Cadence Design Systems - Product Families

Product Families

Cadence's product offerings are targeted at various types of design and verification tasks which include:

  • Virtuoso Platform - Tools for designing full-custom integrated circuits; includes schematic entry, behavioral modeling (Verilog-AMS), circuit simulation, full custom layout, physical verification, extraction and back-annotation. Used mainly for analog, mixed-signal, RF, and standard-cell designs, but also memory and FPGA designs.
  • Encounter Platform - Tools for creation of digital integrated circuits. This includes floorplanning, synthesis, test, and place and route. Typically a digital design starts from Verilog netlists.
  • Incisive Platform - Tools for simulation and functional verification of RTL including Verilog, VHDL and SystemC based models. Includes formal verification, formal equivalence checking, hardware acceleration, and emulation.
  • Verification IP (VIP) Cadence provides the broadest set of commercial VIP available with over 30 protocols in its VIP Portfolio. They include AMBA, PCI Express, USB, SATA, OCP, SAS, MIPI and many others. Cadence VIP also provides the unique Compliance Management System (CMS) to automate protocol compliance verification.
  • Integration Optimized IP (Design IP) Cadence offers Vertically Integrated IP, inclusive of Digital Controller, Serdes Layer, and Device Driver. Protocols supported include USB, DDR, PCI-Express, 10G-40G Ethernet, and On Chip Bus Fabric.
  • Allegro Platform - Tools for co-design of integrated circuits, packages, and PCBs.
  • OrCAD/PSpice - Tools for smaller design teams and individual PCB designers.

In addition to EDA software, Cadence provides contracted methodology and design services as well as silicon design IP, and has a program to make it easier for other EDA software to interoperate with the company's tools.

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