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Accelerating Chiplet Innovation with a New Partner Ecosystem

The semiconductor industry is currently undergoing a massive shift. As we push the…

Mick Posner
• 4 min read
IP , featured , chiplets , physical ai , OCP FCSA

The Memory Imperative for Next-Generation AI Accelerator SoCs

The tremendous growth in large language model (LLM) size corresponds with an equally…

Subash Peddu
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featured , HBM , SoC , AI

Scale-Up and Scale-Out IP for Optical Interconnect for Accelerated Computing

Optical connectivity is foundational to modern data centers, enabling high-bandwidth…

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• 4 min read
featured , AI data center , AI factory , Data Center architecture
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Boosting AI Performance with CXL

AI workloads are outpacing traditional memory architectures—but CXL®︎ offers a smarter…

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CXL , Design IP , IP , controller , PCIe

The Next-Generation UCIe IP Subsystem for Advanced Package Designs

With the rapidly increasing connectivity demands driven by AI/ML and HPC/data center…

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ucie , Design IP , featured , TSMC , die-to-die , HPC , AI

Cadence Powers AI Infra Summit '25: Memory, Interconnect, and Interface Focus

AI is driving a new semiconductor renaissance—it's no longer just a workload, but…

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controller IP , ucie , Design IP , IP , Memory , AISummit , 224G-LR , HBM , hbm4 , memory IP , Ethernet , AI training , Ethernet PHYs , UALink , AI , data centers , AIInfraSummit

Design for Reliability: Midas Safety Platform

In today’s safety-critical applications—automotive, aerospace, industrial automation…

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Rethinking AI Infrastructure: The Rise of PCIe Switches

Boring? Think Again. PCIe Switches Are the Hidden Power Behind AI When thinking of…

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controller IP , CXL , PCIe controller , Design IP , PCIe Gen4 , pcie4 , PCIe 7.0 , IP design , PCIe , future of IP , PCIe PHY , PCIe 6.0 , PCI Express

Cadence Drives Next-Gen Memory and Connectivity at FMS 2025

As AI data centers continue to scale up and out to accommodate increasingly compute…

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CNNs and Transformers: Decoding the Titans of AI

In the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, two neural network architectures…

• 8 min read
IP , ip cores , Tensilica , SSG , semiconductor IP , AI

From "What-If" to "What-Is": Cadence IP Validation for Silicon Platform Success

Data rates are escalating with seemingly no end in sight due to the insatiable demand…

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Next-Gen Memory Starts Here: Cadence at the Future of Memory and Storage

FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage is fast approaching (August 5-7 at the Santa…

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ddr5 , Design IP , Memory , FMS , PCIe , SerDes , UALink

Designing the AI Factories: Unlocking Innovation with Intelligent IP

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the technological…

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LPDDR6: A New Standard and Memory Choice for AI Data Center Applications

LPDDR SDRAM, initially developed for low-power mobile devices such as smartphones…

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ddr5 , Design IP , LPDDR , hbm4 , LPDDR Controller IP , lpddr5x , AI training , Lpddr6

Role of Time-of-Flight Sensors in Automotive

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Automotive , IP , Tensilica DSPs , ip cores , Tensilica , vision , Xtensa , semiconductor IP , ADAS , image processing

Redefining SoC Design: The Shift to Secure Chiplet-Based Architectures

The semiconductor industry is undergoing a paradigm shift from monolithic system…

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Cadence Leads the Way at PCI-SIG DevCon 2025 with Groundbreaking PCIe 7.0 Demos

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Time-of-Flight Decoding with Tensilica Vision DSPs - AI's Role in ToF Decoding

In our previous blog, we discussed the fundamentals of time-of-flight (ToF) technology…

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Arm Zena CSS – Accelerating Chiplet-Based SoC Design for AI-Defined Vehicles

Cadence is collaborating with Arm on their groundbreaking first-generation compute…

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Enhancing Edge AI with the Newest Class of Processor: Tensilica NeuroEdge 130 AI

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Linux-Based Audio Platform with Cadence Tensilica HiFi 5

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CadenceLIVE 2025: The Field Guide for Defense Digital Engineering

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Time-of-Flight Decoding with Tensilica Vision DSPs

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Cadence San Jose Hosts JEDEC LPDDR Task Group Meeting

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HBM4 Boosts Memory Performance for AI Training

The recent HBM4 specification announced by JEDEC is great news for developers of…

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Functional Safety in a Disaggregated World

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How Physical AI Is Redefining the Automotive Industry

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Cadence Silicon Success of UCIe IP on Samsung Foundry’s 5nm Automotive Process

We are thrilled to announce that Cadence has successfully demonstrated first-pass…

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AI's Rapid Growth: The Crucial Role of High Bandwidth Memory

System efficiency is dictated by the performance of crucial components. For AI hardware…

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Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) RTOS on Xtensa Multicore

An increasing number of multi-threaded embedded applications want to leverage multicore…

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