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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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Automotive Test, How to Use Just Two Pins

Automotive chips often suffer from a limited chip interface in which most of the…

• 4 min read
Automotive , two pin test , JTAG , tap , manchester encoding , tap controller , low pin count test

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Internet of Things: How Will They Be Built?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is not really a market, it is a catchall term for devices…

• 3 min read
security , IoT , MIPI , CSI , encryption , wearables , fitness tracker , Internet of Things , drones , FitBit , power

Breakfast Bytes

How ARM Servers Can Take Over the World

One of the big themes of the Linley Data Center Conference last week was the possibility…

• 4 min read
ARMv8 , Intel , AMD , arm servers , red hat , broadcom , Qualcomm , AppliedMicro , ARM , linux

Breakfast Bytes

Care for Some Gates With Your Server?

One of the big themes from the Linley Data Center Conference earlier this month was…

• 4 min read
Intel , GPU , data center , Altera , HBM , cloud , High Bandwidth Memory , Stratix , datacenter , FPGA , cloud computing

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Ethernet and Automotive Electronics

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Sachin Dhingra follows up on last week…

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Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Automotive Ethernet , automotive electronics

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Cadence at embedded world—ADAS, the Stepping Stone to Self-Driving Cars

Cadence will be at embedded world in Nüremberg from February 23 to 26. We will be…

• 3 min read
functional safety , vision processing , nüremburg , ECU , Automotive Ethernet , Tensilica , ISO 26262 , Embedded World , video processing , audioprocessing , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

Functional Verification Closure—Are We Done Yet?

In my job as product marketing director for vManager and MDV, I get to hear this…

• 4 min read
methodology , verification strategy , Functional Verification , Metric Driven Verification , vPlan , Incisive , Plan and metrics management , vManager

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Interface IP in Consumer Electronics

What is the consumer marketplace? It is a bit of a tautology, but it is electronic…

• 3 min read
IP , Consumer Electronics , interface IP , Breakfast Bytes

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Software-Driven Hardware Verification

There is a transition going on in the system and semiconductor worlds. Some system…

• 4 min read
palladium z1 , virtual platform , Palladium , Emulation , software , Breakfast Bytes , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Shape Edit Application Mode? New Capabilities…

The Allegro PCB Editor 16.6-2015 release provides Shape Edit Application Mode, a…

• 6 min read
PCB , PCB Layout and routing , Allegro GUI , Allegro 16.6 , Routing , High Speed , SPB , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Where Ethernet Is Used in Automotive Electronics

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Sachin Dhingra takes a closer look at…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Automotive Ethernet , Ethernet

Breakfast Bytes

Where You Going? Barcelona (and Mobile World Congress)

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is later this month in Barcelona in Spain (actually in…

• 3 min read
mwc16 , barcelona , Mobile World Congress , MWC , Tensilica , tensilican vision dsp , tensilica hifi , Breakfast Bytes

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Autonomous Vehicles and the Semiconductor Industry: a Double-Edged Sword

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how automotive companies are going to need to…

• 3 min read
Automotive , sidecar , lyft , ADAS , autonomous vehicles , general motors

System, PCB, & Package Design 

How to Maximize Performance When Your Package Layout Gets Complicated

We are all familiar with it. Every year, designs get faster, smaller, and more complicated…

• 6 min read
Cadence Design Systems , SiP , Digital SiP design , IC package design , APD , package design , Allegro Package Designer

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Datacenter in a Can

Earlier this week I wrote about the Linley Data Center Conference and how Thermal…

• 3 min read
microsoft , data center , google , thermal , cooling , power

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"Thermal is the New Power" and Melting Butter with Your Phone

For some time now, SoC design groups have had to optimize PPA: performance, power…

• 4 min read
thermal management , PPA , thermal , power

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Linley Data Center Conference: FPGAs and ARMs in the Cloud

Next week, February 9-10, is the Linley Data Center Conference in the Santa Clara…

• 4 min read
Altera , linley group , Linley , cloud , xilinx , ARM , datacenter , Breakfast Bytes , FPGA , cloud computing

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Mapping Convolutional Neural Networks to the Vision P5 DSP

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Chris Rowen explains how convolutional neural…

• less than a min read
Vision P5 , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Chris Rowen , Computer Vision , Tensilica , convolutional neural networks , CNNs , image processing

Academic Network

Cadence Academic Network Sponsors Build 18, an Annual Freestyle Tinkering Festival…

What happens when you challenge a group of electrical and computer engineering students…

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build 18 , build , Cadence Academic Network , cmu , carnegie mellon univiersity
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