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Cadence Blog – Latest Posts

Cadence Joins Intel Foundry Accelerator Design Services Alliance
Cadence is expanding its collaboration with Intel Foundry by officially joining the Intel Foundry Accelerator Design Services Alliance ! This collaboration amplifies both companies' efforts to drive innovation, support advanced chip design, and solidify Intel Foundry as ...
Mar 14, 2025
Conformal AI Studio Improves SoC Designer Productivity by 10X
Next-generation suite includes AI-driven equivalence, ECO automation, and low-power static signoff products To address the impact of growing SoC design complexity on formal equivalence checking, Cadence has launched Conformal AI Studio—a new suite of logic equivalence check...
Mar 13, 2025
Conformal AI Studio: Accelerated LEC/ECO/LP with AI/ML-Driven Enhancements
If you're a chip designer or verification engineer, you have likely spent countless hours stressing over whether your design block is functionally accurate; in other words, "Will my chip actually do what it's supposed to?" Today, Cadence is announcing the ...
Mar 13, 2025
Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR13 Now Available
Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR13 production release is now available at Cadence Downloads . The README.txt file in the installation directory provides information about supported platforms and other release compatibility. IC23.1 ISR13 Here are the highlights from the recent Virtu...
Mar 13, 2025
Decision-Makers Say Digital Twins Are a Game Changer for Data Center Innovation
The data center industry is on the brink of rapid transformation, driven by emerging technologies that promise to reshape its future. To assess the current ability of the data center industry to capitalize on the technologies that could transform it, Cadence's latest rep...
Mar 12, 2025
USB4 Port Operations
Designs are tested in the labs for various electrical compliance tests defined in the electrical compliance test specifications before getting certified. There are defined processes and steps that a design must go through for such testing. Such tests are focused tests and nee...
Mar 12, 2025
DesignCon 2025 Highlights and Papers on Demand
The Cadence MSA team had a GREAT DesignCon highlighting how Cadence can help you accelerate your PCB and advanced IC packaging design cycles with electromagnetic, electronic, and thermal system analysis, and tackle advanced IC packaging and cross-platform challenges. Here’s...
Mar 11, 2025
Time on Your Side: Launching PSS Perspec Composer
We all agree that time is precious. As PSS ( Portable Stimuli Standard ) models get larger, the time it takes for the whole model to be loaded in Cadence Perspec Composer might become meaningful. In this blog, we will look into two practices that help you reduce this time. Sa...
Mar 11, 2025

 

Chalk Talks Featuring Cadence

Faster, More Predictable Path to Multi-Chiplet Design Closure
The challenges for 3D IC design are greater than standard chip design - but they are not insurmountable. In this episode of Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton chats with Vinay Patwardhan from Cadence Design Systems about the variety of challenges faced by 3D IC designers today and how Cadence’s integrated, high-capacity Integrity 3D IC Platform, with its 3D design planning and implementation cockpit, flow manager and co-design capabilities will not only help you with your next 3D IC design.
Mar 3, 2022
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Enabling Digital Transformation in Electronic Design with Cadence Cloud
With increasing design sizes, complexity of advanced nodes, and faster time to market requirements - design teams are looking for scalability, simplicity, flexibility and agility. In today’s Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton chats with Mahesh Turaga about the details of Cadence’s end to end cloud portfolio, how you can extend your on-prem environment with the push of a button with Cadence’s new hybrid cloud and Cadence’s Cloud solutions you can help you from design creation to systems design and more.
Mar 3, 2022
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Machine-Learning Optimized Chip Design -- Cadence Design Systems
New applications and technology are driving demand for even more compute and functionality in the devices we use every day. System on chip (SoC) designs are quickly migrating to new process nodes, and rapidly growing in size and complexity. In this episode of Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton chats with Rod Metcalfe about how machine learning combined with distributed computing offers new capabilities to automate and scale RTL to GDS chip implementation flows, enabling design teams to support more, and increasingly complex, SoC projects.
Oct 14, 2021
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Cloud Computing for Electronic Design (Are We There Yet?)
When your project is at crunch time, a shortage of server capacity can bring your schedule to a crawl. But, the rest of the year, having a bunch of extra servers sitting around idle can be extremely expensive. Cloud-based EDA lets you have exactly the compute resources you need, when you need them. In this episode of Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton chats with Craig Johnson of Cadence Design Systems about Cadence’s cloud-based EDA solutions.
May 8, 2020
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