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The new Cadence® Cloud portfolio is the
first broad cloud offering for the development of electronic
systems and semiconductors. It includes customer-managed and
Cadence-managed cloud environments providing productivity,
scalability, security and flexibility benefits that enable
engineers to achieve electronic product design goals. (Graphic:
Business Wire)
Highlights:
- The Cadence Cloud portfolio includes
customer-managed and Cadence-managed cloud environments providing
productivity, scalability, security and flexibility benefits that
enable engineers to achieve electronic product design goals
- Customers establishing and maintaining
their own cloud environments can now use the Cadence Cloud Passport
model, which provides easy access to cloud-ready Cadence tools and
a cloud-based license server for high reliability
- Cadence offers the Cloud-Hosted Design
Solution, a managed, EDA-optimized cloud environment built on
Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure that supports customers’
peak or entire design environments
- Cadence introduces the Palladium Cloud
solution, a fully-managed emulation solution that can be deployed
in combination with other Cadence Cloud offerings, freeing
customers from installation and operational responsibilities
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today launched the
Cadence® Cloud portfolio, the first broad cloud portfolio for the
development of electronic systems and semiconductors. The Cadence
Cloud portfolio consists of Cadence-managed and customer-managed
environments that enable electronic product developers to use the
scalability of the cloud to securely manage the exponential
increase in design complexity. With the new portfolio offerings,
customers 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.
The announcement was made at the 55th annual Design Automation
Conference (DAC) being held in San Francisco at Moscone Center
West, June 25-28, 2018. Cadence is located in booth 1308 in the
main exhibit hall and booth 1245 in the Design Infrastructure
Alley. For more information on the new Cadence Cloud portfolio,
please visit www.cadence.com/go/cadencecloud.
Cadence gained extensive cloud experience by hosting design
environments for more than 100 customers of varying sizes and
architecting many of its products to be massively parallel for
improved scalability in the cloud.
“The cloud will fundamentally influence silicon design by giving
semiconductor companies the ability to optimize their capital
versus operational expenses for computing infrastructure,” said Suk
Lee, senior director Design Infrastructure Marketing Division at
TSMC. “Cadence has passed our rigorous cloud security audits and is
authorized to engage with mutual customers on the Cadence Cloud
using TSMC process models and rule decks.”
“While many industries have previously adopted the cloud to
address compute-intensive workloads, systems and semiconductor
companies have faced unprecedented challenges that have made cloud
adoption difficult until now,” said Richard Wawrzyniak, principal
analyst for ASIC & SoC at Semico Research Corp. “Some of the
challenges included security concerns and the sheer amount of
design data and the inherent scalability limitations with
electronic design automation tools. The Cadence approach to the
cloud addresses historical industry issues, opening the door for
customers to adopt the cloud and enter the next generation of chip
design development.”
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 includes cloud-ready
Cadence software tools that have been tested for use in the cloud,
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.
The initial Cadence products that are cloud-ready and benefit
significantly from the scale of the cloud include tools for circuit
simulation, power and EM analysis, logic simulation, formal
verification, physical verification, timing signoff, extraction,
power integrity and library characterization (see related news at
www.cadence.com/go/liberatetrionews). Additional tools will be
available based on customer need.
Cadence-Managed Environments
The Cadence Cloud-Hosted Design Solution, also part of the
Cadence Cloud portfolio, provides software tools in a
fully-supported, managed and EDA-optimized design environment built
on AWS or Microsoft Azure that has been customized for
company-specific infrastructure requirements. Cadence offers unique
technologies, security and automation capabilities to enhance the
usability and value of these environments. For example, Cadence has
developed a portal that easily provides cloud setup, maintenance
and job management functionality in a rapidly deployable cloud
environment to cover peak requirements in areas such as logic
simulation and library characterization.
Start-ups and small companies can benefit from a customized
cloud environment because it reduces the need for capital
infrastructure investments and certain computer-aided design (CAD)
and IT expenses, empowering these companies to offload their entire
design environment and instead focus entirely on IC and system
design innovation.
Medium to large companies can also benefit from Cadence-managed
environments by moving an entire design project, a functional
domain or peak compute workloads from their own datacenters to the
cloud.
Additionally, Cadence introduced the Cadence Palladium® Cloud
solution, a directly delivered, cloud-based emulation solution that
easily addresses peak needs of existing Palladium customers and
brings emulation hardware access and benefits to new customers and
markets. With the Palladium Cloud solution, customers purchase gate
capacity, which is used when needed. Cadence maintains the
emulation hardware in a professionally managed datacenter, freeing
users from installation and operational responsibilities.
Collectively, Cadence-managed offerings support use at the tool,
flow or entire design environment level. Customers can select the
models and technologies that best address their unique
requirements.
Cloud Benefits for Systems and Semiconductor
Companies
The Cadence Cloud portfolio was developed to enable the
following benefits for systems and semiconductor companies:
- Improved productivity:
EDA-optimized 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
- Optimized security: Expands upon
the native security provided by cloud providers with additional
security layers, best practices 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 customized to offload a peak need, part of a flow or a full
project in any combination customers need.
“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,” said Dr. Anirudh Devgan, president of Cadence. “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.”
Endorsements
“Arm is seeing strong demand in the industry for cloud services
that alleviate peak resource needs. One way Arm is addressing this
demand is by working with Cadence to provide our mutual customers
with a cloud-based library characterization capability faster and
more efficiently, enabling them to realize improved cost and
time-to-market benefits.”
- Ron Moore, vice president of business planning, Physical
Design Group, Arm
“We started using Cadence HDS on-premise with great success a
few years ago because we needed full infrastructure and CAD and IT
staff support. Now as our company has grown, we have decided to
make the move to the Cadence Cloud-Hosted Design Solution deployed
on Microsoft Azure in order to improve scalability. As a dynamic
start-up, outsourcing to Cadence was critical so that we could
remain focused on growing our business through the development and
delivery of innovative solid-state storage controller solutions for
cloud, hyperscale and enterprise datacenters.”
- Ronnie Huang, CTO and co-founder, CNEX Labs, Inc.
“As the inventor of pioneering genomic analysis technologies for
healthcare applications, we design and develop innovative
integrated circuits to detect DNA as a simple electrical signal.
Our use of semiconductor-based genomic analysis sets us apart from
other molecular diagnostics companies by bringing next-generation
sequencing (NGS) or multiplexed PCR (DNA amplification)
technologies directly to the clinical environment to provide rapid,
near-patient actionable information. Through use of the Cadence
Cloud-Hosted Design Solution deployed on AWS, we have successfully
modernized our IT infrastructure for silicon design. The
cloud-based approach enhanced collaboration of our world-class
team, and Cadence’s support has allowed a seamless move to this new
service delivery model.”
- Simon Morling, vice president product development,
DNA Electronics Ltd.
About Cadence
Cadence enables electronic systems and semiconductor companies
to create the innovative end products that are transforming the way
people live, work and play. Cadence software, hardware and
semiconductor IP are used by customers to deliver products to
market faster. The company’s System Design Enablement strategy
helps customers develop differentiated products—from chips to
boards to systems—in mobile, consumer, cloud datacenter,
automotive, aerospace, IoT, industrial and other market segments.
Cadence is listed as one of Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies
to Work For. Learn more at cadence.com.
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