Cadence leverages NVIDIA Grace Blackwell to accelerate AI driven engineering design and scientific applications

Integrating design expertise with accelerated computing to drive technological innovation, achieve breakthroughs in energy efficiency and engineering productivity, and lead a new paradigm of global living
Summary: Cadence leverages NVIDIA's latest Blackwell system to increase solver speed by up to 80 times
Based on the new NVIDIA Llama Nemotron inference model, we collaborate to develop a full stack proxy AI solution for engineering design and scientific applications
Pioneering the adoption of NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins, aimed at achieving efficient data center design and operation
Shanghai, China, March 24, 2025- Cadence Electronics (NASDAQ: CDNS) announced today the expansion of its multi-year partnership with NVIDIA, with a focus on driving the development of accelerated computing and proxy AI. This cooperation aims to address key global technological challenges, promote innovative development in various industries, and achieve substantial breakthroughs.
Cadence drives technological innovation across multiple industries by integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing technology. Based on NVIDIA's latest Blackwell architecture, the Cadence series of engineering and scientific solutions achieve large-scale acceleration, enabling designers to tackle larger and more complex problems that were previously difficult to solve. The results of this collaboration are as follows:
The simulation time of computational fluid dynamics has been reduced by up to 80 times, from a few days to tens of minutes
Cadence Spectre X Simulator accelerates up to 10 times faster
3D-IC design and analysis of thermal, stress, and warpage can be accelerated up to 7 times
Cadence Fidelity CFD platform utilizes Blackwell to solve the most complex fluid mechanics problems
Cadence utilizes the NVIDIA Blackwell platform to help solve a major challenge in computational fluid dynamics (CFD): simulating the entire aircraft in the most challenging parts of the flight envelope (during takeoff and landing). With the help of the Cadence Fidelity CFD platform, Cadence successfully ran simulations of billions of grid cells on NVIDIA GB200 GPU in less than 24 hours. Prior to this, the simulation process relied on a Top 500 CPU cluster with hundreds of thousands of cores and took several days to complete. Cadence will continue to utilize the limits of Blackwell test simulation to help the aerospace industry reduce wind tunnel testing frequency, lower costs, and accelerate the time to market process.
In addition, Cadence has partnered with NVIDIA to develop full stack proxy AI solutions for electronic system design and scientific applications. This collaboration will introduce breakthrough proxy technology, integrating the Cadence JedAI platform with NVIDIA's NeMo generative AI framework and newly released NVIDIA Llama Nemotron inference model to improve design productivity, such as:
Intelligent conversational AI assistant that can improve user productivity and innovation capabilities
Deep verification reasoning based on underlying design resources and verification agents
Utilize design agents to generate and optimize digital and customized circuit designs
In addition, Cadence Molecular Sciences (OpenEye) is integrating NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM microservices with Cadence's cloud native molecular design platform Orion. This collaboration aims to accelerate the innovation of drug development tools by combining excellent cloud AI and GPU technologies. Orion has breakthrough on-demand and reserved GPU access capabilities, which can help global scientists carry out large-scale complex computing and revolutionize therapeutic drug design. NIM microservices have extended Orion's capabilities, as follows:
An AI model for predicting protein three-dimensional structures with heavy heads
Small molecule generative AI
Basic AI model for predicting antibody characteristics
Cadence is utilizing NVIDIA's advanced digital twin technology to accelerate the construction of AI infrastructure. Cadence is proud to be one of the first companies to adopt NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint, a digital twin designed for AI factories. This collaboration has promoted consistent and accurate model creation, enabling the rapid development of digital twins in data centers. The integration of NVIDIA Omniverse Viewport, Cadence Allegro X Design Platform, and Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform enables designers to gain a fresh perspective and more precise insight into the entire electronic system design process. Downstream users can utilize data for analysis and use in areas such as device and BOM management, manufacturing interfaces, system level quality, and mechanical and industrial design. NVIDIA and Cadence are at the forefront of creating high-quality model ecosystems, opening the door for device manufacturers and data center companies to quickly and confidently create digital twin solutions.
Cadence is accelerating AI driven EDA and system design and analysis workloads on NVIDIA's latest Grace Blackwell NVL72 platform. We can help deliver infrastructure AI and agent-based AI that meet current needs, and reshape the simulation foundation for physical AI and scientific AI Dr. Anirudh Devgan, President and CEO of Cadence, stated. With these technological breakthroughs, we are able to complete large-scale complex system simulations that were previously difficult to achieve within hours, including some of the largest and most accurate whole machine simulations to date
Accelerated computing and proxy AI are redefining innovation standards in various industries, "said Huang Renxun, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. NVIDIA and Cadence work together to continuously break through technological boundaries, making significant progress in simulation, optimization, and design, helping to improve efficiency, shorten product time to market, and drive scientific exploration to new heights
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Cadence is a market leader in the fields of AI and digital twins, pioneering the use of computing software to accelerate engineering design innovation from silicon wafers to systems. Our design solution is based on Cadence's Intelligent System Design strategy, which can help leading semiconductor and systems companies worldwide build next-generation products (from chips to fully electromechanical systems), serving fields such as ultra large scale computing, mobile communications, automotive, aerospace, industrial, life sciences, and robotics. In 2024, Cadence was selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the "Top 100 Best Management Companies in the World". Cadence solutions offer unlimited opportunities. For more information, please visit the company website www.cadence.com.
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