The India Circuit Blogs

Following on from my last blog about the Cadence Scholarship Program, here is the second inspiring story featuring one of our students - Mousumi Ghorai. The Cadence Scholarship Program A few words about the Cadence Scholarship Program, in case you mi...

At Cadence, giving back to the communities where we live and work is an integral part of the our culture. Helping others is deeply rooted in our DNA and extending this into our communities is one aspect of how we make a difference in the world. One s...

CadenceLIVE 2020 India, our first digital conference held on 9-10 September and what an event it was! With 75 technical paper presentations, four keynotes, a virtual exhibition area, and fun gamification, CadenceLIVE once again proved to be one of th...

Today, we are living in the era where whatever we think of as an idea is not far from being implemented…thanks to machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) entering into the semiconductor industry. In this blog, I want to share my...

This week had a plethora of posts and articles on International Women's Day (IWD) that is celebrated on Mar 8. In fact, there are two blogs on the Cadence community page – one by Paul McLellan , and the other by Ashley Sneathen about the Cad...

Last Saturday, Cadence and Concern India Foundation hosted a very special event - a charity sports tournament for corporates called “5Cs” – the Corporate Citizenship Challenge for the Cause of Children. It is one of the most fun eve...

One of the industry’s biggest events, the VLSI Design Conference, took place in Bangalore last week. This conference does a round-robin of cities, and this was the 10th time in its 33-year history that Bangalore was hosting it (the last time wa...

The biggest happening in 2019 for India was, of course, the general elections. (Though some may argue that it was the ICC Cricket World Cup, which happens every four years!). While uncertainty and instability were prevalent across the world in 2019, ...

The India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) recently organized a two-day conference on Strategic Electronics, and, not surprisingly, the overriding message was that India needs indigenous chip design and wafer fabrication facilit...

At the recently-held CDNLive India 2019, Cadence’s annual user conference, we had a session by Cadence’s partners Green Hills Software. Green Hills Software is the worldwide leader in embedded safety and security. Cadence and Green Hills ...

What a whirlwind of two months it has been! And it has been totally worth it, with CDNLive India featuring a huge number of customers, fantastic user-authored presentations and insightful keynotes. A more detailed review will follow, but here is the ...

A few weeks ago, Cadence hosted an interesting panel discussion that talked about how AI is going to impact various industries. Panelists included Prosit Mukherjee from Qualcomm, Sanjay Gupta from NXP, and Rajbir Singh from MediaTek, and was moderate...

While the term "gig economy" has been around a long time, it has gained traction in India only since around 2014 when Indian gig economy companies that hire a part-time workforce, such as Swiggy and Zomato (food delivery), Dunzo (delivery s...

A few days ago, Cadence Bangalore, Noida and Pune sites had the opportunity to participate in a worldwide CSR initiative in collaboration with the NGO Rise Against Hunger (RAH). To celebrate our 30th Anniversary as a company, Cadence is partnering wi...

Recently we were lucky to have two of the women vice presidents at Cadence – Karna Nisewaner from the Legal team and Alessandra Costa who leads the Field Engineering team in North America – visit India and have interaction sessions with o...

The Indian elections are coming up! In just a few weeks, the first of seven phases of polling will start, kicking off the world’s largest exercise in democracy. The numbers are mind-boggling. For example, 900 million Indians are eli...

The India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) the industry body that represents the industry, had its annual conference – the IESA Vision Summit – in Bangalore last week. There were many eminent speakers, one of them being by...

There was a lot of excitement when the National Policy on Electronics was announced in 2012. However, in the six years that it has been in existence, it has not proven to be very effective in its aim of stemming the outflow of foreign exchange for el...

I did at 2017 retrospective last year and looking back at 2018 there was a lot that happened that is worth recapping. So here is my 2018 retrospective. 1. The semiconductor industry did well in 2018 According to the Semiconductor Industry Association...

One Cadence, One Team, aaaanddd... One Family! This time of year sees all the India sites celebrate the annual Family Days. It is a way for Cadence to thank employees’ families for all their support over the year and celebrate together as an ex...

It’s Diwali! My favorite festival out of all the many celebrations that we Indians have through the year. But Diwali nowadays is different from even just five years ago. I wrote last year about how there was a ban on lighting firecrackers (an i...

We were lucky to have Cadence CEO Lip-Bu Tan visit India recently, when he keynoted at CDNLive India. Lip-Bu always has interesting insights. He has always been very positive about the future of the semiconductor industry, and this year was no differ...

Better late than never! If you missed CDNLive India 2018 which took place on Sep 6 & 7, here are two fun videos that cover all the highlights. Day 1 https://youtu.be/QDuYxjGIYmQ Day 2 https://youtu.be/zEBC_tNf4CM

CDNLive India took place a few weeks ago and we are just trying to catch our breath! If you missed it, I'm going to be posting two cool videos before the weekend with the highlights. Here are two blogs by the veteran blogger Paul McLellan - one o...

1. The Cadence keynotes: Lip-Bu Tan on Day 1 and Babu Mandava on Day 2 Apart from being part of the executive management team at Cadence, both Lip-Bu and Babu are veterans of the industry. They have a wealth of experience and insight, and they will ...