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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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Analog/Custom Design

Analog Design Resonance: Getting Started with Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Assemble…

By now, you have probably heard about the new family of Virtuoso ADE tools, publicly…

• 2 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE XL , ADE , Virtuoso , IC6.1.7 , Custom IC Design

Analog/Custom Design

Welcome to the New Sound of Analog Design

The new Virtuoso ® ADE product suite enables designers to fully explore, analyze…

• 2 min read

Breakfast Bytes

Happy 25th Birthday, Virtuoso!

There are a lot of changes going on in the environment in which analog design gets…

• 5 min read
Virtuoso Variation Option , Virtuoso ADE Verifier , Virtuoso , analog design , Virtuoso ADE Explorer , Virtuoso ADE Assembler , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

A Brief History of Cadence: the Present Day

In the early days, like all the larger EDA companies, Cadence grew through a mixture…

• 3 min read
cadence , startups , history , SDA , acquisitions

Breakfast Bytes

Blue Gecko, Designed with Cadence Mixed-Signal, Low-Power Flow

Blue Gecko is a system on chip (SoC) created by Silicon Labs to provide wireless…

• 1 min read
AMS , Tempus , Silicon Labs , blue gecko , Voltus , bluetooth , Spectre , Innovus , mixed signal , zigbee

Academic Network

Student Day at embedded world, Nuremberg

The Cadence Academic Network was proud to sponsor the Student Day at embedded world…

• 1 min read
Student Day , Cadence Academic Network , Embedded World

Breakfast Bytes

EDAC Becomes the Electronic System Design Alliance

Last night, Bob Smith, the executive director of what was EDAC, announced the new…

• 5 min read
robert smith , ESDA , semi , embedded software , bob smith , Semiconductor , semiconductor IP , EDAC , Breakfast Bytes , esd alliance

SoC and IP

Design IP Customer and Technology Presentations at CDNLive Silicon Valley, April…

We have an exciting Design IP track at CDNLive Silicon Valley again this year. ARM…

• 1 min read
Design IP , CDNLive , PCIe Gen4 , DIP , SerDes , Silicon Valley

Analog/Custom Design

Welcome to TeamADE

Welcome to the new home of all things related to the Virtuoso® Analog Design Environment…

• less than a min read
custom design , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , analog design

Breakfast Bytes

Memory Standards and the Future

I sat down and talked with Amjad Qureshi recently He is vice president of research…

• 3 min read
Memory , DDR4 , LPDDR4 , JEDEC , HBM , Denali , DDR , amjad qureshi

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Memory Trends to Fit Your Application

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jeffrey Chung talks about the progression…

• less than a min read
Design IP , LPDDR , memory IP , DDR

Breakfast Bytes

Encryption: Why Backdoors Are a Bad Idea

I have always had a passing interest in encryption and security. My PhD is on network…

• 7 min read
vlsi technology , imessage , Apple , clipper , encryption , iOS , granitephone , backdoor , Breakfast Bytes

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the Latest System-In-Package (SiP)? New Capabilities in 16.6-2015…

Several new features have been added to the 16.6-2015 SiP release. Read on for more…

• 4 min read
IC Packaging and SiP Design , Cadence Design Systems , SiP , IC Packaging , Allegro 16.6 , Digital SiP design , Grzenia , Allegro

Verification

How to Handle a Binding Catastrophe

Are you busy debugging your environment topology and coming up against components…

• 3 min read
Specman , TLM , binding

Breakfast Bytes

A Brief History of Cadence: the Post-Costello Years

Through the 1990s, Cadence made lots of smaller acquisitions. In 1997, Joe Costello…

• 2 min read
Costello , cadence , Bingham , Lip-Bu Tan , mergers , history , fister , Harding

SoC and IP

Tech Shanghai Drives Innovation by Overcoming Challenges

Far more often than we imagine, we think about China within the context of the complicated…

• 2 min read
China , DDR4 , PCIe Gen4 , tech shanghai

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Reports – Now Sorting Your Strings the Way YOU Want Them Sorted

When it comes right down to it, if we asked most of you what was the most important…

• 4 min read
documentation , Cadence Design Systems , Reports , manufacturing exports , APD , Allegro Package Designer , IC packaging documentation , SiP Layout , sorting

Breakfast Bytes

Moore's Law Slowing? Don't Tell TSMC

TSMC is a manufacturing powerhouse. It has twice the capacity of any other non-memory…

• 4 min read
cycle time , hvm , gigafab , TSMC , 16FFC , n7 , n10 , 7nm , 10nm , days per layer , nanjing , Breakfast Bytes , volume ramp

Breakfast Bytes

CDNLive: It's Only Two Weeks Away

In two weeks time (or a fortnight as we say in Britain) is CDNLive Silicon Valley…

• 1 min read
packaging , CDNLive , custom design , Power Integrity , Mixed-Signal , Tensilica , Signal Integrity , Qualcomm , Digital Implementation , PCB design , front end design , signoff , GlobalFoundries , CDNLive Silicon Valley , power , System Verification
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