Earn, Validate, and Showcase Your IC Design and Verification Expertise

The semiconductor industry continues to evolve through  AI-driven design flows, advanced verification methodologies, and increasingly complex SoCs. To stay competitive, engineers must continuously expand their knowledge and demonstrate their expertise in a visible way.

That is where Cadence Training, Training Bytes, and Digital Badges come together.

Your Skills Deserve More Than a Certificate

Every completed course and mastered skill is an investment in your career. Traditional certificates, however, can remain hidden in a folder or inbox. Digital badges make those achievements visible and verifiable. Issued by Cadence and verified through Credly, Cadence Digital Badges provide trusted proof of your expertise that can be easily shared across:

• LinkedIn
• Email signatures
• Internal company profiles
• Professional portfolios
• Social media platforms

Your skills become visible, verifiable, and recognized wherever your career takes you.

Learn Your Way

All you need to get started is a Cadence ASK Account. Cadence offers multiple ways to build expertise across IC Design and Verification technologies.

Build Deep Knowledge with Structured Training

Instructor-led training and online training combine theory, best practices, and hands-on exercises to help engineers become productive faster. These trainings are available across:

• Analog design and simulation
• Analog physical design and verification
• RF/Microwave and system design
• Mixed-signal modeling, simulation, and verification

Solve Focused Challenges with Training Bytes

Need to learn something quickly? Training Bytes provide focused, bite-sized learning experiences designed to address specific workflows, tool features, and design challenges. Perfect for busy engineers, Training Bytes help you:

• Learn new features rapidly
• Solve immediate design challenges
• Refresh existing knowledge
• Explore new technologies without committing to a full course.

Small investment. Immediate impact

Turn Learning into Recognition

Completing training is only the first step. Many Cadence courses now include Digital Badge Exams, enabling learners to validate their knowledge and earn credentials that demonstrate real-world competency.

How to Earn a Digital Badge

Getting started is simple:

Your achievement can then be seen immediately by recruiters, hiring managers, customers, colleagues, and industry peers.

Popular and Newly Released Badge-Eligible Training

Let me now introduce you to some of the most popular and newly released trainings with the digital badge option!

Analog Custom Design Migration using Virtuoso Studio Training

MnPVT Characterization of Standard Cells Using Liberate Trio Training

Cadence Analog IC Design Flow

Virtuoso Layout Design Basics vIC25.1

Virtuoso Schematic Editor S1: Creating Design Schematics vIC25.1

S-Parameter Simulations Using Spectre in Virtuoso Studio SPECTRE25.1

Take the Accelerated Way

The faster you finish your online training, the sooner you can claim your Digital Badge. A short, accelerated video introduces the pre-quiz, navigation, and essential features. This is just the beginning. Cadence continues to add new Accelerated Learning titles. These courses are identified with the accelerated learning symbol   in our Learning Maps.  

Learn. Validate. Showcase.

Because in IC design and verification, your expertise deserves to be recognized. 

Did You Know?

The Cadence YouTube channel includes a Customer Education Training Bytes and a Shorts playlist. These videos provide access to a variety of Training Bytes without requiring a Cadence ASK account.

Related Resources

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Training Insights Accelerated Learning–The More You Know, the Faster You Go

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Contact Us

For any questions or general feedback, please write to custom_ic_blogs@cadence.com.

Ulrike Munz

On behalf of the Cadence Education Services Team