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CadenceLIVE India 2025 Recap – Where Inspiration Meets Innovation

On August 13, 2025, CadenceLIVE India 2025 set the stage for a remarkable convergence…

Reela
• 2 min read
featured , cadence , AI-Driven Design , cadencelive , AI

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 production release is now available for download.

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

Corporate News

MSU Leveraging Intel 16 and the Cadence Tool Flow for Academic Chip Tapeout

Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed…

Corporate
• 4 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network

Digital Design

Himax Accelerates Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer

Himax Technologies Inc ., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display…

Vinod Khera
• 2 min read
featured , Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer , Digital Implementation , AI/ML
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Verification

Extending Multiple When-Subtypes Simultaneously

[For those of you that didn't / can't make it to a ClubT last week/this week , here…

• 4 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , e , ClubT , macros , AOP , IES-XL

Verification

Synopsys’ “Synphony” Announcement – Welcome to the Party!

I’m glad Synopsys realized the world really IS moving to the next higher level of…

• 1 min read
TLM , RTL , System Design and Verification , ESL , verification

Verification

Incisive Enterprise Verifier for Everyone!

Last week Cadence announced a new product called Incisive Enterprise Verifier (IEV…

• 2 min read
verifier , Functional Verification , formal , OVM , Incisive , IEV

Verification

The Scoop on the New Incisive Enterprise Verifier

Last week we announced Incisive Enterprise Verifier (IEV). What is cool about IEV…

• less than a min read
funtional verification , ABV , CDNLive , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Testbench simulation , Incisive , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , verification

Verification

Webcast: EDA, ESL and More Ideas From DAC

From the events calendar, OpenSystems Media is hosting a webcast tomorrow titled…

• less than a min read
System Design and Verification , PMC Sierra , OpenSystems , Virtual Platforms , ISX , ESL

Verification

Virtualization and Simulation Roundtable

A couple of weeks ago I participated in a roundtable discussion led by Peggy Aycinena…

• 2 min read
virtualization , VMware , Palladium , Virtual Box , EDA Cafe , ARM , System Design and Verification

Verification

Spanning the Globe to Bring You the Constant Variety of Verification

Any sports fan living in the US during the 70's and 80's will remember the dramatic…

• 3 min read
events , Specman , Object Oriented Programming , CDNLive , Functional Verification , OVM , OVM e , EDA , Incisive , team specman , OOP , Twitter , ClubT , AOP , Trailblazer

Verification

UPDATE: EU ClubT's Start This Week!

Just a quick reminder that the ClubT series starts this week! Here are the specific…

• 2 min read
IEEE 1647 , events , IntelliGen , Low Power , Specman , HW/SW , TLM , OVM ML , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , OVM , VIP , OVM e , Mixed Signal Verification , Incisive , e , Enterprise Manager , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , ClubT , SystemC , MDV , ESL , IES-XL , Trailblazer

Digital Design

Leakage Power and National Security

I read an interesting article recently on EDN regarding a new way to determine cryptographic…

• 1 min read
Palladium DPA , leakage , Digital Implementation , power

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About PDV Symbol Property Templates? The Secret's in the SPB16.2 Release

Allegro PCB Librarian / Part Developer (PDV) Symbol Property Templates have been…

• 2 min read
SPB 16.2 , PDV Symbol , templates , property , PCB design , Allegro

Digital Design

Running Low on Power or Receiving Mixed Signals? Talk to the Expert Users

Everytime my wife and I are looking to buy a big item, we do our research by reading…

• 1 min read
Mixed-Signal , Logic Design , Digital Implementation , mixed signal , verification

Verification

Intrusive Software Debugging: Friend or Foe?

One of the great benefits of working with simulation (RTL, SystemC , or any Virtual…

• 4 min read
virtual platform , System Design and Verification , Co-verification , SystemC , TLM 2.0 Trace , debugging

Verification

Skeptical That TLM D&V Makes Designers More Productive? Come and See for Yourself…

Last week Cadence’s new CMO John Bruggeman extended a personal invitation to all…

• 1 min read
PMCS , TLM , IBM , System Design and Verification , Vittuatech , DAC&V , CoWare , C-to-Silicon , SystemC , CDNLive! , ARM , TI

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About APD's Design Integrity Check? - It's in SPB16.2!

The Cadence IC Packaging tools are complex, flexible tools that allow a designer…

• 4 min read
SPB 16.2 , Integrity Check , IC Packaging , APD , Allegro 16.2 , PCB design

Verification

The Power of Parallel Thinking: Multi-Core Cadence

A while back, as we were preparing to launch our first phase of multi-core support…

• 1 min read
Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Testbench simulation , Multi-Core , verification

Verification

Using Vera is like Speaking Sumerian – Who’s Left to Understand?

Just like natural languages, non-standard verification languages can fade away.…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , Vera , Functional Verification , OVM , e , IES , RVM , VMM

Verification

Verification is a Sprint and a Marathon!

Verification engineers have updated an old adage to discribe their projects: Verification…

• 1 min read
performance , SystemVerilog , Functional Verification , OVM , Low-Power , Multi-Core , Incisive , Simulation acceleration , IES

Verification

CDNLive San Jose 2009 for the Specmaniac

Even sooner than the EU ClubTs is CDNLive San Jose 2009 , where this year the event…

• 3 min read
SystemVerilog , Low Power , Specman , HW/SW , CDNLive , OVM ML , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , OVM , VIP , MDV techtorial , OVM e Enterprise Planner , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , Incisive , OVM SV , e , Enterprise Manager , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , Plan and metrics management , multi-language , ClubT , SystemC , eRM , ESL , OVM SC , Coverage Driven Verification , IES-XL

Verification

EU Specmaniacs: ClubTs Are Coming in 2 Weeks!

EU-based Specmaniacs and "Trailblazers" rejoice: the annual ClubT series is back…

• 2 min read
IEEE 1647 , events , IntelliGen , Low Power , Specman , HW/SW , OVM ML , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , OVM , VIP , OVM e , Mixed Signal Verification , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , Incisive , e , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , ClubT , SystemC , ESL , IES-XL , Trailblazer
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