Cadence Unveils Palladium Z3 and Protium X3 Systems to Usher in a New Era of Accelerated Verification, Software Development and Digital Twins
April 17 2024 - 4:15PM
Business Wire
Highlights:
- Cadence’s new dynamic duo offers more than 2X increased
capacity and is 1.5X faster than the previous generation, enabling
the rapid development of advanced chips for generative AI, mobile,
automotive, hyperscale and LLM applications
- Palladium Z3 emulator features a new custom Cadence emulation
processor that delivers the fastest, most predictable compile and
comprehensive pre-silicon hardware debug
- Protium X3 prototyping offers the fastest bring-up times for
pre-silicon software validation of billion-gate designs
- Seamlessly integrated flow with unified compiler and common
virtual and physical interfaces offers rapid design migration and
testing from emulation to prototyping
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the
new Cadence® Palladium® Z3 Emulation and Protium™ X3 FPGA
Prototyping systems, a revolutionary digital twin platform that
builds on the success of the industry-leading Palladium Z2 and
Protium X2 systems to tackle escalating system and semiconductor
design complexity, and to accelerate the development timeline for
the most advanced SoCs. Palladium and Protium systems have long
been trusted by market-shaping AI, automotive, hyperscale,
networking and mobile chip companies to deliver the highest
throughput pre-silicon hardware debug and pre-silicon software
validation. Targeted at the industry’s largest multi-billion-gate
designs, the new Palladium Z3 and Protium X3 systems set a new
standard of excellence, providing customers with more than a 2X
increase in capacity and a 1.5X performance increase compared to
previous-generation systems, enabling faster design bring-up and
shortening overall time to market.
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“As generational drivers accelerate the need for system and
semiconductor innovation, our customers are facing increasing
challenges to power the most advanced applications,” said Paul
Cunningham, senior vice president and general manager of the System
Verification Group at Cadence. “The third generation Palladium and
Protium dynamic duo systems are core components of the Cadence
Verification Suite and seamlessly interface with the Verisium
AI-driven Verification Platform. The Cadence verification full flow
offers our customers the highest verification throughput needed to
deliver their hardware innovations to market faster and to support
the rapid development of new technologies, such as generative
AI.”
The Palladium Z3 and Protium X3 systems offer increased
capacity, and scale from job sizes of 16 million gates up to 48
billion gates, so the largest SoCs can be tested as a whole rather
than just partial models, ensuring proper functionality and
performance. The systems are powered by the NVIDIA BlueField DPU
and NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking platforms and maintain
congruency when transitioning between the two systems and
transitioning from virtual to physical interfaces and vice versa.
The Palladium Z3 system accelerates hardware verification, and
through functional and interface congruency, models can be quickly
brought up onto the Protium X3 system for accelerated software
validation.
“The supercharged Palladium Z3 and Protium X3 are built to
deliver fast pre-silicon verification and validation of the largest
and most complex devices,” said Dhiraj Goswami, corporate vice
president, Hardware System Verification R&D at Cadence. “Our
innovative custom silicon and system architecture, combined with
revolutionary modular compile and debug capabilities enabling
multiple turns per day, continues to push the envelope to meet our
customers’ needs, allowing them to solve the world’s toughest
challenges and enable their next generation of innovations to
become a reality.”
“Building efficient, high-performance AI platforms requires
sophisticated infrastructure and integration across a full stack of
optimized systems and software,” said Scot Schultz, senior
director, Networking at NVIDIA. “Accelerated by NVIDIA networking,
the next-generation Cadence Palladium and Protium systems push the
boundaries of capacity and performance to help enable a new era of
generative AI computing.”
With the Palladium Z3 system’s new domain-specific apps, users
have access to the most complete offering for managing increasing
system and semiconductor design complexity, improving system-level
accuracy, and accelerating low-power verification. The
domain-specific apps include the industry’s first 4-State Emulation
App, the Real Number Modeling App, and the Dynamic Power Analysis
App.
“As SoCs become more complex, scalable validation and
verification tools that enable massive software testing before
tapeout are more critical than ever,” said Tran Nguyen, senior
director of design services, Arm. “The latest hardware verification
platforms and tools from Cadence are sparking innovation in Arm IP
design for AI, automotive, and data center applications, and we
look forward to how this will benefit our mutual customers.”
“Delivering on leadership computing products requires AMD to
bring together a multitude of pre-silicon solutions and techniques
to meet the scale of the verification challenge,” said Alex Starr,
Corporate Fellow, AMD. “Cadence Palladium Z3 and Protium X3 systems
add to our capabilities between emulation and enterprise
prototyping to improve design productivity and meet time-to-market
goals. Our collaboration with Cadence also incorporates the AMD
Versal™ Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC within the Protium X3 system as
well as AMD EPYC™ processor-based host servers qualified for both
the Palladium Z3 and Protium X3 systems to enable high capacity
with next-level performance and scalability.”
The Palladium Z3 and Protium X3 systems are part of the broader
Cadence Verification Suite and support the company’s Intelligent
System Design™ strategy, enabling SoC design excellence. The
systems have been deployed at select customers, with general
availability expected in Q3 2024. For more information on the new
Palladium Z3 and Protium X3 systems, please visit
www.cadence.com/go/dynamicduo3.
About Cadence
Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon
more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company
applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to
deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into
reality. Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative
companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips
to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications,
including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications,
automotive, mobile, aerospace, industrial and healthcare. For 10
years in a row, Fortune magazine has named Cadence one of the 100
Best Companies to Work For. Learn more at cadence.com.
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