Product
Key Benefits
Predict the Impact of Change to Make Better Long-Term Decisions
Ensure Data Center Sustainability
Prioritize sustainable design and operations with carbon usage analytics and energy-efficiency reports
Improve Capacity Utilization
Control resource utilization to maximize current infrastructure and meet SLA requirements in a safe, virtualized environment
Minimize Risk of Downtime
Perform transient simulations to visualize how the data center will operate over time and in failure scenarios
Maximize Performance and Reduce Costs
Study and effectively track impacts of deployment, power, space, cooling, weight, network port capacity, and decommissioning
Enhance Efficiency and Reliability
Optimize performance, reduce risks, and achieve substantial energy savings with Cadence’s advanced design software, IP, and digital twin technology
Applications
Data Center Solutions Across Industry Verticals
The challenges faced by different types of data centers can vary widely depending on their scale, purpose, and technology infrastructure. Each type of data center, whether enterprise, colocation, hyperscale, or on-premises, encounters these challenges in different magnitudes and requires tailored strategies to overcome them effectively.
Enterprise
Large global automotive, healthcare, finance, and aerospace companies use Cadence’s data center software to design and operate their data centers effectively. Our data center software helps enterprises accurately and quickly balance risk, capacity, and efficiency. To ensure smooth operations, the software can seamlessly integrate with existing DCIM and monitoring systems to give a continuous and accurate view of the live data center.
Colocation
Achieving a streamlined selling process to keep up with demand and maximized capacity across the colocation portfolio is easier said than done. Cadence’s data center software can help. With built-in colocation features, our data center software automates previously tedious, often difficult tasks to help colocation teams optimize capacity and mitigate risk. Colocation data centers can use simulation data to make informed, reliable decisions and ultimately operate more confidently.
Hyperscale
To successfully meet the growing computing demands of new technologies, such as AI/ML, hyperscale owner-operators must eliminate the uncertainty caused by new assets and infrastructural changes. Cadence’s data center software helps organizations predict and plan for the impact of these changes to ensure critical goals are met without overspending on design and operations. The software provides a holistic, physics-based solution from chip to chiller that cross-functional teams can use to mitigate risk and safeguard business continuity.
Consultants
Consultants can troubleshoot and improve data center design—internally and externally—using Cadence’s data center software. The software is packed with features that streamline the model creation process and provide a complete overview of data center cooling, airflow, and power. With over 8,500 library items of data center-specific equipment and a powerful computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver, it’s easy to build digital twin models, simulate data center cooling and power, and demonstrate design concepts to clients all within one platform.
Vendors
Creating powerful, resilient equipment is already complex and time-consuming, but ensuring this equipment can perform well across various data center configurations adds another level of complexity to the design process. Cadence’s physics-based simulation software empowers data center vendors with the ability to model equipment and assess the equipment’s performance in a virtual data center environment. Without divulging details of the system, vendors can also include characterized models of their equipment as part of Cadence’s library, so other data center teams can easily demonstrate the performance of the equipment within their unique data center configuration.
Protocol IP
The Cadence IP portfolio offers a comprehensive suite of IP solutions designed to meet the demanding requirements of modern data centers. Cadence engineers its high-performance interface IP, including PCI Express (PCIe®), UALink, CXL, DDR, HBM, UltraEthernet (UEC), and Ethernet, to provide exceptional bandwidth, low latency, and low power consumption, ensuring efficient data transfer and connectivity.
Cadence’s UALink, UEC, and IP support the latest specifications, delivering robust solutions for the most stringent data center. A full portfolio of memory options is available for memory solutions: Advanced memories such as HBM and GDDR for AI training applications in data centers and DDR and LPDDR for traditional capacity-oriented applications. Ultra Ethernet and standard Ethernet IP provide high-speed networking capabilities for seamless data communication within and between data centers.
Cadence's IP solutions are validated through silicon testing and are optimized for advanced process technologies, ensuring reliability and performance in real-world applications. By collaborating with leading foundries and technology partners, our IP are built to comply with the latest standards while delivering the highest possible performance.
3D-IC Design/UCIe PHY and Controllers
The demand for complex designs has led to the integration of memory, computing, and dedicated accelerators in packages versus on-chip. Cadence offers a comprehensive product portfolio for 3D-IC design, including chiplet-related IP, verification, digital and analog implementation flows, and multi-domain system analysis. This approach enables fast, flexible derivatives and includes thermal effects analysis, computational fluid dynamics tools, and the Cadence Integrity 3D-IC platform for designing multiple chiplets.
The Integrity 3D-IC platform, built on Cadence’s digital implementation capabilities, enables system-level designers to plan, implement, and analyze stacked die systems for various packaging styles (2.5D or 3D). It offers a 3D-IC stack planning system, seamless integration with Cadence Innovus Implementation System and Integrity System Planner through scripts, and integrated system-level analysis capabilities for robust 3D-IC design through early electrothermal and cross-die static timing analysis (STA). A common cockpit and database allow SoC and package design teams to co-optimize the complete system concurrently, efficiently incorporating system-level feedback.
Cadence Verification for SoC
The Cadence full verification flow provides optimal verification throughput and simulation, emulation, prototyping, formal verification, verification planning, debug, and test automation. Using system performance analysis, developers can analyze the effects of AI/ML software workloads on specific design architectures for early hardware/software co-development. With hybrid emulation and prototyping, developers can create relevant controlled scenarios with software models of AI processors. Verification IP (VIP) optimized for data center designs allows driving traffic for IP and subsystem verification.
Dynamic power analysis, combining verification and implementation tools, allows analysis of power trends while running AI/ML workloads. The comprehensive solution for low power, including architecture optimization, power estimation and analysis, functional verification, implementation and signoff, and IP for digital and mixed-signal designs at both chip and system levels. Our offerings support both industry-standard power intent formats (CPF and IEEE 1801), enabling customers to adopt the design flow of their choice. They are production-proven on thousands of designs, mitigating the risk of respins and reducing product development time and costs.
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