Cadence Accelerates AI-Driven Engineering Design and Science with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
Cadence (CDNS) announced an expanded multi-year collaboration with NVIDIA, focusing on accelerated computing and agentic AI integration. The partnership highlights significant performance improvements using NVIDIA's latest Blackwell architecture, including:
- Computational fluid dynamics simulation time reduced by up to 80X
- Cadence Spectre X Simulator accelerated by up to 10X
- 3D-IC design and analysis acceleration up to 7X
The collaboration features the integration of Cadence JedAI Platform with NVIDIA's NeMo framework and the new Llama Nemotron Reasoning Model. Additionally, Cadence is among the first adopters of NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins, enabling efficient data center design and operation through the integration of Omniverse Viewport, Allegro X Design Platform, and Reality Digital Twin Platform.
Cadence (CDNS) ha annunciato una collaborazione ampliata pluriennale con NVIDIA, focalizzandosi sull'accelerazione del calcolo e sull'integrazione dell'IA agentica. La partnership evidenzia significativi miglioramenti delle prestazioni utilizzando l'ultima architettura Blackwell di NVIDIA, tra cui:
- Tempo di simulazione della dinamica dei fluidi computazionale ridotto fino a 80 volte
- Simulatori Cadence Spectre X accelerati fino a 10 volte
- Accelerazione nella progettazione e analisi di 3D-IC fino a 7 volte
La collaborazione include l'integrazione della Cadence JedAI Platform con il framework NeMo di NVIDIA e il nuovo Modello di Ragionamento Llama Nemotron. Inoltre, Cadence è tra i primi ad adottare NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint per i gemelli digitali delle fabbriche AI, consentendo una progettazione e un'operazione efficienti dei data center attraverso l'integrazione di Omniverse Viewport, Allegro X Design Platform e Reality Digital Twin Platform.
Cadence (CDNS) anunció una colaboración ampliada de varios años con NVIDIA, enfocándose en la computación acelerada y la integración de IA agentiva. La asociación destaca mejoras significativas en el rendimiento utilizando la última arquitectura Blackwell de NVIDIA, que incluye:
- Tiempo de simulación de dinámica de fluidos computacionales reducido hasta 80 veces
- Simulador Cadence Spectre X acelerado hasta 10 veces
- Aceleración en el diseño y análisis de 3D-IC hasta 7 veces
La colaboración presenta la integración de la Cadence JedAI Platform con el marco NeMo de NVIDIA y el nuevo Modelo de Razonamiento Llama Nemotron. Además, Cadence está entre los primeros en adoptar NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint para gemelos digitales de fábricas de IA, lo que permite un diseño y operación eficientes de centros de datos a través de la integración de Omniverse Viewport, Allegro X Design Platform y Reality Digital Twin Platform.
Cadence (CDNS)는 NVIDIA와의 다년간 협력을 확대한다고 발표하며, 가속 컴퓨팅 및 에이전틱 AI 통합에 중점을 두고 있습니다. 이번 파트너십은 NVIDIA의 최신 Blackwell 아키텍처를 사용하여 성능이 크게 향상된 점을 강조합니다. 주요 내용은 다음과 같습니다:
- 전산 유체 역학 시뮬레이션 시간 80배까지 단축
- Cadence Spectre X 시뮬레이터 10배 가속화
- 3D-IC 설계 및 분석 7배 가속화
이번 협력은 Cadence JedAI Platform과 NVIDIA의 NeMo 프레임워크 및 새로운 Llama Nemotron 추론 모델의 통합을 특징으로 합니다. 또한, Cadence는 AI 공장 디지털 트윈을 위한 NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint의 초기 채택자 중 하나로, Omniverse Viewport, Allegro X Design Platform 및 Reality Digital Twin Platform의 통합을 통해 데이터 센터 설계 및 운영의 효율성을 높이고 있습니다.
Cadence (CDNS) a annoncé une collaboration élargie sur plusieurs années avec NVIDIA, axée sur l'informatique accélérée et l'intégration de l'IA agentique. Ce partenariat met en évidence des améliorations significatives des performances grâce à la dernière architecture Blackwell de NVIDIA, notamment :
- Temps de simulation de dynamique des fluides numérique réduit jusqu'à 80 fois
- Accélération du simulateur Cadence Spectre X jusqu'à 10 fois
- Accélération de la conception et de l'analyse de 3D-IC jusqu'à 7 fois
La collaboration comprend l'intégration de la Cadence JedAI Platform avec le cadre NeMo de NVIDIA et le nouveau Modèle de Raisonnement Llama Nemotron. De plus, Cadence est parmi les premiers à adopter NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint pour les jumeaux numériques d'usines AI, permettant une conception et un fonctionnement efficaces des centres de données grâce à l'intégration d'Omniverse Viewport, de la Cadence Allegro X Design Platform et de la Reality Digital Twin Platform.
