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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

Corporate News

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

Corporate News

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…

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• 2 min read
featured , Ultra Librarian , EMA , System Design and Analysis
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Breakfast Bytes

Happy Birthday, HP 12c—35 Years and Counting

Last year was the 50th anniversary of Moore's Law. One consequence of Moore's Law…

• 3 min read
hewlett-packard , hp 12c , CMOS , hp12c , calculator , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

DisplayPort 8K in Olympics 2020

If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent the last couple of weeks glued to the TV…

• 3 min read
Verification IP , VIP , DisplayPort , Design and Verification IP , Olympics

Breakfast Bytes

What’s for Breakfast? Preview September 6th to 9th (video)

https://youtu.be/lD8VFUNds7o Monday: Labor Day. Tuesday: CDNLive Boston. I…

• less than a min read
risc-v , acquila , CDNLive , MIPI , Power Integrity , open cellular , cdnlive boston , mipi devcon , Facebook , Signal Integrity , sifive

Breakfast Bytes

MIPI SoundWire

The MIPI Alliance exists to standardize widely used interfaces in mobile, such as…

• 3 min read
USB Type-C , MIPI SoundWire , MIPI , lightning , Soundwire , RealTek

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Introducing WSP Manager

Are you an advanced node layout or CAD engineer trying to find a methodology for…

• 2 min read
Routing , WSP , Rapid Adoption Kit , Advanced Node , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Application-Optimized DDR PHYs

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Kishore Kasamsetty takes a closer look…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , memory subsystems , memory IP , DDR IP , DDR PHY

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Sneak Peek: Discussion Topics for Signal and Power Integrity Expert Panel at CDNLive…

Who? Istvan Novak - senior principal engineer at Oracle Kevin Roselle -…

• 2 min read
Power Integrity , cdnlive boston , Signal Integrity , PCB design

Breakfast Bytes

Aging and Self-Heating in FinFETs

At CDNLive in India, Cadence's Hany Elhak discussed aging and self-heating, and how…

• 3 min read
failure , CDNLive India , Spectre , self-heating , aging , FinFET

SoC and IP

HoloLens Is at the Tip of the Tensilica Iceberg, With Processors That Scale to Any…

Microsoft provided details of their HoloLens HPU at HotChips this week, revealing…

• less than a min read
IP , controller , Tensilica , augmented reality

Breakfast Bytes

Piloted Driving: Audi's View

I hope it isn't a surprise to anyone reading this blog that the share of a vehicle…

• 3 min read
Automotive , Audi , automotive electronics , imec , itf brussels , itf

Breakfast Bytes

A Raven Has Landed: RISC-V and Chisel

In Game of Thrones, ravens are George RR Martin's way of getting information around…

• 4 min read
risc-v , riscv , chisel , raven , UC Berkeley , Breakfast Bytes

Academic Network

ISVLSI 2016: Advanced-Node Custom Layout Symposium Keynote

I had an exciting week in July here in Pittsburgh, PA with the IEEE Computer Society…

• 2 min read
ISVLSI , VLSI , Cadence Academic Network , academia , Virtuoso , advanced node layout

Breakfast Bytes

Provisioning Devices Securely

Asaf Ashkenazi of Cryptography Research (now part of Rambus) talked about provisioning…

• 3 min read
provisioning , security , cryptography research , IoT , wearables , linley mobile , Internet of Things , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Who Put the Silicon in Silicon Valley?

I think the person who has the strongest claim to putting the silicon in Silicon…

• 5 min read
marc andreessen , William Shockley , Silicon Valley , Breakfast Bytes

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Ford: Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Turbocharger Compressor

Ford chooses Fidelity Optimization to increase the performance of turbocharger compressors…

• 4 min read
CFD , Automotive , automotive engineering , turbomachinery , Computational Fluid Dynamics , fluid dynamics , Fidelity CFD , CFD Applications , Turbo

Breakfast Bytes

What’s for Breakfast? Preview August 29th to September 2nd (video)

https://youtu.be/X-hVSQfbtFE

• less than a min read
self-heading , Apple , risc-v , Audi , CDNLive , autonomous driving , MIPI , isa , cdnlive boston , Soundwire , aging , FinFET , ADAS , piloted driving , Krste Asanović , instruction set architecture

Verification

Coverage Maximization

Searching for “automatic coverage maximization” results with ~16 million hits. Alas…

• 4 min read
Specman , coverage , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , e , e language , Funcional Verification , team specman , specman elite , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Wearables: Growing at 38% CAGR?

At what has now become the Linley Mobile and Wearables Conference, Linley pointed…

• 3 min read
smartwatch , quaqlcomm , Linley , wearables , smart watch , mobile

SoC and IP

MIPI DevCon 2016 – Mobile and Beyond

MIPI DevCon 2016 – Mobile and Beyond The word “beyond” may bring up thoughts of…

• 6 min read
MIPI Alliance , ADAS
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