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Collaborating with Cadence Engineering Services While more and more features crowd each IC, your challenge remains the same—ensuring that when a new system or consumer electronics product goes to market it's your chip sitting in the socket. However, with complexity increasing and design windows and process nodes constantly shrinking, the path to on-time silicon success has never been less certain. Even the largest and most competent design organizations sometimes require access to additional flows, design expertise, IP, and partnerships. Working with Cadence Engineering Services can help you mitigate the risks of delays, respins, and chips that fail to yield. Our unique service model, called VCAD, gives you an open pipeline to the right resources at every stage of the design process. VCAD is a highly flexible model that enables you to access a broad range of Cadence resources and expertise. It also allows you to leverage our relationships with leading silicon design chain partners. In this way, we become an integral part of your team, sharing design and application expertise whenever and wherever needed to help optimize your design environment for your specific design, budget, and schedule. Collaborative infrastructure
Cadence Engineering Services forms a collaboration infrastructure that furnishes greater efficiency and faster turnaround by combining all aspects of your service needs:
 | Solution architecture phase: We send design experts to your site to work with you to identify key problems and improvement opportunities related to design productivity, quality of results, and time-to-market, and to propose potential solutions—while you focus on design architecture and logic design challenges. | | Implementation phase: We work out issues at our Cadence engineering centers, where we have access to a large pool of resources, including our silicon engineering and product R&D experts. We can also provide existing IP to speed the development of a particular area of your design. In addition, we leverage generic components developed and proven in hundreds of successful projects—such as the Cadence design environment configuration manager and extended P-cell methodology—to ensure the most efficient and effective application of service resources. | | Follow-on support: We provide reliable access to ongoing support, including transfer of knowledge regarding designs and methodologies. |
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