Cadence wins AI - Semiconductor award with Verisium Platform at SBR Technology Excellence Awards 2024

It revolutionises SoC design and verification with AI and big data.

Cadence Design Systems has been celebrated for its innovative contributions to the semiconductor industry, securing the coveted AI - Semiconductor category award at the SBR Technology Excellence Awards 2024. The company's groundbreaking Verisium AI-Driven Verification Platform represents a significant leap forward in electronic design automation (EDA), leveraging big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to transform the system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification process. As SoC complexity escalates, verification emerges as a pivotal, resource-intensive phase in chip development, highlighting the critical role of the Verisium platform in streamlining and enhancing this process.

The Verisium platform marks a departure from traditional single-run, single-engine approaches, introducing a paradigm where multiple runs of various engines are optimised across an entire design and verification campaign. This AI-powered platform accelerates the identification of design issues, allowing chipmakers to address potential problems more efficiently than ever before.

The benefits of deploying the Verisium platform are many, including increased verification productivity, enhanced verification coverage, and accelerated root cause analysis. These advantages enable designers to dedicate more time to creative and strategic endeavours, ensure higher-quality designs by uncovering otherwise overlooked bugs, and swiftly pinpoint and rectify design flaws.

Verisium is built atop the Cadence Joint Enterprise Data and AI (JedAI) Platform, which analyses vast amounts of chip design process data to identify improvement opportunities and retain valuable insights for future projects. The JedAI platform unifies Cadence's computational software innovations across data and AI, extending from Verisium verification to the Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer's implementation and the Optimality Intelligent System Explorer's system analysis.

The suite of Verisium apps, including Versium AutoTriage, Verisium CodeMiner, Verisium WaveMiner, Verisium PinDown, Verisium Debug, and Verisium Manager, integrate seamlessly with the Cadence JedAI Platform. This integration enables AI-driven root cause analysis of bugs, offering users a comprehensive debugging solution that spans from IP to SoC and from single-run to multi-run scenarios. The platform facilitates both interactive and post-process debug flows, incorporating waveform, schematic, driver tracing, and SmartLog technologies.

Cadence's achievement at the SBR Technology Excellence Awards 2024 underscores its pivotal role in advancing the semiconductor industry through AI-driven innovation. The Verisium platform not only optimises the verification process but also embodies Cadence's commitment to pushing the boundaries of technological advancement, setting new standards for efficiency, and enhancing the quality of chip design across the globe.

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