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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.…

Corporate
• 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…

Corporate
• 2 min read
featured , Ultra Librarian , EMA , System Design and Analysis
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Analog/Custom Design

What's the Worst that Could Happen?: Worst-Case Corners in ADE GXL

In addition to combinations of temperature range and power supply voltages (usually…

• 2 min read
Variability Aware Design , Corners analysis , worst case corners , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , ADE-GXL , Analog Design Environment

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Implementing Always-On Audio

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays episode, Gerard Andrews, from the Tensilica…

• less than a min read
mobile devices , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , sensor fusion , voice trigger , Tensilica , HiFi DSP , always on audio , audio playback

Analog/Custom Design

What Your Circuit Doesn't Know, Can Kill It!

Device variation has been a long-standing problem in custom design. Over the years…

• 1 min read
IP , post-extraction , corner , in-design , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , physical implementation , device variation , IC design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Improve Design Quality with Adjacent Layer Object Avoidance in the 16.6 Cadence APD…

In this week's discussion, let's take a look at a cornerstone of every good substrate…

• 2 min read
IC Packaging and SiP Design , package , packaging , IC Packaging and SiP , APD , IC Packaging & SiP design , SiP Layout , IC Package Physical layout and co-design

Verification

e Language Editing with Emacs

Specman and e have been around for a while, and some clever people have developed…

• 1 min read
AF , Specman , Incisive Debug Analyzer , e code , xemacs , Funcional Verification , editing , emacs

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - What is VIP?

Today, our continuing Whiteboard Wednesdays video blog series will provide an overview…

• less than a min read
Verification IP , Memory , VIP , EDA , interfaces , SoC design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro/OrCAD/Sigrity Quarterly Incremental Releases (QiRs)? Check…

You’ve no doubt seen announcements (either via customer emails, on the Cadence website…

• 1 min read
PCB , Allegro 16.6 , 16.6 , Support , SPB , Front-end PCB design , OrCAD , Sigrity , Allegro

Verification

Incisive Verification: Top 10 Things I Learned While Browsing Cadence Online Support…

There is always a demand, in most corners of the world today, for learning and troubleshooting…

• 9 min read
IEEE-1801 , LPS , App Note Incisive Simulation , Cadence Online Support , RAK , UVC , UPF , IES

SoC and IP

My Love-Hate Relationship with Mobile World Congress

My friends are jealous. I get an all-expense-paid trip to Barcelona, Spain to see…

• 1 min read
Design IP , MIPI , Mobile World Congress , MWC , Tensilica

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Imaging, Video, and Embedded Vision

Today, our continuing Whiteboard Wednesdays video blog series will shed some light…

• less than a min read
Design IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , video , embedded vision , Tensilica , imaging , imaging video

Verification

Cadence and AMD Add New UVM Multi-Language Features

The UVM Multi-Language Open Architecture open-source library was recently updated…

• 2 min read
IEEE 1647 , SystemVerilog , uvm , IEEE 1800 , UVM-ML , VCs , Incisive , e , IEEE 1666 , Accellera , SystemC , Questa , IES-XL

SoC and IP

Latest Developments in Ethernet Standards

Cadence is committed to supplying Ethernet silicon and verification IP to help its…

• 3 min read
Ethernet standards , IEEE 802.3 , Ethernet , Marris , 802.3bj

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor CM Analysis Control? 16.6 Has a Few New Enhancements

Beginning with the 16.6 version of Allegro PCB Editor , you can now toggle the Analysis…

• less than a min read
PCB , constraints manager , Cadence Design Systems , Constraint-driven PCB Design flow , data management , constraint databases , Allegro GUI , Allegro 16.6 , cadence , 16.6 , SPB , PCB Editor , Constraint Manager , PCB routing , design , PCB design , Constraints , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor , Constraint Driven PCB routing , PCB Capture , Allegro

Verification

Covering Edges (part II)—“Inverse Normal” Distribution

In the previous example , we used the "select edge" to generate edge values for fields…

• less than a min read
AF , e language , Funcional Verification , functional coverage , coverage driven verification (CDV) , Aspect Oriented Programming

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Closing the Memory Wall Gap

We're excited to introduce Whiteboard Wednesdays, a new video blog series that will…

• less than a min read
Design IP , 2D Memory , Memory , DDR4 , 3D memory , wide i/o , HMC , HBM , UFS , eMMC , Tensilica , DDR4 3DS

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor New Ratsnest Display Option? Check Out 16.6

The 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor release has a ratsnest display option that is designed…

• less than a min read
PCB , Cadence Design Systems , Allegro GUI , Allegro 16.6 , cadence , Routing , 16.6 , PCB Editor , PCB routing , Layout , design , PCB design , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor

Verification

ADI Success Verifying SoC Reset Using X-Propagation Technology - Video

Analog Devices Inc. succeeded in both speeding up the simulation and debug productivity…

• 2 min read
x-prop , Low Power , debug , simvision , CPF , x-propagation , Incisive , UPF , MDV , GLS , verification , IES-XL

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: 15 Things I Learned in December 2013 by Browsing Cadence Online Supp…

With this month's title, I'll need to start adding the year, as this marks the one…

• 3 min read
RF Simulation , AMS , Low Power , PCells , ADE , Layout , Virtuoso , Spectre , Analog Design Environment , ADE-XL , PVS , SKILL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

See the Differences Between Your Designs Visually with the Layer Compare Toolset…

Have you ever wondered exactly what has changed between two different versions of…

• 6 min read
IC Packaging , solder mask layer , substrate , SiP Layout , layer compare tools
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