One of the unsung heroes of the modern age of technology is Cadence, a 36-year-old company. One of the products that this company offers is an EDA – also known as electronic design automation software. It is essentially an electronics circuit simulator that is used to design integrated circuits (IC), and also PCBs for our motherboards.
Such software is important as we need to know what works and what doesn’t, as well as the circuitry’s layout must be optimum to ensure the stray and parasitic capacitance is as low as possible to ensure the circuit can perform the best as it can. It is used by NVIDIA to design the Blackwell AI chip, for example.
CadenceCONNECT is a seminar that brings together Cadence technology users, developers, and industry experts for networking, sharing the best practices on critical design, verification of the circuit’s issues, and discovering new techniques in designing advanced chips, SoCs, and systems.
The main highlight for this year’s seminar is the integration of AI – and that makes a lot of sense as circuit designs can be made faster and more intelligent. Circuits can be automatically generated and potentially be optimized manually later, or just have the AI to find any potential issues with an existing circuit. This truly helps a chip designer’s capability in designing high-performance chips. Cadence can then allow more powerful chips to be produced, which in turn, allows the semiconductor industry to work better and faster. It’s a loop of continuous improvement.
KT Moore, Cadence VP of Corporate Marketing & Business Development, said that AI is a big driving force for innovation while acknowledging the contributions of customers and partners to this collective pursuit.
Cadence is undergoing a transformation, revamping infrastructure and existing solutions while venturing into new markets. Dynamic Duo III, their latest advancement in verification technology, builds upon past successes. It does multi-die chip validation too. Cadence remains a leader in hardware-software co-verification.
Chip verification is paramount, ensuring a 99.99% confidence level in functionality. It’s every chip maker’s nightmare if there’s any sort of hardware unreliability after its release, so verification is important.
To solve the design challenges and present the latest solutions, there are also breakout sessions ranging from analog, digital, system verification, and MSA & PCB designs with big chip makers as Intel, Infineon, MediaTek, Realtek, Renesas, STMicro, and many more – sharing their experiences using Cadence’s latest technologies.
CadenceConnect is held across multiple regions across the globe yearly, so click here to know to know when is the next Cadence Connect event happening near you.
