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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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Breakfast Bytes

Microsoft CDNLive Keynote: Cloudy with a Chance of Chips

Traditionally at CDNLive Silicon Valley, the first keynote is given by Lip-Bu Tan…

• 7 min read
microsoft , deep learning , cloud , azure , CDNLive Silicon Valley , Breakfast Bytes

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The IRDS Panel at IRPS

Confused by those names? The conference is the International Reliability and Physics…

• 4 min read
irds , ITRS , international roadmap for devices and systems , irps , IEEE , Breakfast Bytes , rebooting computing

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Convolutional Neural Network Challenges

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Megha Daga takes a closer look at the…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , convolutional neural networks

Breakfast Bytes

"The Safest Train Is One that Never Leaves the Station"

The Sunday and Monday at IRPS are tutorial days, with multiple tracks. On Monday…

• 7 min read
Automotive , functional safety , volkswagen , NVIDIA , sotif , ISO 26262 , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 1st to 5th 2017

https://youtu.be/n1uLybW0__s Coming from Millennium Park, Chicago (camera Jessamine…

• less than a min read
Physical verification , ieee 1800.2 , uvm , Genus , Embedded Vision Summit , pegasus , DRC , CDNLive EMEA , TSMC , via pillar , CDNLive Munich , Tensilica , design rule check , n7 , Innovus , cdnlive München , 7nm , vision processor

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The $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W

Roger Thornton of the Raspberry Pi foundation talked about designing their latest…

• 6 min read
Raspberry Pi , raspberry pi zero w , bluetooth , PCB design , WiFi , Breakfast Bytes , Allegro

Verification

SoC Verification with Portable Stimulus Using Perspec System Verifier

This year’s CDNLive San Jose was another gem. Many great keynotes, customer presentations…

• 2 min read
SoC verification , Perspec , perspec system verifier , Qualcomm , portable stimulus

Breakfast Bytes

Software Isn't the S in SDE

System Design Enablement (SDE) is about designing optimal systems, focusing effort…

• 8 min read
SDE , open source , software , gcc , system design enablement , linux , Breakfast Bytes

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Run Point Selection -WYSIWYG

With Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Virtuoso ADE Assembler , it is easy to create setups…

• 4 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE Explorer , Analog Simulation , analog , Mixed-Signal , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Analog Design Environment , ViVA , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design

Breakfast Bytes

CCIX Is Pronounced C6

Cache coherency has become a big issue as the architecture inside devices such as…

• 4 min read
GPU , ccix , cache coherency , offload processors , Breakfast Bytes , FPGA

Breakfast Bytes

Ricardo's Difficult Idea

Today is an important anniversary. It is part of the explanation of why we design…

• 5 min read
ricardo , unemployment , trade , comparative advantage , david ricardo , Breakfast Bytes , technology

RF Engineering

Noise Simulation in Spectre RF Using Improved Pnoise/Hbnoise and Direct Plot Form…

Did you check out the new Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing Analyses forms in the MMSIM…

• 3 min read
HBnoise , HB , Spectre RF , pnoise , noise simulation , Virtuoso , RF design , pss

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 24th to 28th 2017

https://youtu.be/OttUOjIHJf0 Coming from the Cadence coffee bar (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
Automotive , microsoft , Raspberry Pi , CDNLive , cloud , raspberry pi zero w , EDAC , ISO 26262 , CDNLive Silicon Valley , ARM , synopsys , reliability , esd alliance , Mentor

Breakfast Bytes

Autonomous Is the New Mobile: Linley on Cars

Cars are everywhere these days. It doesn't really matter what sort of event you attend…

• 7 min read
Intel , NXP , NVIDIA , Linley , mobileye , autonomous , Qualcomm , ISO 26262 , ADAS , visionpx , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

We Live on a Radioactive Planet Bombarded by Cosmic Rays

We live on a radioactive planet bombarded by cosmic rays. As a result, high-energy…

• 5 min read
thermal neutrons , alpha particles , high energy neutrons , see , single event effects , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Developing Fingerprint Readers for Developing World Medicine

Every aspiring 7-year old detective knows that fingerprints are unique. I actually…

• 4 min read
security , biometric , fingerprint , OrCAD , PCB design , Breakfast Bytes , simprints , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Retimers, Gearboxes, and the Drive to PAM4

If you listen to presentations about high-speed networking for datacenters, you will…

• 5 min read
Optical , gearbox , pam4 , fiber optic , Fiber , retimer , Ethernet , Breakfast Bytes

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The Gargini Roadmap for Semiconductors

Paolo Gargini gave the opening keynote at GOMAC recently. It was titled The Secret…

• 10 min read
irds , Intel , paolo gargini , ITRS , gnomic , moore's law , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - USB Type-C and the 5 Barriers to New Standards

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett explains why the USB Type…

• less than a min read
USB Type-C , Standards , USB
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