Cadence Design Systems - Technical Innovation of the Year
Company: Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, CA
Company Description: Cadence is a leader in electronic design and computational software. We apply our Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality. From chip to board to systems, we empower dynamic applications in the products used in everyday life from consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G, automotive, aerospace, industrial and health
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Technical Innovation of the Year - At Organizations With 1,000 or More Employees
Nomination Title: Cadence Dynamic Duo - Technical Innovation of the Year
Cadence is a pivotal leader helping to drive intelligent electronic chip, system design, and hardware, building upon more than 30 years of computational software, design automation expertise. The company’s steadfast focus is on delivering the world’s most advanced hardware and electronic products that help turn creative concepts into reality.
Our constant ability to innovate and stay ahead of design complexity and shrinking geometries allows companies to deliver extraordinary products that are innovative, safe, and secure—ultimately improving our lives through the products we use every day. These products touch nearly every industry today including applications in consumer and gaming, mobile, hyperscale computing, 5G communications and networking, automotive, aerospace, industrial, and health/medical.
Cadence Design Systems prides itself on creating and sustaining a company culture that drives innovation and business success. We promote a “One Cadence—One Team” philosophy that fosters inclusion and embraces diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas to help us solve technology’s toughest challenges. Cadence is recognized as a Great Place to Work around the world, including as one of the Fortune “100 Best Companies to Work For” over the last seven years.
Cadencedelivers year after year, introducing technology that addresses the complexities brought about by the explosion of data and raw compute power. This, along with the influx of artificial intelligence/machine learning, has brought about requirements that force companies to turn to those that have the foundational expertise and toolsets to address the demands of today and into the future. Introduced in April of 2021, Cadence's Dynamic Duo is our best-in-class emulation and prototyping solution. It refers to the integratedsolution of two of Cadence’s recently introduced systems: the emulation platform, Palladium Z2; and the prototyping platform, Protium X2. This latest generation thesetools combinedas one solution, createone revolutionary offeringthat deliversunprecedented improvements to a verification engineer’s experience.
Dynamic Duo allows verification engineers to test multiple emulation use cases faster than before, even before the register-transfer level (RTL) code is finalized. It can turnaround a 10B gate design in under 10 hours and offers a high-performance debug engine, FullVision 2.0.
For prototyping, the Dynamic Duo, allows teams to implement FPGA-based prototypes, vastly accelerating the development and verification process, thereby accelerating time to revenue. This lets engineers catch hardware problems and begin validating software before a chip is, physically made, significantly improved development timetable.
Dynamic Duo is revolutionizing the fields of emulation and prototyping. The explosive growth in chip sizes and complexity in the past few years demands a powerful and scalable set of tools. The Dynamic Duo delivers.
As the previous generations, Palladium Z1 and Protium X1 have been the leading enterprise level emulation and FPGA-based prototyping platform for several years. The all-new Dynamic Duo consisting of both are taking emulation and Prototyping to the next level, with the initial customers embracing the systems enthusiastically.
Nvidia, an early adopter of the new Dynamic Duo, expressed their need for a highly powerful and scalable set of emulation and prototyping tools to meet the demands of future technology. Chip sizes are doubling every two years, and designs are only increasing in complexity. The congruent nature of the compilers allow for an easy transfer of a design from an emulator to an FPGA-based system—a transfer that was previously difficult. Nvidia feels confident that a given design question can be moved from emulator to FPGA-based prototyping without any component being misrepresented or corrupted, and this transfer can be done incredibly quickly—what used to take two or three days now only takes four hours with the new Dynamic Duo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlRXrjz006g
AMD spoke highly of the speed and accuracy. The amount of time saved in transit between emulation and prototyping through the new Dynamic Duo gave AMD enough time to design and develop features for their new line of EPYC processors that they would not have had the ability to do before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O33v40sLUFU
-Dynamic Duo – Product video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otbv4ewT1OA
– This video from Nvidia highlights their successes with the Dynamic Duo. The representative speaks highly of the integration between the units, and how Dynamic Duo’s singular, unified package streamlines the emulation/prototyping cycle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlRXrjz006g
– This video from AMD highlights a similar success story, where the representative talks about how the time they saved using the Dynamic Duo allowed them to develop extra features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O33v40sLUFU