Cadence (CDNS) hat eine erweiterte mehrjährige Zusammenarbeit mit NVIDIA angekündigt, die sich auf beschleunigtes Rechnen und agentische KI-Integration konzentriert. Die Partnerschaft hebt signifikante Leistungsverbesserungen hervor, die mit der neuesten Blackwell-Architektur von NVIDIA erzielt wurden, darunter:
- Die Simulationszeit der numerischen Strömungsmechanik um bis zu 80-fach reduziert
- Cadence Spectre X Simulator um bis zu 10-fach beschleunigt
- Beschleunigung des Designs und der Analyse von 3D-ICs um bis zu 7-fach
Die Zusammenarbeit umfasst die Integration der Cadence JedAI Platform mit dem NeMo-Framework von NVIDIA und dem neuen Llama Nemotron Reasoning Model. Darüber hinaus gehört Cadence zu den ersten Anwendern von NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint für digitale Zwillinge von KI-Fabriken, was eine effiziente Gestaltung und Betrieb von Rechenzentren durch die Integration von Omniverse Viewport, Allegro X Design Platform und Reality Digital Twin Platform ermöglicht.
- Significant performance improvements: up to 80X faster fluid dynamics simulation
- Enhanced product capabilities through NVIDIA Blackwell integration
- Strategic partnership with industry leader NVIDIA strengthens market position
- Expansion into digital twin technology opens new market opportunities
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Insights
Cadence's expanded NVIDIA partnership represents a strategic technology advancement with significant business implications. The integration of NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture delivers
This collaboration creates substantial competitive advantages in the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) market by enabling customers to solve previously intractable engineering challenges. The acceleration of simulation workflows from days to minutes represents a step-function improvement in productivity that should strengthen Cadence's value proposition to customers facing increasingly complex design challenges, particularly in aerospace, semiconductor, and AI infrastructure sectors.
The agentic AI integration using NVIDIA's NeMo framework and new Llama Nemotron Reasoning Model positions Cadence to capture emerging productivity opportunities in design automation. Meanwhile, the Molecular Sciences collaboration integrates NVIDIA BioNeMo with Cadence's Orion platform, diversifying their market potential in life sciences.
This partnership strategically aligns Cadence with the industry-wide shift toward AI-accelerated engineering, potentially expanding their total addressable market while creating defensible technological differentiation against competitors like Synopsys and Ansys.
The technical implications of Cadence's NVIDIA partnership are profound. By leveraging NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture, Cadence has achieved breakthrough computational capabilities that transform what's possible in engineering simulation. The multi-billion cell aircraft simulations completed in under 24 hours - previously requiring hundreds of thousands of CPU cores over several days - represents a landmark achievement in computational fluid dynamics.
The partnership addresses three critical technical challenges: computational intensity, workflow integration, and intelligence augmentation. Blackwell's accelerated computing drastically reduces simulation time, while the integration of generative AI through NVIDIA's NeMo framework and Llama Nemotron Reasoning Model creates intelligent assistants that can boost designer productivity.
Most significant is the development of design agents for digital and custom circuits that can autonomously generate and optimize designs. This technology could fundamentally transform the semiconductor design process by automating complex tasks that currently require deep expertise, potentially addressing the industry-wide shortage of experienced chip designers.
The Omniverse blueprint implementation for AI factory digital twins also positions Cadence at the forefront of a critical infrastructure trend. As data centers evolve to support AI workloads, accurate digital twins will become essential for optimizing power, cooling, and component placement - areas where Cadence's electronic design expertise provides unique advantages in simulation accuracy and integration.
