Cadence Academic Network Blogs

Last week, I visited the Cadathlon@ICCAD event at the 2019 International Conference on Computer Aided Design . It was my first CADathlon and I was quite intrigued, since the organizers webpage announced it boldly as the “Olympic Games...

The Cadence Academic Network hosted an Academic Speaker Series event, in collaboration with the Shanghai Site Technical Talk series, in Cadence Shanghai Office. The talk attracted more than 150 Cadence employees! I organized ...

There’s some exciting news about the Cadence OrCAD® Software , especially for academics! Generations of analog designers have used Cadence ® PSpice® Simulator , which is a part of the OrCAD package, as their first analog simulator. Now...

The Cadence Academic Network was very excited to host students from Duke Kunshan University ‘s Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the new Cadence Shanghai office on October 25, 2019. Cadence R&...

The popularity of the Tensilica day events in previous years (last year's presentations , blog ), led to increasing this year’s event from one day to two days of technical presentations and demos. As the tradition goes on, on 23rd and 24th of...

Cadence Academic Network was the exclusive sponsor of the first ever China Integrated Microsystem Simulation and Modeling Master Thesis Contest. The contest was hosted by the Integrated Microsystem Modeling and Simulation Committee, China Simulation ...

Let me introduce myself. My name is Min-Chun Hu, a master student majoring in electrical engineering (EE) at the National Tsing-Hua University (NTHU) in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Currently I am doing a nine-month internship at the world-renowned research inst...

CDNLive Cadence User Conference is an opportunity for Cadence technology users, developers, industry experts, and academia to come together to network, share best practices on critical design and verification issues, and discover new t...

School of Microelectronics of Xidian University , was set up in 2004 which is one of the National Instruction Bases for Integrated Circuit Talents approved by the Ministry of Education of China, has been hosting a Student Summer Training Camp for 5 ye...

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

The National Taiwan University hosted an EDA summer camp for the third consecutive year! Since “EDA" is an unfamiliar concept for many students, the  Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering National Taiwan University (NTU GIEE) and&nb...

Design contests are a unique way for students to get hands-on experience using Cadence® tools, while in a fun and competitive environment. It is important to the Cadence Academic Network to support design contests so that we can help the nex...

The International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) contest is a well-known competition in the EDA field, where the main idea is to have EDA companies share the industrial problems they are facing with the academic community to drive practical rese...

Those who have studied microelectronics in Europe since 1989 have certainly heard about Europractice and have probably used EDA technologies provided by them. Though most refer to Europractice as an organization, it is actually an EU-funded project, ...

Cadence San Jose was happy to host a group of undergraduate students from Carnegie Mellon University . Through the Real World Engineering program , students from CMU get the opportunity to visit different companies in Silicon Valley, Pittsbur...

Dear reader, may I ask you, what do you know about Kazakhstan ? Do you know that Kazakhstan is the 9th largest country on earth? I It is nearly four times the size of Texas. Do you know that it is between China and the European part of Russia? Kazakhs...

There is always a need for verification engineers in the microelectronics industry. The costs of verification have long ago surpassed the costs of implementation, but still the focus in academia is on implementation and not too many universities offe...

CDNLive EMEA 2019 was held May 6-8 in Munich, Germany. Bayern Munich did not qualify for the Champions League this year, so we were completely undisturbed and could listen to presentations, visit the exhibition, explore new ideas on collaboration and...

The IEEE Latin-American Test Symposium (LATS) is an annual forum attended by professionals and technologists from all over the world. It is an event where various aspects of system, board, and component testing and fault-tolerance are presented...

Santosh S Malagi was a student pursuing his master’s in Computer Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. There is an academic partnership between Cadence and imec , a world-renowned research institute for microelect...

China Graduate IC Design Contest Contest Duration: April – August 2018 This is Cadence’s second time supporting the China Graduate IC Design Contest. This contest provided graduate students with the opportunity to develop creative electro...

Cadence Academic Network and Taiwan Marketing co-supported the annual VLSI Design/CAD Symposium in Taiwan for the 3rd consecutive year. This year, around 800 local industry experts, academic experts, and students attended the symposium held in Tainan...

Date: August 14, 2018 Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan Agenda The Cadence User Conference, CDNLive Taiwan, on August 14, 2018, was a popular and successful event with over 1000 attendees. In addition, the Academic Network had their first ever Academic Track...

From 7-9.05 the CDNLive circus made it stop in Munich / Germany for full three days. For Academic Network in EMEA this is the most important event through the year, as we are organizing the Academic Track and invite our academic partners to attend, p...

2018 was the second year Cadence Academic Network supported the VLSI-DAT Symposium in Hsinchu, Taiwan on April 16-18. We connected with around 500 attendees from local industry and academia. Taiwan is renowned as an IC design powerhouse. The VLS...