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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

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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• 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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NVIDIA: Ten Months of Emulation on Palladium, Hours to Bring-Up

NVIDIA just released their next-generation GPU architecture called Pascal and a brand…

• 2 min read
palladium z1 , NVIDIA , Palladium , Palladium XP , Emulation , Breakfast Bytes

SoC and IP

Cadence and Hardent demonstrate high resolution display interface for Automotive

At Cadence we aim to enable our customers’ need to reduce their own design time and…

• 1 min read
Hardent , Design IP , MIPI Alliance , CDNLive , DIP , MIPI , DSI , DSC

SoC and IP

High Speed East-West Interconnect at the Open Server Summit

This year’s Open Server Summit served up plates full of data…if it wasn’t obvious…

• 1 min read
PCIe Gen4 , 10G-KR , SerDes

Breakfast Bytes

EDPS Cyber Security Workshop: "Don't Let Convenience Trump Security"

EDPS, the Electronic Design Process Symposium, always has the second of the two days…

• 4 min read
security , Monterey , chris eagle , EDPS , cyber security , naval postgraduate school , Breakfast Bytes

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FD-SOI: Can I Design It and Manufacture It?

Yesterday I covered the analysis by ARM and VLSI Research on FD-SOI from the symposium…

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28 FD-SOI , Samsung , VSLI Research , GlobalFoundries , ARM , FD-SOI

SoC and IP

CDNLive Silicon Valley 2016—The Bigger IP Picture

When a presentation makes us think about an industry on a whole new level and rethink…

• 1 min read
CDNLive , ip cores , Design IP and Verification IP

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Floating-Point Core of Tensilica Vision P5 DSP

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Dennis Crespo explains the optional vector…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Computer Vision , Tensilica , imaging , floating point , Tensilica Vision P5 DSP

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Flexible Connectivity Support of Dummy Devices

Virtuoso Video Diary is envisaged to be an online journal that will relay information…

• 3 min read
dummy backannotation , Physical placement and layout , backannotation , Layout , Virtuoso , dummy abutment , dummy instances , dummy instance backannotation , dummy devices , dummy instance abutment , Virtuoso Layout Suite , dummies , VLS XL , custom design technology , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL , Abutment

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FD-SOI: Is It Really a Thing?

Apparently, asking if something is really a thing is really a thing. So, recently…

• 8 min read
FinFET , GlobalFoundries , ARM , FD-SOI

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the Latest Constraint Manager? The 16.6-2015 Release has Several…

Significant enhancements to the 16.6-2015 Constraint Manager release have been made…

• 3 min read
PCB , SI , Allegro 16.6 , SigXP UI , Constraint Manager , Signal Integrity , Constraints , Grzenia

Analog/Custom Design

The Leader of the Orchestra: Getting Started with Virtuoso ADE Verifier

The members of an orchestra are often great virtuosi on their own instruments, but…

• 3 min read
verifier , Virtuoso ADE Verifier , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Analog Design Environment

Breakfast Bytes

Patents and Standards, Managing the Challenge

One challenge with standards is the desire to avoid unknowingly incorporating patents…

• 5 min read
vlsi technology , Rambus , ieee patent policy , GSM , loa , patent , IEEE-SA , IEEE , letter of assurance , Breakfast Bytes , standard

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Andrew Kahng on PPAC Scaling Below 7nm

Last week Dr. Andrew Kahng came to town. He was at CDNLive, where his presentation…

• 5 min read
ucsd , roadmap , ITRS , Cadence Academic Network , kahng , andrew kahng , 5nm , 7nm , power

Academic Network

Academic Track Makes Its Debut at CDNLive Silicon Valley

For the first time at CDNLive Silicon Valley, Cadence Academic Network hosted an…

• 2 min read
Cadence Academic Network , CDNLive , academia

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Phil Moorby and the History of Verilog

Last Saturday there was a gala event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View…

• 6 min read
verilog-xl , gateway design automation , SystemVerilog , Gateway , Phil Moorby , Verilog , computer history museum , chm

SoC and IP

50 Years of Turning Optical Dreams into Reality

Anaheim Convention Center (CA) was the center of a spectacle of technology that continues…

• 3 min read
Optical , PCIe Gen4 , OFC , Fiber , PCIe

Breakfast Bytes

Ann Winblad Masterclass

Normally the Stanford VLAB meets in Menlo Park, but occasionally they make a foray…

• 5 min read
ann winblad , vlab , hummer winblad , venture capital

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - The Future of Neural Networks

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen looks at the future of neural…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Chris Rowen , Tensilica , neural networks

Breakfast Bytes

Open Server Summit: How to Install 5,000 Servers Per Day

There are only a few end markets for semiconductors that really drive the technology…

• 6 min read
Open Server Summit , servers , datacenter
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