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Accelerating System Design with Real-Time Simulation, Powered by AI Physics

Rising demand for AI infrastructure is driving faster innovation and smarter use…

Corporate
• 4 min read
CFD , featured , NVIDIA , accelerated compute , millennium

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR2 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR2 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 1 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Blog Announcement

Data Center

Innovation in Data Center Design and Operations: Highlights from Thésée Event

The Thésée event brought together key partners like France Télévisions, Thésée, Cadence…

Veena Parthan
• 5 min read
featured , Thésée Event , data center , Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform

Corporate News

Don’t Miss the 2025 North America Open Meeting!

Join Visionaries, Discover Breakthrough Tech, and Power Your Next Big Idea Are you…

Corporate
• 1 min read
featured , innovation , Beta CAE , event , AI
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Verification

2010 CDNLive Munich Guide for Specmaniacs

Good news for Specmaniacs based in the EU: next week from May 4-6 is the annual CDNLive…

• 2 min read
Specman , CDNLive , Functional Verification , Cadence VIP portfolio , OVM , OVM e , e , Mike Stellfox , techtorial

Verification

Team Verify's 2010 CDNLive Munich Guide

We're excited to report that next week's annual CDNLive! event in Munich will feature…

• 1 min read
ABV , CDNLive , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , Contributions , SVA , PSL , MDV , IEV , IFV

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About APD’s Super Smooth Routing? See for yourself in the SPB16.3 Release

When using the point-to-point routing in the packaging products ( APD and SIP ),…

• 3 min read
PCB , PCB Layout and routing , IC Packaging and SiP Design , IC Packaging , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , APD , advanced package designer , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , Cline change

Verification

Harris-Cadence-Mathworks-Xilinx Success Cuts Verification Time 85%

More and more often it takes a village to achieve verification success. As reported…

• 1 min read
Functional Verification , Incisive , xilinx , IES , FPGA , Matlab , IES-XL

SoC and IP

NAND Flash as the media killer: Sony to kill the floppy in Japan, finally

Sometimes it takes decades but NAND Flash semiconductor memory is turning out to…

• 1 min read

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Favorite Features of an IC Package Designer: Flexible 3D Viewing

This is the first in a series of discussions we would like to open up regarding…

• 1 min read
SiP , Digital SiP design , 3D-IC , Allegro 16.3 , TSV , APD , IC Packaging & SiP design , IC Package Physical layout and co-design , Kulicke & Soffa

Verification

Verified by e/Specman: The Palladium XP Verification Computing Platform

After much anticipation, it feels great to be free to proclaim that e /Specman (as…

• less than a min read
metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , e , Palladium XP , MDV , IES-XL

SoC and IP

Corsair Video vividly shows SSD speedup on laptop

Wondering whether an SSD really makes that much difference to laptop performance…

• less than a min read

Digital Design

Hands Up, Anyone Believe That Toyota's Problems Are All Physical?

In the past number of weeks/months we have all seen how Toyota has struggled to manage…

• 2 min read
toyota , Digital Implementation , BMW , microprocessor , verification

Verification

Ubuntu on ARM is Growing

Based on the title, you probably guessed I'm talking about growing in popularity…

• 6 min read
virtual platform , System Design & Verification , Embedded Linux , QEMU

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Who’s up for Chinese?

Recently, someone asked me " .. . why bother translating OrCAD products to Chinese…

• 1 min read
Capture CIS' , PSPICE , OrCAD , PCB design , PCB Capture , Schematic

SoC and IP

What is a Flash cache?

A Flash cache acts like SRAM memory caches that are designed to speed up DRAM access…

• 3 min read

SoC and IP

Free DAC Tix -- Better hurry ‘cause they’re going fast

Love DAC? Design chips? Looking for a job? Today’s your lucky day. Denali, Atrenta…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

Numonyx 128-Mbit serial- and parallel-I/O PCM non-volatile memories now available…

Numonyx has announced or reannounced two 128-Mbit non-volatilve memory devices based…

• 2 min read

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Simplifying the Use of Third-Party SI Models? It's in SPB16.3!

Today, many users receive SI models that are not in DML format. They are given IBIS…

• 8 min read
PCB SI , SI , HSPICE , Signal Intregrity , IBIS , SigXP UI , PCB Signal and power integrity , SPB 16.3 , IBIS-AMI , PCB design

Verification

UVM Based on OVM 2.1.1: What a Great Idea!

Regular readers know that I have been urging the Accellera VIP TSC to base its Universal…

• 2 min read
uvm , Verification methodology , OVM , Functional Verification' signal integrity , Contributions , Accellera

Verification

When Less Is More, Part 3: Is e code really “infinitely” more compact than SystemVerilog…

Building on the packet generation example of part 1 , and the coverage examples of…

• 3 min read
IEEE 1647 , SystemVerilog , Specman , Object Oriented Programming , Functional Verification , e , OOP , Aspect Oriented Programming , AOP , IES-XL

SoC and IP

Intel’s Atom-based Tunnel Creek SOC with integrated PCIe interface opens new era…

One of the most ignored Intel announcements of recent memory must be Doug Davis’…

• 2 min read

SoC and IP

Network World SSD Smackdown shows Fusionio’s PCIe-based SSD provides highest thr…

Network World has just posted an SSD comparison test written by Logan G. Harbaugh…

• 3 min read
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