Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems is a US software company for electronic design automation, often called EDA. It sells tools, hardware and design IP that engineers use to design chips, circuit boards and whole electronic systems. Its work spans silicon, systems, data centers and science.

Cadence offers agentic AI tools for chip design and verification, digital implementation, circuit board and packaging design, and custom analog design. Its AI-enabled products include the Millennium platform, a digital twin supercomputer, plus Cerebrus AI Studio, Verisium for verification, Allegro AI Studio for packaging and boards, and the Tensilica AI platform for on-device AI. The company also describes silicon for physical AI, including autonomous transport, drones and robotics.

For chip design, Cadence lists Virtuoso for analog and custom work, Spectre simulation, Innovus for implementation, and Xcelium for logic simulation. It sells Palladium and Protium for emulation and prototyping. It also offers silicon IP, chiplets and services.

For systems, its tools include the Allegro X platform for system and PCB design, an advanced package designer, and Sigrity for signal and power integrity. The AWR Design Environment covers RF and microwave work. The company also sells computational fluid dynamics software, thermal and electromagnetic analysis, and multiphysics simulation. Through MSC Software and BETA CAE, it offers physics-based simulation to reduce product development cost and time. A digital twin platform supports data center design.

Cadence serves several industries. These include aerospace and defense, automotive, 5G, data centers, hyperscale computing and life sciences. Its services cover chiplet design, custom silicon and engineering support for simulation. Cloud services let customers run its tools online.

Services

• Electronic design automation software
• Agentic AI design tools
• IC design and verification
• PCB and package design
• RF and microwave design
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Thermal and electromagnetic analysis
• Chiplet design services
• Custom silicon services
• Cloud services