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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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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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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…

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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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Analog/Custom Design

IEEE Recognition of Cadence Software at DAC 2016

Cadence was awarded with the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award—EDA’s most…

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best paper award , DAC , Virtuoso , IEEE

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Applying Deep Learning to Our Daily Lives

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Samer Hijazi discusses bringing deep…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , deep learning , Samer Hijazi , Tensilica , embedded

Breakfast Bytes

Linley Mobile Conference...and That ARM Deal

This year's Linley Mobile and Wearables Conference is coming up next week on July…

• 4 min read
softbank , Linley , Linley Mobile & Wearables Conference , ARM , Breakfast Bytes

SoC and IP

PCI Express Trends and News at PCI-SIG 2016

PCI-SIG Developers Conference 2016 is now history, taking place at the Santa Clara…

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PCIe Gen4 , 10G-KR , SerDes , PCI Express

Breakfast Bytes

Softbank Buys ARM for $32B

Over the weekend it seems that Softbank has closed a deal to acquire ARM Holdings…

• 4 min read
softbank , Mobile World Congress , ARM , sprint

Breakfast Bytes

The Future of Neural Networks...and Our Robot Overlords

Chris Rowen, the CTO of the Cadence IP group, wrapped up the recent seminar in Las…

• 4 min read
open datasets , training , neural networks , data scientist , privacy , CNN , Breakfast Bytes

Academic Network

Meet the Winners of Tensilica Xtensa Embedded DSP Design Contest India 2016

The winners of the Tensilica Xtensa Embedded DSP Design Contest have been announced…

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Cadence Academic Network , Bangladesh , Tensilica , Xtensa Design Contest , India

Breakfast Bytes

Hierarchical Neural Networks

The German Traffic Sign Benchmark actually has the signs divided into groups: speed…

• 3 min read
neural networks , CNN , hierarchical neural networks

Verification

Fine Tuning of Coverage Model Definition

Functional Coverage is one of the main means to measure the quality and progress…

• 8 min read
funtional verification , Specman , coverage , Functional Verification , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , e , e language , Funcional Verification , team specman , Verification IP modeling , metric-driven verification , MDV

Academic Network

Cadence Academic Network in Poland

Poland is a country with long tradition in microelectronics education and research…

• 2 min read
university , Cadence Academic Network , Poland , university program

Academic Network

PRIME and SMACD Conferences in Lisbon

Cadence Academic Network is supporting for years PRIME (PhD Research in Microelectronics…

• 2 min read
Cadence Academic Network , academic workshop , ADE , Virtuoso

Breakfast Bytes

How to Optimize Your CNN

Convolutional neural nets (CNNs) are not programmed in the traditional sense, but…

• 4 min read
Low Power , cnn training , cnn optimization , neural networks , CNN , embedded neural nets

Academic Network

Students from Pohang University of Science and Technology Visit Cadence Headquar…

My team recently had the privilege of hosting first year undergraduate students aka…

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Academic Network

DAC: A Glimpse of the Future Innovators

Hope you read my previous blog on Cadence Academic Network sponsoring all the student…

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DAC , Cadence Academic Network

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Gauging Signal Quality Using Eye Diagrams

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chung Huang summarizes his presentation…

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Whiteboard Wednesdays , eye diagrams , signal quality

Breakfast Bytes

Power-Efficient Recognition Systems for Embedded Applications

Neural networks are hot. Las Vegas is hot, too. And there is a connection. In late…

• 4 min read
Chris Rowen , training , neural networks , CNN , embedded

Breakfast Bytes

Last Chance to See Tsukiji Fish Market

This doesn’t have much to do with Cadence or semiconductors. It has a lot to do with…

• 5 min read
tsukiji , renasas , japan , tsukiji fish market

SoC and IP

How to Create a Working IoT Sensor in One Month

Cadence and ARM have created an IoT IP reference sub-system that can speed system…

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sensor , IoT , ARM , IoT subsystem , IoT sensor

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Optimizing Neural Networks

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen discusses optimizing neural…

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Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Chris Rowen , high throughput , low energy , Tensilica , neural networks
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