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Hosted Design Solutions

Tagent

Design Challenge
	Fully integrate an RFID tag on a piece of silicon
	Ensure that the antenna doesn’t interfere with the chip logic
	No onsite CAD support team /limited existing infrastructure
	Minimize time to productivity
Cadence Solution
	Provide a hosted front-end design environment for creating an AMS/RF ASIC
	Collaborate with Tagent to design and implement AMS blocks onto a full chip
	Mitigate risk and optimize time to productivity with a proven, unified CAD environment
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Tagent

Jarie Bolander
Tagent
Jarie Bolander, Tagent Co-Founder and Vice President of R&D talks about how Cadence Hosted Design Solutions and Services helped Tagent develop the first-ever Antenna on Chip.

For each of these varied customers, Cadence provided a complete hosted design environment.

Customer

VC-funded Silicon Valley fabless semiconductor startup building cost-effective wideband low-noise amplifiers and mixers for wireless market segment. Future funding was tied to successfully developing prototype silicon to demonstrate technology.

Challenges
	Limited funding
	12 month tape-out window for initial design
	Lacked existing infrastructure and engineering environment
	Design expertise dispersed across local and remote offices
	Immediate productivity a must
Cadence Solution
	A hosted, comprehensive custom IC engineering design environment
	Secure, scalable and reliable compute infrastructure with ultra-low latency access across different geographical regions
	Complete use-model, flows and Infrastructure
	Contract aligned with budget and milestones
Business Impact
	Optimal time-to-productivity – Engineers able to design immediately with a production-ready custom IC environment – Customer started engineering work from home prior to having an office
	Risk mitigation through proven engineering environment and use models – Provided a complete Custom IC environment from day one – Customer contracted with their foundry partner, and Cadence performed the setup and configuration

Customer

Fabless semiconductor company specializing in the design, development, and sale of RFID tags.

Challenges
	Aggressive design timeline
	Requisite engineering talent was not in place at start of design
	Limited existing infrastructure
	CAD management gaps
Cadence Solution
	A complete hosted custom IC engineering environment
	Infrastructure and use models
	Enabled an optimized analog/mixed-signal methodology that aligned with customers design needs
	Augmentation the circuit design team
Business Impact
	Optimal time-to-productivity – Engineers gained immediate access to a production-ready custom IC environment – Provided critical missing engineering skills
	Risk mitigation through proven engineering environment and use models – Provided a complete custom IC environment from day one
	Customer contracted with their foundry partner, and Cadence performed the setup and configuration
Design Augmentation
	Provided design engineering talent that was critical to meeting required business objectives

Customer

Industry leader in design, development, manufacture, and sale of precision test products for high performance advanced semiconductor products. This established company had aggressive plans to expand into adjacent business of offering complementary semiconductor products and needed to ramp up a new semiconductor design operation. The company offers a cost-effective capability to test advanced, high-performance semiconductor products.

Challenges
	Ramping up new semiconductor design group
	Lack technical infrastructure to support semiconductor development team
	Head of new division needed to hire a new team and needed to provide an optimal working environment
	Required configured EDA applications, flows, methodology, hardware, infrastructure and CAD support
	Immediate productivity was needed to produce new products to meet revenue targets
Cadence Solution
	Provided a complete hosted custom IC engineering environment
	Provided infrastructure and use model
Business Impact
	Optimal time-to-productivity – Engineers gained immediate access to a production-ready custom IC environment
	Risk mitigation – Provided a complete custom IC environment from day one – Customer contracted with their foundry partner, and Cadence performed the setup and configuration – Dynamically scaled up the capabilities of the customer's engineering environment as their team grew

Customer

Established European company founded in 1997 with 73 employees, successfully producing GPS ICs, modules and services. Senior management was seeking cost reduction and increased productivity.

Challenges
	Difficulty maintaining a stable and efficient design environment
	Needed to reduce total cost of engineering
Cadence Solution
	Provided a complete custom IC engineering environment
	Augmented the clients implementation team by providing VCAD services
Business Impact
	Reduced total cost of engineering spend – Proved financial relevance and showed productivity increase
	Improved productivity of team by providing a stable, maintained, and directly supported engineering environment

Customer

A government-funded non-profit incubator for China semiconductor startups with plans to significantly increase customer base required for increased (next-level) of government funding.

Challenges
	Had no feasible method of attracting customers that are not able or willing to work within the incubator
	Lacked deep expertise with developing use models and supporting customer design teams. (e.g., needed to support client base beyond just providing access to software and hardware)
Cadence Solution
	Provided a customized IT infrastructure update to the customer, enabling the secure and remote access
	Offered hosted solution for use by China semiconductor startups
	Provided operational maintenance and support for the environment
Business Impact
	Increased customer base
	Differentiated incubator by allowing Cadence customer to provide stable and supported engineering environments
	Provided incubator the capability of offering the company’s customers access to flexible easy to use environments
	Customers can start engineering work from anywhere