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DAC 2026 Wrap-Up: AI-Powered Engineering Moves from Vision to Workflow Reality

Every year, Design Automation Conference (DAC) brings big announcements, packed demos…

Veena Parthan
• 5 min read
Jasper Formal Verification Platform , featured , agentic ai , DAC 2026 , AI for design

Corporate News

Samsung Foundry and Cadence Expand Infrastructure and Physical AI Solution

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

Corporate
• 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
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Verification

CCIX Coherency: Verification Challenges and Approaches

Cache coherency is not a new concept. Coherent architectures have existed for many…

• 2 min read
Verification IP , ccix , SoC , coherency , System Verification

Breakfast Bytes

Passwords: Just Add Salt

This is a second post about passwords, picking up where Passwords: How Even Your…

• 5 min read
security , password , two-factor authentication , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 29th to February 2nd 2018

https://youtu.be/OtFTlu1u9xI Coming from TSMC North America (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
DesignCon , Models , TSMC , semiconductor IP , open source

Breakfast Bytes

Passwords: How Even Your Bank Doesn't Know Your PIN

In my predictions for 2018 piece yesterday, Nibbles: Breakfast Bytes Predictions…

• 7 min read
cryptographic hash , passwords , salt , hashing

Breakfast Bytes

Nibbles: Breakfast Bytes Predictions for 2018

Every year Breakfast Bytes makes some predictions for the year. At the end of the…

• 7 min read
security , Automotive , 5nm , autonomous vehicles , EUV

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity:Expression Builder - Now Plots ALL!

The Expression Builder has simplified writing complex expressions and has the ability…

• 2 min read
ADE Explorer , ADE , Expression Builder , Virtuoso , ViVA , Virtuosity , ADE Assembler

Breakfast Bytes

Running a Salesforce

I decided to run some posts on different areas of companies, and what I have found…

• 10 min read
sales , salesforce , business development , sales management

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Designing Data Bus with DDR5 Technology Today? Yes, It Is Possible!

Many system designers have been working with DDR4 RAM components in the past couple…

• 4 min read
ddr5 , AMI , Memory interface , IBIS , IBIS-AMI , DDR , Sigrity

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Improve High-Speed Serial Link Design with IBIS-AMI Backchannel Simulation

As signal integrity engineers, we know adaptive equalization is used in today’s multi…

• 3 min read
Serial link analysis , Backchannel Simulation , IBIS-AMI , SerDes , Sigrity , SystemSI

Verification

Cadence Collaborates with Test & Verification Solutions on Portable Stimulus

The Cadence® Connections® Verification Program brings together a worldwide network…

• 2 min read
CDNLive , Test , DVcon , pss , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Dude, Where Are Your Files?

Let me tell you a funny story. We’ve been working with an outside research agency…

• 2 min read
Engineering Data Management , data management , Work in Process Data , Work in Progress Data , ECAD data , EDM , PCB design

Breakfast Bytes

Why You Shouldn't Trust Ken Thompson

I wrote yesterday about the two exploits, Spectre and Meltdown . I think that the…

• 7 min read
security , unix , thompson

The India Circuit

A Hackathon to Remember

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about face recognition . Coincidentally, face recognition…

• 2 min read
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology , VLSI & Embedded Systems Design Conference , Tensilica , Tensilica Xtensa

Breakfast Bytes

Spectre and Meltdown: An Update

I wrote an extra Breakfast Bytes post a couple of weeks ago about Spectre and Meltdown…

• 10 min read
security , Intel , meltdown , AMD , x86 , Spectre , ARM

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Verification Challenges for SoCs Integrating PCI Express…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Nick Heaton, Distinguished Engineer,…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , SoC , PCI Express , verification

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity and Virtuoso Video Diary: Onwards and Upwards

Looking back at 2017, I note with satisfaction that it was a phenomenal year of blogging…

• 3 min read
Cadence blogs , custom/analog , Virtuoso , RF design , Virtuosity , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , Custom IC

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM Short Course: After 5nm

The Sunday of IEDM is always two full-day short courses. One is on the future of…

• 7 min read
feol , 5nm , beol , IEDM , DTCO

Verification

This Was 2017, Looking Forward 2018

With 2017 just out of the door, this is a good time to stop for a few minutes, look…

• less than a min read
Specman , Functional Verification

Breakfast Bytes

Mobile World Congress in One Keynote

It was CES last week. Generally, this is not an event about mobile, mainly because…

• 8 min read
5G , baidu , CES2018 , Verizon , Qualcomm , mobile
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