Cadence Academic Network Blogs

A picture tells more than a thousand words, so here are some pictures of CadenceLIVE Europe 2023 Academic and Entrepreneur Tracks to tell a story. After two years of absence, finally the Academic Dinner could take place with professors from Lead Ins...

The DATE conference, the biggest EDA conference in Europe will be held April 17-19 2023, in Antwerp, Belgium. After three years of a virtual conference, the European and international EDA and microelectronic design communities will finally get t...

In order to describe the purpose of this education kit, let’s leave the EDA turf for a minute and enter the world of computer architecture. If you still remember the 80s, the PCs of that time had one single CPU (Central Processing Unit), which ...

I am very happy to announce that registration for the in-person CadenceLIVE Europe user conference has opened! The conference will be hosted in Munich at a new venue, the Hilton Park Hotel. The Cadence Academic Network is turning 15 this year,...

Teaching is easy, teaching with a learning effect is hard Opening statement of a GeCON 2022 panel session I attended the IEEE GeCon conference in Berlin, the first conference organized by IEEE where professors from all over Germany and abroad got to...

Students are full of wisdom, energy and courage to pursue their dreams.  China Postgraduate IC Innovation Competition is one of the series of the Postgraduate Innovation and Practice Competition; it is a team-based, creative, practice, activity...

The ARMMS RF and Microwave Society is an independent professional society comprised of individuals with interest in the design and measurement of devices and products operating at RF and Microwave frequencies.  The Society serves as a focal point for...

The Cadence Academic Network was excited to participate in many activities at the 2022 Design Automation Conference (DAC) held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from July 10-14. We were proud to sponsor the DAC Young Fellows Program and Ph.D. Fo...

At the beginning of 2021, Cadence made two big announcements: As part of the Intelligent System Design (ISD) Strategy, Cadence has acquired Numeca and Pointwise. This move strengthens Cadence’s competence in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). ...

The Virtuoso Education Kit has just been released and now there is already a new kit available: The Organic Printed Electronics PDK Education Kit! This kit also uses Virtuoso as the main Cadence tool, allowing schematic creation, layouting, and paras...

The Cadence Learning and Support Portal is useful to academia in many ways: Online Training, Rapid Adoption Kits (RAKs), Generic Process Design Kits (GPDKs), troubleshooting database, and so much more. But with so many benefits, it is helpful to be a...

The Cadence Education Kit initiative runs at full steam! After the release of the VLSI Fundamental: A Practical Approach Education Kit and the Tensilica Education Kit, there is a new kit knocking on the door of all microelectronics educators: the Fun...

After the big success of the VLSI Fundamental: A Practical Approach Education Kit, the Cadence Academic Network is announcing the availability of the Tensilica Education Kit. The Tensilica Education Kit consists of five modules, which contain videos,...

It is still a time of online conferences, unidirectional presentations, hardly any audience interaction, very few questions, virtual meeting fatigue…does it have to be like this? The definitive answer is: NO! The DATE 2022 BarCamp organizer te...

The 2021 Women in Technology Scholarship recipients have provided inspiring lessons for us all. We asked these talented women about their passions, vision for the future, and advice to underrepresented groups in technology.

As part of the DAC Young Fellows Program at the annual Design Automation Conference, Cadence held a virtual training on High-Level Synthesis for students who earned digital badges upon completion. The Young Fellows Program gave students a variety of ...

A few months ago, I was contacted by Dobromir Gaydazhiev, director of Design Support team at GlobalFoundries who suggested to open an EDA lab at University of Sofia, to educate new generation of EDA engineers for the GF office in Bulgaria. The Cadenc...

The DATE conference, the biggest EDA conference in Europe will find place 14-23.03.2022, as virtual event. The Young People Program (YPP) at DATE conference is an initiative targeting PhD students with the goal of supporting their career development....

The Taiwan National IC Design was a great opportunity for Cadence and the Academic Network to build our brand with students, connect with academia and attract top talent in Taiwan. This was the fourth year that we sponsored the competi...

The University program within Arm was established with the aim of fostering an environment where industries can contribute to the education of the next generation of engineers. Their flagship offering to universities worldwide are freely accessi...

Cadence has quite a long history of releasing Generic PDKs for demonstration purposes. All Rapid Adoption Kits (RAKs) are based on one of the GPDKs, which are downloadable from support.cadence.com. For academic users, GPDK has the pleasant side ...

Photonics has quickly moved into mainstream electronic designs, especially in markets with heavy bandwidth demands including antenna and RF systems, bio-photonics, and environmental sensing systems. Photonics is the science and technology of generati...

CadenceLIVE Europe 2021 will be hosted on October 19th. This year will be a virtual event again, but we put in a lot of effort to make it entertaining and informative to fight the Zoom fatigue! The Academic Track had so many interesting papers to b...

Since Cadence acquired AWR last year, the Cadence Academic Network has been working to integrate the rich AWR University Program academic users into the Cadence University Program, provide existing AWR users new opportunities to connect them with oth...

In the final installment of our Diversity in Technology Scholarship blog series, we’re spotlighting the eight recipients of Cadence’s Latinx Students in Technology Scholarship and their stories. These students were chosen based on their o...