• 4 min read
AuraStack AI Super Agent , featured , agentic ai , DAC 2026 , ChipStack AI Super Agent
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Analog/Custom Design

Spectre Tech Tips: Spectre Assert and Design Check Overview

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

• 5 min read
spectre aps , Circuit simulation , asserts , Spectre , SOA Checks , Design Checks

Breakfast Bytes

Scaling EDA in the Cloud

Last year at DAC, we announced Cadence Cloud (for details see my post cleverly titled…

• 4 min read
cloud , causality , cadence cloud , amdahl's law

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Join us at CDNLive Silicon Valley 2019

Cadence will kick off this year’s CDNLive worldwide user conference series starting…

• 1 min read
CDNLive , CDNLive 2019 , CDNLive San Jose

Breakfast Bytes

The Ladybird Book of Quantum Mechanics

I mentioned in passing in a recent post that when I was helping teach first-year…

• 4 min read
core memory , DRAM , ladybird

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - FMCW Radar Receiver Signal Processing Using ConnX B20 DS…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Ramchandra Dabade talks about FMCW radar…

• less than a min read
DSP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , radar signal processing , ConnX

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8 Ways to Get the Most out of CDNLive Silicon Valley

It's CDNLive! Well, not today, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 2nd and 3rd at the Santa…

• 4 min read
CDNLive

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AI Index

The 2018 AI Index Report , developed by scientists and researchers in the AI field…

• 4 min read
artificial intelligence , deep learning , AI

The India Circuit

The Power of 900 Million Voices

The Indian elections are coming up! In just a few weeks, the first of seven phases…

• 3 min read
VVPAT , Indian elections , Election Commission of India , EVM , electronic voting machine

Verification

Concurrent Actions in Specman

Lately we have been asked by several customers about the concurrency options in Specman…

• 2 min read
first of , Specman , Specman/e , Specman e , e , specman elite

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 24th March 2019

https://youtu.be/FFd9mncMANI Made at SEMICON China (camera Tracy Zhu) Monday: The…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

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RSA: The Director of the FBI

Christopher Wray, the current (and the 8th) Director of the FBI, wrapped up the opening…

• 6 min read
rsa , fbi

Verification

NVMe 2019 Developer's Conference: NVMe 1.4 Is Almost Here, and Enterprise and Cloud…

Unlike previous years, the annual NVM Express Developer’s Conference was held in…

• 2 min read
Verification IP , Enterprise , NVM Express , PCIe Gen4 , NVMe , VIP , cloud , PCIe , PCI Express , TripleCheck

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

Breakfast Bytes

#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

Breakfast Bytes

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
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