Cloud portfolio optimised for customer and company managed environments

Cadence hope that with the new portfolio offerings, customers will 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.

Suk Lee, Senior Director Design Infrastructure Marketing Division at TSMC, stated: “The cloud will fundamentally influence silicon design by giving semiconductor companies the ability to optimise their capital versus operational expenses for computing infrastructure. Cadence has passed our rigorous cloud security audits and is authorised to engage with mutual customers on the Cadence Cloud using TSMC process models and rule decks.”

Customer Managed Environments 

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 Cadence software tools that have been tested for use, 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.

Cadence Managed Environments

The Cadence Cloud-Hosted Design Solution provides software tools in a fully supported, managed and EDA optimised design environment built on AWS or Microsoft Azure that has been customised for company-specific infrastructure requirements. Cadence offers technologies, security and automation capabilities to enhance the usability and value of these environments.

Start-ups and small companies can benefit from a customised cloud environment because it reduces the need for capital infrastructure investments and certain Computer Aided Design (CAD) and IT expenses, allowing companies to instead focus entirely on IC and system design innovation.

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

Additionally, Cadence introduced the Cadence Palladium Cloud solution, a cloud based emulation solution that addresses peak needs of existing Palladium customers and brings emulation hardware access and benefits to new customers and markets.

Cloud Benefits for Systems and Semiconductor Companies

The Cadence Cloud portfolio was developed with the aim of providing the following benefits for systems and semiconductor companies:

• Improved productivity: EDA optimised compute resources that enable engineers to achieve productivity improvements with the potential to deliver innovative chips and systems to market faster.
• Intelligent scalability: Enables the proper selection of the type and configuration of compute for chip and system design projects, scaling the infrastructure up and down based on need.
• Optimised security: Expands upon the native security provided by cloud providers with additional security layers, best practises and penetration testing.
• Flexibility: Includes Cadence-managed and customer-managed options to meet specific business requirements with a choice of cloud deployment options—AWS, GCP or Microsoft Azure. The Cadence Cloud portfolio can be customised to offload a peak need, part of a flow or a full project in any combination customers need.

Dr. Anirudh Devgan, President of Cadence, said: “We’ve delivered the Cadence Cloud portfolio to address the challenges our customers face—the unsustainable peak compute needs created by complex chip designs and exponentially increasing design data. By leading this industry shift to the cloud, we’re enabling our customers to adopt the cloud quickly and easily and are further executing upon our System Design Enablement vision, which enables our customers to be more productive and get to market faster.”