The CadenceConformal Litmus is a next-generation solution that provides constraints signoff and clock domain crossing (CDC) signoff, reducing overall design cycle times and enhancing the quality of silicon in complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs.

Cadence Design Systems has delivered the Accellera Portable Test and Stimulus Specification (PSS) 1.0-compliant implementation of the popular Cadence Perspec System Methodology Library (SML) and methodology documentation.

The Cadence digital full flow has achieved certification for the Samsung Foundry 5nm Low-Power Early (5LPE) process with Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology. The Cadence tools have been confirmed to meet Samsung Foundry’s technology requirements.

Availability of a Verification IP (VIP) in support of the new DisplayPort 2.0 standard has been announced by Cadence Design Systems. The Cadence VIP for DisplayPort 2.0 enables designers to quickly complete the functional verification of their mobile, Audio-Visual and AR/VR system-on-chip (SoC) designs with less effort and greater assurance that the design will operate as expected.

To meet functional safety requirements, Toshiba has implemented the Cadence Tensilica Vision P6 DSPs for its next-generation automotive SoC. The Vision P6 DSP provides high compute throughput with low power consumption, small core area and a strong partner ecosystem, and is certified to meet functional safety requirements.

Recent aerospace and defense innovations will be showcased by Cadence Design Systems at the Paris Air Show (June 17 to 20), 2019. At the event, Frank Schirrmeister, product management group director for Cadence is scheduled to deliver a workshop titled, “Systems of Systems Verification and Digital Twins for Aerospace Applications,” on Thursday, June 20 at 11 a.m. 

Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan has become the first university in Central Asia to join the Cadence Academic Network and become a Cadence Certified Lab. The certification was granted to the university after the completion of Cadence certified trainings by their teachers and examiners.  

Full-flow digital and signoff tools from Cadence were used by Socionext for the successful production tapeout of its latest large, 16nm ASIC chip and it has built a design environment for its 7nm designs. Using the capabilities of the integrated full flow, Socionext sped design closure on its 16nm design when compared with its previous solution.

The launch of Cadence Design Systems Cloud Passport Partner Program aims to give customers a proven and easier path to the cloud when their internal IT teams desire assistance. Cadence has engaged with program members to ensure they are knowledgeable and proficient at deploying Cadence tools in cloud-based electronic design environments.

The Spectre X Simulator from Cadence Design Systems is a massively parallel circuit simulator designed to provide up to 10X performance gains, while maintaining accuracy in analogue, mixed-signal and RF applications. The simulator can solve 5X larger designs when compared to previous simulation solutions, enabling customers to effectively simulate circuits containing millions of transistors and billions of parasitics in a post-layout verification...

Verification Suite and System Innovation offerings have been expanded at Cadence Design Systems with the announcement of the Protium X1 Enterprise Prototyping Platform, a data centre-optimised FPGA-based prototyping system providing multi-MHz speed for early software development, hardware/software regressions and full system validation.

It has been announced that Cadence Design Systems has expanded its Verification Suite and System Innovation offerings with the Cadence Protium X1 Enterprise Prototyping Platform, the first data centre-optimised FPGA-based prototyping system providing multi-MHz speed for early software development, hardware/software regressions and full system validation.

Full-flow digital and signoff tools from Cadence Design Systems now support the new high-performance, high-efficiency Arm Cortex-A77 CPU for next-generation smartphones, laptops, and other mobile devices. To accelerate the adoption of Arm’s latest processor, Cadence delivered a complete 7nm Rapid Adoption Kit (RAK) that utilises Arm 7nm POP IP libraries.

The full Cadence Verification Suite has been deployed by Thinci to accelerate the design and verification of its machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The Cadence Verification Suite provides Thinci access to new technologies and methodologies to achieve faster verification and design closure, shortening the product development schedule by months while improving simulation speed.

Innovium has adopted Cadence Design Systems’ Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform and Protium S1 FPGA-Based Prototyping Platform to achieve first-pass silicon success on its high-performance, scalable, production-ready TERALYNX ethernet switch for the data centre.

Targeting the automotive, AR/VR, drone, mobile, robotics and surveillance markets, Cadence Design Systems has expanded the high end of its Tensilica Vision DSP product family with the introduction of the Vision Q7 DSP delivering up to 1.82 tera operations per second (TOPS).

The verification market is growing as it represents more and more of the costs of chip design, and as processes move deeper into sub-micron territory, costs could be up to 80% for designers using 5nm nodes. To meet this challenge Cadence Design Systems has unveiled the third generation of its Jasper Gold Formal Verification Platform, featuring machine learning technology and core formal technology enhancements.

TSMC has certified Cadence Design System’s design solutions for the new TSMC System-on-Integrated-Chips (TSMC-SoIC) 3D advanced chip stacking technology, which integrates heterogenous chips—including logic ICs and memory—that are fabricated on different process nodes onto a single chip stack for a subsequent packaging process.

Good news for Cadence Design Systems is that its LPDDR4/4X memory IP subsystem, utilising TSMC’s 16nm FinFET Compact (16FFC) technology, has achieved ISO 26262 ASIL C certification from SGS-TÜV Saar. The certification confirms that the Cadence IP is complete and ready for use by customers creating advanced systems-on-chip (SoCs) for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and L3/L4 autonomous driving applications.

It has been announced by Cadence Design Systems that the Cadence Innovus Implementation System and Quantus Extraction Solution are now enabled for the Samsung Foundry Gate-All-Around (GAA) technology. The Cadence tools have been confirmed to meet Samsung Foundry’s technology requirements, which lets customers who produce high-end products for the mobile, networking, server and automotive markets leverage GAA technology.