Electronics today can be found everywhere – in your pocket, in your tablet or laptop, in your car, at your workplace, and in buildings and homes. Smartphones and other mobile devices combine incredible compute power with the ability to be connected anywhere, any time. Hundreds of thousands of applications or “apps” are available for a myriad of connected devices.

Behind this newly connected, application-rich world is a quiet revolution in semiconductor design and manufacturing. Today’s chips may have billions of transistors that are each far smaller than the wavelength of light used to print them. Systems-on-chips (SoCs) combine processors, memory, analog components, interface protocols, and more. Electronic systems demand massive amounts of embedded software, and semiconductor companies are increasingly expected to provide it.

The design of chips and systems with such complexity – while meeting demands for performance, low power, and time to market – is possible only with advanced electronic design automation (EDA) tools. EDA software and hardware enables everything from the design of individual transistors to the development of software before any hardware is built. Another crucial enabling factor is semiconductor intellectual property (IP), which provides pre-verified building blocks for memory controllers, interface protocols, or specialized processors that are integrated into SoCs.

Cadence is a leading provider of EDA and semiconductor IP. Our custom/analog tools help engineers design the transistors, standard cells, and IP blocks that make up SoCs. Our digital tools automate the design and verification of giga-scale, giga-hertz SoCs at the latest semiconductor processing nodes. Our IC packaging and PCB tools permit the design of complete boards and subsystems.

Cadence also offers a growing portfolio of design IP and verification IP for memories, interface protocols, analog/mixed-signal components, and specialized processors. And reaching up to the systems level, Cadence offers an integrated suite of hardware/software co-development platforms. In short, Cadence® technology helps customers build great products that connect the world.