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Cadence Blog – Latest Posts

Data Center Digital Twins: How Simulation Improves Design and Performance
Data center digital twins are transforming data center design from assumption-based planning to physics-backed simulation—well before the first rack is deployed. By combining physics simulations with real operational data, a data center digital twin enables teams to predict...
Feb 19, 2026
Virtuoso Studio: Layout Editor Productivity Enhancements Blog Series
Our new AI-powered custom design solution, Virtuoso Studio, leverages our 30 years of industry knowledge and leadership, providing innovative features, reimagined infrastructure for unrivaled productivity, and new levels of integration that stretch beyond classic design bound...
Feb 19, 2026
Data Center Operations, DCIM, and Monitoring
In today’s digital world, data centers underpin cloud services, streaming, enterprise apps, and e-commerce. Keeping them operational around the clock is complex. Even brief outages can disrupt operations and lead to significant losses. According to data, outages remain a co...
Feb 19, 2026
Predicting High-Lift Aerodynamics of the Dornier 228 Using Fidelity CFD
Dornier 228 wind tunnel model installed in the RUAG LWTE (Pal et al., 2024) High-lift configurations are where aircraft aerodynamics become complicated. When flaps are deflected, flow is bent aggressively, pressure gradients intensify, and separation begins to lurk around eve...
Feb 19, 2026
The Memory Imperative for Next-Generation AI Accelerator SoCs
The tremendous growth in large language model (LLM) size corresponds with an equally dramatic rise in agentic AI applications, which are being adopted rapidly across both enterprise and consumer markets. To accommodate this demand, hyperscale providers are deploying next-gene...
Feb 18, 2026
Virtuoso Studio: Excellent XL - Next-Gen Layouts with Virtuoso Layout XL
Our new AI-powered custom design solution, Virtuoso Studio, leverages our 30 years of industry knowledge and leadership, providing innovative features, reimagined infrastructure for unrivaled productivity, and new levels of integration that stretch beyond classic design bound...
Feb 17, 2026
Accelerating Chiplet Interoperability
In the chiplet marketplace, the vision of a library of chiplets that can be mixed and matched requires interoperability between chiplets (sometimes from different sources), meaning standardization is essential. By establishing common chiplet system standards, designers will b...
Feb 16, 2026
A Journey Through 2025: PCB and Package Design Learning in Motion
Happy New Year! As we enter into a new year, we want to take a moment to reflect on an exciting journey throughout 2025—a year characterized by innovation, growth, and ongoing learning in PCB and Package Design . Over the past twelve months, we have published 17 in-depth bl...
Feb 12, 2026

 

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
43,364 views
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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How Switch Provides Unparalleled Exascale Data Center Solutions with Cadence and NVIDIA
Learn how Switch, a leading designer, builder, and operator of U.S. exascale data centers, is taking their data center’s cooling capabilities even further. In the past 20 years, Switch has built some of the densest air-cooled data center environments. With AI taking off in the last couple of years, see how they were able to deploy many of the first NVIDIA H100 clusters inside using Cadence’s Reality Digital Twin Platform for pre-modeling, design, and validation.facilities.
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How NV5, NVIDIA, and Cadence Collaboration Optimizes Data Center Efficiency, Performance, and Reliability
Deploying data centers with AI high-density workloads and ensuring they are capable for anticipated power trends requires insight. Creating a digital twin using the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform helped plan the deployment of current workloads and future-proof the investment. Learn about the collaboration between NV5, NVIDIA, and Cadence to optimize data center efficiency, performance, and reliability. 
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Larsen & Toubro Builds Data Centers with Effective Cooling Using Cadence Reality DC Design
Larsen & Toubro built the world’s largest FIFA stadium in Qatar, the world’s tallest statue, and one of the world’s most sophisticated cricket stadiums. Their latest business venture? Designing data centers. Since IT equipment in data centers generates a lot of heat, it’s important to have an efficient and effective cooling system. Learn why, Larsen & Toubro use Cadence Reality DC Design Software for simulation and analysis of the cooling system.
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In the AI era, as the signal-data rate increases, the signal integrity challenges in server designs also increase. Wiwynn provides hyperscale data centers with innovative cloud IT infrastructure, bringing the best total cost of ownership (TCO), energy, and energy-itemized IT solutions from the cloud to the edge.
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