Cadence Collaboration With Arm Enables Customers to Successfully Tape out Next-Generation Arm Mobile Designs
May 25 2021 - 10:05AM
Business Wire
Highlights:
- Early adopters of Arm’s new mobile solution on the Armv9
architecture have successfully taped out SoCs for mobile devices
using the Cadence digital and verification full flows
- Cadence optimizes its RTL-to-GDS digital flow and delivers
corresponding 5nm and 7nm RAKs for Arm Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710 and
Cortex-A510 CPUs and Mali-G710 GPU
- Cadence enhances its System VIP and broader verification flow
so customers can verify Arm premium mobile SoCs faster
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that
through a collaboration with Arm, customers have successfully taped
out mobile SoCs using Cadence® tools and the next-generation Arm®
mobile solution, which includes the Arm Cortex®-X2, Cortex-A710,
and Cortex-A510 CPUs, Mali™-G710 GPU and the DynamIQ Shared
Unit-110. As part of the collaboration, Cadence has fine-tuned its
digital and verification full flows on 5nm and 7nm process
technologies to drive adoption of the new Arm mobile solution on
the Armv9 architecture. In addition, Cadence delivered 5nm and 7nm
RTL-to-GDS digital flow Rapid Adoption Kits (RAKs) to enable
customers to achieve optimal power, performance and area (PPA) and
accelerate time to tapeout.
To learn more about the Arm-based solutions from Cadence, visit
www.cadence.com/go/armsols.
Cadence Digital Full Flow Support for Arm Premium Mobile
Platform
Cadence delivered a highly tuned digital flow and corresponding
5nm and 7nm RAKs for the development of SoCs based on the latest
Arm mobile solution. The complete, integrated RTL-to-GDS RAKs
include the Cadence Modus DFT Software Solution, Genus™ Synthesis
Solution, Innovus™ Implementation System, Quantus™ Extraction
Solution, Tempus™ Timing Signoff Solution and ECO Option, Voltus™
IC Power Integrity Solution, Conformal® Equivalence Checking and
Conformal Low Power.
The digital full flow offers Arm mobile solution adopters
several capabilities to improve productivity. For example, the
Cadence iSpatial technology provides an integrated, predictable
implementation flow so users can achieve faster design closure. The
flow also incorporates an innovative hierarchical technology to
deliver optimal turnaround time on large high-performance CPUs. The
Innovus Implementation System’s GigaOpt™ power optimization
capability significantly reduces dynamic power consumption.
Finally, the Tempus ECO Option provides signoff-accurate final
design closure using path-based optimization, which enables users
to achieve PPA targets.
Cadence Verification Full Flow Support for Arm Premium Mobile
Platform
Cadence also optimized its System-Level Verification IP (System
VIP) and verification full flow to support the latest Arm AMBA®
protocols, enabling rapid and dependable adoption of Armv9 IP while
accelerating integration and functional signoff of Arm mobile SoCs.
Cadence System VIP extensions for Armv9 include new checkers,
verification plans and traffic generators to efficiently verify Arm
mobile SoC coherency, performance and Arm SystemReady
compliance.
The verification full flow, which provides optimal verification
throughput for the latest Armv9 IP, includes the Cadence Xcelium™
Logic Simulation Platform, Palladium® Z1 and Z2 Enterprise
Emulation Platforms, Protium™ X1 and X2 Enterprise Prototyping
Platforms, JasperGold® Formal Verification Platform, vManager™
Planning and Metrics, and Perspec™ System Verifier and Virtual
System Platform.
“Based on the new Armv9 architecture, the Arm Total Compute
solution is designed to enable best-in-class products, allowing our
customers to achieve greater performance and efficiency when
creating next-generation mobile SoCs,” said Paul Williamson, senior
vice president and general manager, Client Line of Business, Arm.
“By continuing our work with Cadence, we’re making it easier to
unlock the flexibility and performance of our latest CPU and GPU
technology to achieve design success and get to market faster.”
“Cadence has collaborated with Arm on many generations of CPUs
and GPUs for mobile IP development, and our latest work expands our
support for the recently introduced Armv9 architecture,” said Dr.
Chin-Chi Teng, senior vice president and general manager, Digital
& Signoff Group at Cadence. “Arm uses our Cadence digital and
verification full flow innovations to develop its mobile IP, and
with the rollout of Arm’s new CPUs and CPUs, we’re enabling
customers to achieve PPA targets to accelerate time to tapeout and
providing SystemReady verification and early software
bring-up.”
The Cadence digital full flow enables customers to achieve PPA
goals, and the verification full flow provides improved
verification throughput. The flows support the broader Cadence
Intelligent System Design™ strategy, enabling customers to achieve
design excellence.
About Cadence
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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 seven
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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