Key Benefits
- Easy access to cloud-ready Cadence software for customer-managed cloud environments
- High-reliability license server maintains uptime
- Can be combined with other Cadence Cloud offerings
For customers interested in establishing and maintaining their own cloud environment, Cadence offers the Cadence® Cloud Passport model. With the Cloud Passport, customers gain the contractual ability to place Cadence software in their own public cloud environment. Customers maintain ownership of their public cloud relationships and serve as the only point of contact with the public cloud vendor they have chosen to deploy within their company. Using this model, customer CAD and IT teams are solely responsible for the setup, maintenance, and support of their own public cloud environment. Current customers have used this model with several different public cloud vendors, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Cloud-Ready Tools
Cloud-ready tools include the Cadence software that has been qualified to run as expected on a compute cluster provisioned on the public cloud. The initial qualification process has focused on products that natively benefit from the massive scalability of the cloud. Current Cadence products that are cloud ready include tools for circuit simulation, power and EM analysis, logic simulation, formal verification, physical verification, timing signoff, extraction, power integrity, and library characterization. Additional tools will become available based on customer need.
Flexible Models
The Cloud Passport is suited for companies who have the means and expertise to manage their own cloud infrastructure internally. Additionally, the Cloud Passport can be combined with any other Cadence Cloud offering, so customers can subscribe both to the Cloud Passport model to run cloud-ready tools within their own public cloud environment and leverage the Cadence-managed Cloud-Hosted Design Solution or Palladium® Cloud solutions for specific peak or project needs.
Cloud Passport Partners
Moving to the cloud often requires new knowledge and capabilities that not every company possesses. The Cadence Cloud Passport Partner Program gives customers an easier path to the cloud by connecting them with knowledgeable service providers who are authorized to deploy Cadence tools in cloud environments.
We successfully ran more than 500 million instances flat using the fully distributed Cadence Tempus Timing Signoff Solution on the CloudBurst platform via AWS to complete the tapeout of our latest TSMC 7nm networking chip. This would have been impossible to achieve in the required timeframe if we hadn’t deployed...
Dan Lenoski, chief development officer and co-founder, Barefoot Networks
This new offering [CloudBurst] from Cadence has met TSMC’s goal of the OIP VDE simplifying cloud adoption and demonstrated its ability to provide innovative service to our mutual customers with secure access to a simple-to-create, cloud-based environment that allows cloud bursting for peak needs…
Suk Lee, senior director of Design Infrastructure Management Division, TSMC
By utilizing the Cadence CloudBurst platform, customers can easily leverage the scale of Microsoft Azure in order to meet their peak capacity requirements thereby speeding up the time-to-market for their complex designs.
Rani Borkar, corporate vice president, Microsoft Azure
Arm is seeing strong demand in the industry for cloud services that alleviate peak resource needs. One way Arm is addressing this demand is by working with Cadence to provide our mutual customers with a cloud-based library characterization...
Ron Moore, vice president of business planning, Physical Design Group, Arm
By initially launching the Cadence Cloud portfolio on AWS, Cadence demonstrated early leadership in the industry. We’re excited to continue working with Cadence to help systems and semiconductor companies realize the benefits of the cloud and greatly accelerate their digital transformation.
Terry Wise, global vice president of Channels and Alliances, Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Cadence has passed our rigorous cloud security audits and is authorized to engage with mutual customers on the Cadence Cloud using TSMC process models and rule decks.
Suk Lee, Senior Director Design Infrastructure Marketing Division, TSMC
Our Cadence and AWS deployment is allowing us to deliver our platform-on-chip and subsystems for networking, storage and security applications faster so that we maintain not only our own competitive advantage but also that of AWS.
Nafea Bshara, vice president, distinguished engineer, and co-founder Annapurna Labs
We started using Cadence HDS on-premise with great success a few years ago because we needed full infrastructure and CAD and IT staff support. Now as our company has grown, we have decided to make the move to the Cadence Cloud-Hosted Design Solution deployed on Microsoft Azure in order to improve scalability.
Ronnie Huang, CTO and co-founder, CNEX Labs, Inc
We’ve chosen to collaborate with Cadence because we see a great opportunity in front of us to move systems and semiconductor companies to the cloud via Google Cloud Platform.
Adam Massey, Director, Strategic Technology Partners, Google Cloud
Through use of the Cadence Cloud-Hosted Design Solution deployed on AWS, we have successfully modernized our IT infrastructure for silicon design. The cloud-based approach enhanced collaboration of our world-class team, and Cadence’s support has allowed a seamless move to this new service delivery model.
Simon Morling, vice president product development, DNA Electronics Ltd.
Our mutual customers are benefiting from the flexible Cadence Cloud portfolio of cloud-optimized services and tools coupled with Azure’s focus on silicon design workloads, scalability, and economies of scale to manage exploding demand, reduce costs, and decrease time to market.
Kushagra Vaid, GM and distinguished engineer, Azure Hardware Infrastructure, Microsoft Corp
The Cadence approach to the cloud addresses historical industry issues, opening the door for customers to adopt the cloud and enter the next generation of chip design development.
Richard Wawrzyniak, principal analyst for ASIC & SoC at Semico Research Corp.