For the Development of Electronic Systems and Semiconductors

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. launched the Cadence Cloud portfolio, the first broad cloud portfolio for the development of electronic systems and semiconductors.

The Cadence Cloud portfolio consists of Cadence-managed and customer-managed environments that enable electronic product developers to use the scalability of the cloud to securely manage the exponential increase in design complexity.

With the new portfolio offerings, customers gain access to improved productivity, scalability, security and flexibility, through scalable compute resources available in minutes or hours instead of months or weeks, achieving better overall throughput in the development process.

The announcement was made at the 55th annual Design Automation Conference(DAC) being held in San Francisco at Moscone Center West, June 25-28, 2018.

Cadence gained extensive cloud experience by hosting design environments for more than 100 customers of varying sizes and architecting many of its products to be massively parallel for improved scalability in the cloud.

“The cloud will fundamentally influence silicon design by giving semiconductor companies the ability to optimize their capital versus operational expenses for computing infrastructure,” said Suk Lee, senior director Design Infrastructure Marketing Division at TSMC.

“Cadence has passed our rigorous cloud security audits and is authorized to engage with mutual customers on the Cadence Cloud using TSMC process models and rule decks.”

“While many industries have previously adopted the cloud to address compute-intensive workloads, systems and semiconductor companies have faced unprecedented challenges that have made cloud adoption difficult until now,” said Richard Wawrzyniak, principal analyst for ASIC & SoC at Semico Research Corp.

The new Cadence Cloud portfolio is the first broad cloud offering for the development of electronic systems and semiconductors. It includes customer-managed and Cadence-managed cloud environments providing productivity, scalability, security and flexibility benefits that enable engineers to achieve electronic product design goals.

“Some of the challenges included security concerns and the sheer amount of design data and the inherent scalability limitations with electronic design automation tools. The Cadence approach to the cloud addresses historical industry issues, opening the door for customers to adopt the cloud and enter the next generation of chip design development.”

The Cadence Cloud portfolio includes support for customers who establish and manage their own IT and business relationships with Amazon Web Services(AWS), Google Cloud Platform(GCP) or Microsoft Azure.

The Cadence Cloud Passport model includes cloud-ready Cadence software tools that have been tested for use in the cloud, a cloud-based license server for high reliability and access to Cadence software through familiar download mechanisms.

The Cloud Passport model is well-suited for companies who have the means and expertise to manage their own cloud infrastructure internally.

The Cadence Cloud-Hosted Design Solution, also part of the Cadence Cloud portfolio, provides software tools in a fully-supported, managed and EDA-optimized design environment built on AWS or Microsoft Azure that has been customized for company-specific infrastructure requirements.

Cadence offers unique technologies, security and automation capabilities to enhance the usability and value of these environments.

For example, Cadence has developed a portal that easily provides cloud setup, maintenance and job management functionality in a rapidly deployable cloud environment to cover peak requirements in areas such as logic simulation and library characterization.

Start-ups and small companies can benefit from a customized cloud environment because it reduces the need for capital infrastructure investments and certain computer-aided design(CAD) and IT expenses, empowering these companies to offload their entire design environment and instead focus entirely on IC and system design innovation.

Medium to large companies can also benefit from Cadence-managed environments by moving an entire design project, a functional domain or peak compute workloads from their own datacenters to the cloud.

Additionally, Cadence introduced the Cadence Palladium Cloud solution, a directly delivered, cloud-based emulation solution that easily addresses peak needs of existing Palladium customers and brings emulation hardware access and benefits to new customers and markets. With the Palladium Cloud solution, customers purchase gate capacity, which is used when needed. Cadence maintains the emulation hardware in a professionally managed datacenter, freeing users from installation and operational responsibilities.

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