Cadence Design Systems
CDNS
and Tower Semiconductor (“TSEM”) are teaming up to boost automotive and mobile integrated circuit (IC) development.
Previously, both the companies have collaborated on several occasions to deliver solutions for reference flow (RF) and silicon photonics that have helped their mutual customers to develop advanced offerings.
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The current collaboration is aimed at developing an automotive reference design flow using Cadence’s Virtuoso Design Platform and Spectre Simulation Platform.
This will enable customers to maintain a comprehensive design verification for advanced automotive IC product development, accelerate the design cycle and achieve a faster path to ISO 26262 certification.
Customers can now leverage the advanced RF to meet the high quality and reliability demands of the automotive market.
The collaboration also promotes automotive SoC design and the broader Cadence Intelligent System Design strategy.
Cadence has placed a dedicated team to tap the automotive market and continues to invest heavily in advanced driver assistance systems related technologies.
Recently, Cadence
rolled
out its custom power integrity solution — Cadence Voltus – XFi, which is integrated with Cadence Spectre, Virtuoso and Quantus platforms. The new solution enables the development of efficient, low-power ICs and improves productivity by three times, per a company report.
Prior to that, Cadence collaborated with Arm and Intel Foundry Services (“IFS”) to tap the growing demand for verification and digital design products.
The collaboration with IFS was aimed at addressing complex design workloads for SoCs and accelerating time-to-market.
The collaboration with Arm was aimed at speeding up the mobile device silicon success by combining Cadence digital and verification tools and the Arm Total Compute Solutions 2022.
Cadence offers products and tools that help customers to design electronic products. The company offers software, hardware, services and reusable IC design blocks to electronic systems and semiconductors to customers.
Cadence posted non-GAAP
earnings
of $1.17 per share in first-quarter 2022, which topped the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 15.8% and increased 41% year over year.
Revenues of $902 million surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 5% and increased 23% on a year-over-year basis.
For the second quarter, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenues stands at $837.05 million, up 14.9% year on year. The consensus mark for earnings is pegged at 97 cents per share, up 12.8% year on year.
CDNS currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).Shares of the company have gained 14% against the
industry’s
fall of 15.8% in the past year.
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