Combined design expertise and accelerated computing drive innovation, enhance energy efficiency, boost engineering productivity and transform lives worldwide
Highlights:
- NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell systems accelerate Cadence solvers by up to 80X
- Collaborating to develop a full-stack agentic AI solution for engineering and science, using the new NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Reasoning Model
- One of the first adopters of NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins for effective and efficient data center design and operation
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the expansion of its multi-year collaboration with NVIDIA, focusing on driving advancements in accelerated computing and agentic AI. This partnership addresses critical global technology challenges, delivering tangible advancements that accelerate innovation across a wide range of industry verticals.
Cadence's deep, multi-year collaboration with NVIDIA spans EDA, system design and analysis, digital biology and AI.
Cadence is driving scientific innovation across multiple industries through the integration of NVIDIA-accelerated computing. The massive acceleration of a broad range of Cadence® engineering and scientific solutions using NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell architecture allows designers to tackle larger, more complex problems not previously possible. Some examples of this collaboration include:
- Computational fluid dynamics simulation time reduced by up to 80X—from days to minutes
- Cadence Spectre X Simulator accelerated by up to 10X
- 3D-IC design and analysis for thermal, stress and warpage accelerated by up to 7X
Cadence Fidelity CFD Platform Tackling Most Complex Fluid Dynamics Problem with Blackwell
Cadence leveraged the NVIDIA Blackwell platform to help solve one of the grand challenges of computational fluid dynamics (CFD)—a simulation of the complete aircraft within the most challenging parts of the flight envelope—takeoff and landing. Using the Cadence Fidelity CFD Platform, Cadence successfully ran multi-billion cell simulations on NVIDIA GB200 GPUs in under 24 hours that would previously have required an entire top 500 CPU cluster with 100,000s of cores and several days to complete. Cadence will continue to leverage Blackwell to test the limits of the simulation, helping the aerospace industry reduce the amount of wind tunnel tests while reducing cost and expediting time to market.
Cadence and NVIDIA are also working together on a full-stack agentic AI solution for electronic and system design, as well as science applications. This collaboration will introduce breakthrough agentic technology, integrating the Cadence JedAI Platform with NVIDIA’s NeMo generative AI framework and the newly announced NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Reasoning Model to accelerate designer productivity for tasks such as:
- Intelligent conversational AI assistants for boosting user productivity and innovation
- Deep reasoning for verification based on the underlying design collateral and verification agents
- Design generation and optimization with design agents for digital and custom circuits
Additionally, Cadence Molecular Sciences (OpenEye) is integrating NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM microservices with Orion®, Cadence’s cloud-native molecular design platform. This scientific software collaboration will accelerate tools for drug discovery by harnessing the combination of cutting-edge AI and GPUs in the cloud. With unprecedented access to on-demand and reserved GPU access, Orion will equip scientists worldwide with the power to perform complex calculations at scale, revolutionizing therapeutic design. NIMs microservices expands Orion’s capabilities in the areas of:
- AI models for 3D de novo protein structure prediction
- Small molecule generative AI
- Foundational AI models for antibody property prediction
Cadence is accelerating the buildout of the AI infrastructure with cutting-edge digital twin technology, powered by NVIDIA. Cadence is proud to be one of the first adopters of the NVIDIA Omniverse blueprint for AI factory digital twins. This partnership is driving the creation of consistent and accurate models to enable the rapid development of data center digital twins. With the integration of NVIDIA Omniverse Viewport, Cadence Allegro® X Design Platform, and the Cadence Reality™ Digital Twin Platform, designers have new, more accurate visualization for the entire electronic system design process. Downstream users can leverage data for analytics, components and BOM management, manufacturing interfaces, system-level quality, and other disciplines such as mechanical and industrial design. NVIDIA and Cadence are leading the way in creating an ecosystem of high-quality models, opening the door for equipment manufacturers and data center companies to quickly and confidently create digital twins.
“Cadence is accelerating AI-driven EDA and system design and analysis workloads on NVIDIA’s latest Grace Blackwell NVL72 platform. We’re enabling the delivery of today’s infrastructure AI and agentic AI and transforming the principled simulations that underpin physical AI and sciences AI,” said Dr. Anirudh Devgan, president and CEO of Cadence. “With these breakthroughs, we’re now able to perform massive simulations of complex systems that weren’t possible before in hours, including some of the largest and most accurate simulations of full aircraft to date.”
“Accelerated computing and agentic AI are setting new standards for innovation across industries,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA. “Together, NVIDIA and Cadence are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible—delivering breakthroughs in simulation, optimization, and design that drive efficiency, reduce time to market, and fuel scientific discovery.”
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