Overview

Cadence® HDS combines industry-leading and production-proven technologies, methodologies, and services in a customizable, scalable, secure, and complete design environment. This solution is a cloud-based, turnkey design environment that allows you to outsource entire projects or design phases to a production-grade design environment. Using Cadence HDS in the cloud, you can manage your peak resource needs and eliminate the constraints of going it alone.

With over 20 years of hosting experience, Cadence HDS in the cloud delivers proven design capabilities and services across several hosting hubs worldwide. Since 2008, customers from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies have successfully employed HDS in the areas of custom IC design, logic design, physical implementation, advanced low-power design, and block-level and chip-level functional verification. Cadence HDS serves customers across semiconductor industries, from medical to consumer and IoT, mobile and communications, to aero and defense.

Figure 1: Cadence HDS customers span several semiconductor vertical markets.

Deploying an advanced collaboration infrastructure (“VCAD”) to help leverage the breadth of Cadence expertise, this secure, VCAD remote-access capability has been combined with the cloud infrastructure that is optimal for the semiconductor design industry. By combining our fine-tuned infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) with our patented VCAD HDS environment, we have created a software-as-a-service (SaaS) electronic design automation (EDA) environment, customizable to address your design challenges.

Providing CAD and IT, environment, and project management support, Cadence HDS is a complete design solution. Cadence delivers a family of packaged and pre-configured HDS services, as well as customizable solutions. We also offer solutions that can run in either private or public cloud environments. Leveraging our broad portfolio of products and compute options, Cadence HDS can be personalized for your specific project, team, and business objectives.

Industry Landscapes

Addressing the challenges of variable compute requirements, time to market, collaboration, security, and cost management is changing the engineering development environment. Cadence HDS in the cloud helps you address these specific challenges by offering an alternative to on-premise, traditional datacenter design environments.

Cadence Hosted Design SolutionsAs semiconductor designs become increasingly intricate, managing the compute needs of your design team becomes a challenge. The constraints you face using traditional datacenters often hinder a company’s productivity, project deadlines, and ultimately a product’s time to market. To defy these constraints, Cadence now offers Hosted Design Solutions (HDS) in the cloud.

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Peak Resource Needs

While different organizations inherently face different design challenges, one constant remains the same: organizations that experience peaks and valleys of supply and demand need an infrastructure that grows and bends with them. Investing in a solution that doesn’t scale with the varying design requirements invariably results in either an inferior product at the peaks, or an overly expensive solution in the valleys.

The Cadence HDS turnkey design environment addresses the challenge of variable compute requirements, which means no resource contention or compromising among your projects and teams. For start-ups to multi-billion-dollar industry leaders, Cadence HDS means system design enablement and engineering productivity.

Cadence HDS in the cloud resolves the peaks/valleys issue by allowing you to run entire projects or design phases in a production-ready design environment that is backed by more than 20 years of semiconductor design support experience. Employing Cadence HDS means that peak compute requirements no longer result in resource contention or delayed project deliverables.

Product Time to Market

When implementing a new product or service, managing time to market is critical. If a delay is caused by mismanagement of compute resources, market opportunities can be missed and infrastructure investment can become worthless.

Cadence HDS in the cloud provides a shorter time to engineering productivity, and thus to market. This solution can result in up to 30X quicker access to compute resources and 20X faster regressions over on-site solutions (depending on initial benchmarking).

Figure 2: Use Cadence HDS in the cloud to collaborate, both in your team

and with Cadence support, across multiple regions.

Global Team Collaboration

More functions in each new IC and increasingly complex circuits on each board require greater collaboration between design teams. In addition, the trend of outsourcing increasingly diverse and dispersed teams requires leveraging efficient collaboration techniques.

With its several hubs worldwide, Cadence HDS in the cloud connects even the most diverse of design groups, making collaboration within the team and with Cadence global support easy.

Hosted and Cloud Security

Many companies are hesitant to outsource their environment because they are concerned about the security of their design effort and IP. Solutions that exist in the cloud are, by definition, out of the owner’s hands; however, security innovations in the hosting and cloud market have made outsourced design environments a reality.

Cadence HDS leverages world-class hosting services that have passed rigorous security certifications used around the world, including:

• FIPS 140-2 Level 2

• ISO 27001, 27017, and 27018

• Department of Defense Security Requirements

• MLPS Level 3

• MTCS

Additionally, HDS follows the Cloud Security Alliance’s recommended controls and routinely conducts independent penetration testing to proactively comply with changes in the security landscape.

Total Cost of Ownership

No matter the size, industry, or customer base—everyone wants to control costs.

Today, for everything spent on commercial design technology, a greater amount is required to integrate and apply that technology to customer designs and design environments. Customers must spend time and capital to acquire, integrate, and deploy these technologies to their engineering teams. Beyond the required up-front investment in IT infrastructure, companies must also include use models, best practices, and integration methods for using increasingly complex software.

Cadence HDS in the cloud reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) for EDA products and design equipment by managing these new design technologies. By leveraging Cadence expertise in tool solutions, design platforms, and cloud computing, your engineers can focus on their designs, not the infrastructure.

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Cadence HDS Is the EDA Cloud Solution

Cadence HDS in the cloud leverages top IaaS environments that have been customized to fit the design and resource require-ments of the semiconductor industry. Cadence is also the first major EDA player to register with the Amazon Partner Network (APN), having earned recognition as a standard-tier APN technology partner.

Engineers are the greatest asset of any company; in addition, CAD and IT support teams must manage compute resources to keep them productive. Engineering productivity directly relates to meeting project milestones, leading to timely and market-driven product releases. By leveraging public cloud, Cadence HDS in the cloud can offer a complete, managed design environment that can support teams worldwide, ensuring that engineers can be more productive, doing what they do best—instead of spending their time waiting for resources.

Jump-start your designs with a scalable, secure design environment with Cadence Hosted Design Solutions.

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Cadence Contact: Larry Drenan Group Director, Cloud Services Cadence 2655 Seely Boulevard San Jose, CA USA 408-894-2945 ldrenan@cadence.com