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Cadence Ushers in New Era of Datacenter-class Emulation with Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform

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SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 16, 2015 — (PRNewswire) —  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), today unveiled the Cadence® Palladium® Z1 enterprise emulation platform, the industry's first datacenter-class emulation system, delivering up to 5X greater emulation throughput than the previous generation, with an average 2.5X greater workload efficiency than the closest competitor. With enterprise-level reliability and scalability, the Palladium Z1 platform executes up to 2304 parallel jobs and scales up to 9.2 billion gates, addressing the growing market requirement for emulation technology that can be efficiently utilized across global design teams to verify increasingly complex systems-on-chip (SoCs).

New Cadence Palladium Z1 enterprise emulation platform delivers up to 5x greater emulation throughput, with an average 2.5x greater workload efficiency than its closest competitor

"The design and verification of our very complex devices requires us to employ sophisticated tools such as hardware emulation for fast and reliable system development," said Narenda Konda, director of engineering at NVIDIA. "Due to the Palladium Z1 platform's capacity to handle our billion gate-class designs and its highly sophisticated debug and advanced multiuser capabilities, all in a small form factor, we will be able to design and deliver our next generation GPU and Tegra designs with high quality and on schedule."

For more on NVIDIA's experience, please see the video at http://www.cadence.com/news/PalladiumZ1/Nvidia  

A true datacenter resource enabling maximum utilization, Palladium Z1 enterprise emulation platform features a rack-based blade architecture to provide enterprise-class reliability, a 92 percent smaller footprint and 8X better gate density than the Palladium XP II platform. Optimizing the utilization of the emulation resource, Palladium Z1 platform offers a unique virtual target relocation capability, and payload allocation into available resources at run time, avoiding re-compiles. With its unique massively parallel processor-based architecture, Palladium Z1 platform offers 4X better user granularity than its nearest competitor.

"For our advanced SoC designs we are facing thousands of verification payloads of varying sizes from dozens of different projects," said Daniel Diao, deputy general manager of the Turing Processor Business Unit at Huawei. "The Palladium Z1 platform uniquely met our requirements due to its reliability as a datacenter compute resource, offering advanced multi-user capabilities and scalability from small four million gate verification payloads to multi-billion gate designs, allowing us to ensure system functionality in short project schedules."

Additional key features and benefits of the Palladium Z1 platform include:

"We continue to see customer demand for doubling of available emulation capacity every two years, driven by short project schedules amid growing verification complexity and requirements on quality, hardware-software integration, and power consumption," said Daryn Lau, vice president and general manager, Hardware and System Verification, Cadence. "With Palladium Z1 platform as one of the pillars of the System Development Suite, design teams can finally utilize emulation as a compute resource in the datacenter akin to blade server-based compute farms for simulation, and improve schedules while enabling more verification automation to address the growing impact of verification on end product delivery."

For more information on the Palladium Z1 enterprise emulation platform, please visit http://www.cadence.com/news/PalladiumZ1.

About Cadence

Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software, hardware, IP, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products, and services is available at http://www.cadence.com.

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