Overview
Transforming the Automotive Industry with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a revolution across multiple sectors, and the automotive industry stands as a testament to its transformative impact. AI has not only enhanced autonomous driving capabilities but also triggered a fundamental redesign of vehicle platforms. From optimizing manufacturing processes to streamlining supply chain management, and from harnessing complex system-on-chip (SoC) technologies to ensuring electromagnetic interference robustness, Cadence's AI portfolio is paving the way for the next-generation automotive industry.
Key Benefits
Expertise in Designing and Verifying Complex AI Automotive Systems
Autonomous Driving
Technologies such as lidar, navigation systems, and driver monitoring utilize AI algorithms to enhance vehicle perception, decision-making, and control
Infotainment and Personal Conveniences
NLP and voice recognition enhance driving with AI-powered personalization for music, climate, and navigation, creating a seamless, tailored experience
Redesigning Vehicle Platforms
Zonal architecture enables efficient distributed computing and 5G technology for seamless data transfer and connectivity across vehicle systems
AI/ML Tools in Design and Development
Cadence’s AI software shorten vehicle design time by leveraging previous iterations, expediting design experiments, and accelerating innovative designs to market
Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management
AI robots and computer vision boost assembly line automation and precision, enhancing efficiency, quality control and supply chain management
Onboard Services and Personalization
AI links onboard services to preferences, offering personalized recommendations and concierge services, elevating the driving experience through customization and convenience
Offerings
Cadence Technology Offers Distinctive Solutions for Automotive Chip and System Design
Fidelity CFD
In the dynamic realm of automotive design, CFD has become indispensable, meeting the industry's demands for efficient propulsion, aerodynamics, and heat transfer. Fidelity CFD stands as a pinnacle of trust and reliability, providing automotive engineers and designers with a seamless blend of accuracy and speed. With its advanced simulations, this software enables experts to gain vital insights into fluid behavior, allowing for the optimization of aerodynamics, thermal management, and overall vehicle performance.
Whether it's refining the aerodynamic profile of a sports car or enhancing the airflow around an electric vehicle, Fidelity CFD drives innovation and excellence in automotive design, leading to the creation of high-performing, technologically advanced vehicles.
Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer
Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer revolutionizes automotive design through automated, machine learning-driven chip optimization. It streamlines the design flow, ensuring superior power, performance, and area (PPA) outcomes your SoC design. Engineers can concurrently optimize multiple blocks, enhancing productivity and speeding up the process from RTL to GDS.
Cerebrus scales efficiently with distributed computing and is adaptable for on-premises or cloud resources. Its intuitive interface offers interactive results analysis, empowering engineers for seamless control and accelerated innovation in automotive chip design.
AI IP Platform
Cadence is a leading semiconductor IP provider, offering cutting-edge solutions for advanced AI/ML applications enhancing autonomous systems and enabling real-time data analysis. The Cadence AI IP platform includes the extensible Tensilica DSP portfolio with flexible instruction sets designed to perform AI workload operations efficiently. Mixing AI and DSP workloads in a single application is easy with Tensilica DSPs and can be seamlessly integrated in automotive SoCs.
Cadence Neo NPUs lead the AI IP portfolio, delivering a wide performance range. The Neo NPUs provide accelerated AI processing that can be scaled up to 100s of theoretical operations per second (TOPS) through multi-core topologies. These AI accelerators are designed to efficiently deliver high-performance processing for convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and transformer-based networks, supporting the transition from classic to generative AI.
Palladium Z2 and Protium X2
Cadence's advanced emulation and prototyping systems play a pivotal role in automotive design by enabling rigorous IP/SoC design verification, system validation, and hardware/software regressions. In the ever-evolving landscape of automotive, these systems facilitate multiple validation cycles on larger SoCs in significantly less time. The dynamic duo of Palladium Z2 and Protium X2 ensures comprehensive and rapid hardware debug alongside high-performance, multi-billion gate software validation.
This integrated approach not only accelerates the verification process but also enhances the reliability and efficiency of automotive systems, making them robust and ready for the challenges of the future.
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