Cadence Design Systems

Cadence has developed a stimulus optimizer based on neural networks to try to improve the runtime of constrained-random verification runs.

Talks in the Design-on-Cloud Pavilion at this year’s DAC demonstrated how the question over its usage is not so much whether design could or should migrate to the cloud but how to optimize cost and performance when it’s there.

Cadence Design Systems has agreed to buy the AWR RF-design company from its current owner National Instruments for approximately $160m.

Cadence has followed its launched of a parallelizable EM simulator with one that focuses on the thermal behavior of ICs through to multi-PCB assemblies.

Moving design and verification activities into the cloud poses challenges. Next month's inaugural ES Design West will offer practical guidance.

AI, its system design implications and its impact on EDA tools themselves will be a key theme for ES Design West next month.

SEMI and the Design Automation Conference (DAC) have agreed to schedule the the US event for EDA alongside Semicon West in 2020 and 2021.

Analyst Rich Valera points to China as a major source of EDA tool growth despite short-term tensions with the US government.

Cadence has developed a version of its Protium prototyping engine that supports larger designs and which is intended to go into data-center racks.

Cadence and OneSpin are applying various forms of machine learning to their tools to automate formal verification.