Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality.
Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace, industrial and health.
We offer solutions for:
Semiconductor and system companies, offering the broadest, most integrated end-to-end solution to help today’s electronic designers do their best work creating tomorrow’s products, for:
Silicon design creation, simulation, implementation, and signoff of analog and digital circuits; off-the-shelf design IP; and IC packaging, including machine learning-enhanced EDA tools and machine learning-enabled EDA flows.
System design of advanced packaging, safe and secure embedded software, and PCBs; analysis of electromagnetic and electrothermal effects of semiconductors, packages, boards, and systems; and co-optimization with semiconductor devices.
Intelligence IP for design of inference processing in edge devices.
In this QuickChat, Senior Editor David Maliniak sits down with Product Management Director Gary Lytle to discuss Cadence's new Clarity software and the benefits it offers to users...
Cadence's Joules RTL Design Studio delivers up to 5X faster register-transfer-level convergence and up to 25% improved QoR through fast, accurate, and early physical insight and...
Software design tools can shave the time and expense of multiple development iterations when striving for a first-round success or when making modifications to improve performance...
Microwaves & RF's newly formed Editorial Advisory Board will give us an additional avenue into gaining industry insights that we can pass along to our audience.
Concerns about power-amplifier heating and operating temps aren’t new as they affect device reliability and performance. However, RF designers must broaden the scope of thermal...
System design teams can quickly and accurately simulate large and complex hyperscale, automotive, mobile, and aerospace and defense systems for EMC/EMI compliance.
Expanding 5G/6G connectivity to include network-to-smart device communications, combined with AI and IoT, will usher in a new industrial wave and offer greater business value ...
A workflow that combines measurement-based models with discrete part-value optimization can aid designers by automatically adjusting a design’s component values to optimal manufacturer...
Modelithics now offers over 68 models, representing over 130 individual Mini-Circuits components, that include amplifiers, filters and splitters, among others.
With 5G comes with huge cost and power implications, thus requiring a shift back from FPGA platforms to ASICs. What are the reasons for the move, and how can it be done cost-effectively...
Cadence's Sherry Hess, chair of the IEEE MTT-S Women in Microwaves subcommittee, discusses her career in the industry and the subcommittee's work to mentor and enhance the profiles...
As momentum builds for large markets in 5G and radar systems in self-driving vehicles, design engineers rely more and more on the models and simulation capabilities of software...
As the applications extrapolate for wireless devices and interest grows in millimeter-wave frequencies, the RF/microwave industry gathers together with great optimism for the ...
Power-amplifier (PA) designers can take advantage of software that allows them to utilize complex load-pull data sets, thereby streamlining the design process.
This application note describes how the various capabilities of design software play a role in the development of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) at 10 GHz.
The exhibition area is open for slightly less than three days, and visitors can easily spend all of their time just scouring the sections of the show floor and the companies devoted...
Engineers designing today’s wireless handheld devices and infrastructure equipment are accustomed to accurate, reliable simulation tools. However, they recognize that power amplifiers...
By providing a global gathering for all microwave technologists, the IEEE MTT International Microwave Symposium (IMS) again promises to be the gem of Microwave Week.
RF integration is reaching an all-time high, as RF components that were previously external to the system processors are finding themselves neighbors with the GPUs and CPUs of...
The evolution of modern CAE software has integrated many different tools to greatly simplify the task of the modern RF/microwave circuit and system designer.
At IMS 2013, Microwaves & RF presented the first-annual "Best of Microwaves" awards, recognizing companies that are at the forefront of providing resources to microwave engineers...
By combining passive component models with EDA software, this solution promises to improve design flow efficiency while paving the way for first pass design success.
Antenna software can provide a catalog of antennas with documentation, design algorithms, and export models, allowing an engineer to quickly explore various antenna options during...
To satisfy the time, cost, and performance demands for the power amplifiers (PAs) required by today’s wireless applications, designers should rely on the right design automation...
Designing circuits and systems for high-power applications requires a good deal of imagination. Knowing the limits of the different parts that make up a high-power component or...
The Asian leg of the AWR Design Forum (ADF) computer-aided-engineering-(CAE)-software-based technical conference, sponsored by AWR Corp., concluded with hundreds of attendees ...
The 2012 IMS features a wide range of in-booth simulation software demonstrations, including AWR's at booth No. 1514. In addition to sponsoring its traditional Customer Appreciation...
The shows exhibition floor promises to be full of activity, with a healthy cross-section of the RF/microwave industrys companies unleashing new products.
Selecting high-frequency CAE design software from such a wide range of available choices requires clearly defined design goals and knowing what type of help is needed.
Richardson RFPDHas entered into a worldwide sales-distribution agreement with Analog Devices. Richardson RFPD will support the design-in of ADI's RF integrated circuits (ICs) ...
From humble beginnings solving impedance-matching equations on time-share computers, microwave design software has evolved into multiple-function suites of solvers, models, and...
Engineers relied on the knowledge of fundamental electrical relationships, such as Ohms Law, until improvements in computers enabled practical modeling and circuit analysis by...
Since the spring, the industry has been waiting to see results of National Instruments' acquisition of AWR Corp. A hint of what the combined entities can offer is provided in ...
A filter design program adds power, speed, and accuracy through its addition of co-simulation capabilities, thanks to some well-known electromagnetic simulation software tools...
In addition to acquiring Phase Matrix, Inc., National Instruments (NI) has signed a definitive merger agreement with AWR Corp. With these moves, NI, a supplier of PXI modular ...
High-frequency oscillators and frequency synthesizers are achieving new performance peaks in smaller packages, keeping the pressure on test equipment suppliers to lower their ...
As computers grow in processing power, electromagnetic simulators follow, taking advantage of the added processing power to perform both planar and 3D analysis of high-frequency...
At RF and microwave frequencies, the more pertinent question often is, "What is the package?" At higher frequencies, the package can have as much effect on the performance as ...
Design software supplier AWR has announced Version 2009 of its Analog Office high-frequency analog and RFIC design software. This latest release includes AWR's patent-pending ...
Design software suppliers AWR and AMPSA have announced a relationship by which AMPSA's Multimatch amplifier design technology is available as an optional module into AWR's popular...
HIGHLIGHTS Key Benefits Software developers, component suppliers, and EDA vendors are teaming to improve model accuracy, expand libraries, and enhance simulation tools. With updated...
Today's microwave designers are increasingly dependent on electromagnetic (EM) solvers and circuit extractors. More synergy is now needed between circuit simulation and layout...
Computer-aided-engineering (CAE) innovator AWR has added to its product portfolio via the acquisition of Simulation Technology and Applied Research, Inc. (STAAR) of Mequon, WI...
Design software house Applied Wave Research (AWR) and foundry austriamicrosystems AG introduced an Open Access process design kit (PDK) for austriamicrosystems' S35 0.35-micron...
Electronic-design-automation (EDA) software innovator Applied Wave Research (AWR) is marking its 10th anniversary of service to the high-frequency industry this December. The ...
Applied Wave Research, Inc. has augmented its Microwave Office(R) 2007 design software simulation library with sixth-generation laterally-diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS...
