
In 2019, Protium X1 rack-based prototyping was introduced, which Cadence claimed supported a 1.2 billion gate SoCs at around 5 MHz. In 2017, Cadence introduced the Protium S1 built on Xilinx Virtex UltraScale FPGAs. FPGA prototyping platform was officially introduced in 2014. Cadence's Palladium emulator was originally from Cadence's Quickturn acquisition in 1998. In 2015, Cadence announced the Palladium Z1 Hardware emulation platform, with over 100 million gates per hour compile speed, and greater than 1 MHz execution for billion-gate designs.
CADENCE VIRTUOSO SOFTWARE VERIFICATION
In 2014, Cadence announced vManager, a verification management tool for tracking verification process, including coverage, using emulation, simulation and/or formal technology as the data source(s).
CADENCE VIRTUOSO SOFTWARE PORTABLE
In mid-2018, Cadence announced that Perspec supported the new Accellera Portable Test and Stimulus Standard (PSS) standard Perspec was announced in 2014, for defining and verifying system-level verification scenarios, and then creating test cases to verify the scenarios using constraint-solving technology. In 2019, Cadence announced new machine learning technology to automate JasperGold solver selection and parameterization to achieve faster first-time proofs additionally to optimize regression runs. JasperGold is a formal verification tool, initially introduced in 2003. Xcelium is a parallel simulator, introduced in 2017, based on a multi-core parallel computing architecture. Other Cadence RTL to GDS II tools: Conformal Equivalence Checker, Stratus High-Level Synthesis, Joules Power Analysis, Quantus RC Extraction, Modus AutomaticTest Pattern Generation. Cerebrus utilizes a reinforcement learning approach to increase efficiency each time the optimization process is repeated. In July 2021, Cadence announced its machine learning-based Cerebrus chip explorer product to automatically optimize the Cadence digital design flow for specified power, performance, and area goals across multiple blocks. In March 2020, Cadence announced that its Innovus place and route engine and optimizer were now integrated into Genus Synthesis, with both tools using a common user interface and database. ĭigital Implementation & Sign-off Technologies

Used for communications, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, computer and consumer electronics. AWR is a radio frequency to millimeter wave design environment for designing 5G/ wireless products.In June 2019, Cadence introduced Spectre X parallel circuit simulator, so that users could distribute time- and frequency-domain simulations across hundreds of CPUs for faster runtime and speed. Used mainly for analog, mixed-signal, RF, and standard-cell designs, but also memory and FPGA designs. Tools for designing full-custom integrated circuits includes schematic entry, behavioral modeling ( Verilog-AMS), circuit simulation, custom layout, physical verification, extraction and back-annotation. The company develops software, hardware and intellectual properties (IP) used to design chips, systems and printed circuit boards, as well as IP covering interfaces, memory, analog, SoC peripherals, data plane processing units, and verification. Devgan joined Cadence in 2012 and was appointed president in 2017. In July 2021, Cadence stated Anirudh Devgan will assume the role of president and CEO and Lip-Bu Tan will become executive chairman on December 15, 2021.

Tan had been most recently CEO of Walden International, a venture capital firm, where he remains chairman of the firm. In January 2009, the Cadence's board of directors voted unanimously to confirm Lip-Bu Tan as President and CEO. In 2008, Cadence's board appointed Lip-Bu Tan as acting CEO, after the resignation of Mike Fister Tan had served on the Cadence Board of Directors since 2004. In 2004, Mike Fister became Cadence's new CEO. Executive Leadership įollowing the resignation of Cadence's original CEO Joe Costello in 1997, Jack Harding was appointed CEO. SDA's CEO Joseph Costello was appointed as CEO of the newly combined company.
