The collaboration is intended to provide engineers with up to 10X improvement in design and verification throughput, accelerating time to market. Cadence tools have been tested and benchmarked on Google Cloud with performance improvements of up to 25% on Google Cloud C2D instances compared with an on-prem infrastructure.
Customers using the Cadence Cloud Passport on Google Cloud have already realized significant benefits, such as: Scale and Elasticity: delivering unprecedented capability and flexibility to meet customers’ peak demands; state-of-the-art compute: access to the latest state-of-the-art high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure and tools; and start-up time efficiency: lowering barriers to entry and speeding up time to solution by enabling their global engineering teams where they work
Google silicon teams have used Cadence cloud-ready tools for verification, implementation, and system analysis workloads on Google Cloud, leveraging flexible consumption models by Cadence.
Google’s silicon teams have successfully developed the Tensor system-on-chip (SoC) and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) using Cadence cloud-ready tools running on the Google Cloud GCP HPC-optimised infrastructure. Its silicon teams also used the Cadence Jasper Formal Verification platform in the cloud to improve the reliability of TPU designs significantly.
“We’re excited to collaborate with Cadence to bring their modelling and simulation software to Google Cloud customers,” said Sachin Gupta, VP and GM of Infrastructure, Google Cloud. “Together we bring unprecedented functionality, scale, and access, which will enable the next wave of innovative industry products in the electronic design and computer-aided engineering market segments.”
“By furthering our collaboration with Google Cloud, we’re helping customers leverage the massive scalability of the cloud and improve overall design productivity,” added Nimish Modi, senior vice president and general manager, Strategy and New Ventures at Cadence. “Combining the power of our computational software with Google Cloud high-performance compute gives our customers access to a proven solution that provides a competitive advantage.”
