Automotive Solutions

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A Depth of Knowledge and Experience to Meet the Challenges Automakers Face

The automotive industry is rapidly evolving, and autonomous and electric vehicles are some of the fastest-growing applications in the automotive industry. Today’s vehicles are now moving toward new vehicle architectures to address the compute and in-vehicle networking bandwidth requirements. This will drive complex and consolidated electronic control units (ECUs) running at giga-Hertz frequencies that need to be designed and optimized for scalability, performance, power efficiency, thermal, and EMI robustness.

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Key Benefits

Advanced Tools and Flows Specifically for Automotive SoCs, Packages, Boards, and Systems

Highly Automated

Integrated functional safety flows, from FMEDA to safety-aware implementation

Chiplet Solution

Most comprehensive solution for heterogeneous chiplet-based SoC design

Scalable

High-performance multi-core DSP and AI platform for automotive

End-to-End Solutions

Seamless design flows from chip to package to board and systems

ISO 26262 Compliant

Fit for use with ASIL A through ASIL D automotive design projects

Advanced Node

Innovative IC design tools and flows supporting the latest process technologies down to 3nm

Applications

In 2030, Electronics Are Projected to Make Up ~50% of the Cost of a New Car

Cadence can help to enable automakers and OEMs with various aspects of automotive design:

ADAS / AD — Designing scalable systems that process high-resolution sensor data, enabling vehicles to fully capture their surroundings
Electric Vehicles — Meeting evolving safety, emissions, and energy standards for electric vehicles, while ensuring reliability and user experience
Infotainment — Keeping infotainment systems up to date with the latest features and connectivity, including audio, voice, speech, DMS, digital mirror, park assistance, and AI
In-Vehicle Networking — Offering design and verification IP for automotive Ethernet, MIPI A/C/D-PHY, PCIe, and CAN, and compliance kits and tools
Functional Safety — Automating FMEDA, safety design, verification, analysis, and documentation for IP, SoCs, and system designs, saving time and effort
Software Defined Vehicle — In order to accelerate the development of software-defined vehicles (SDVs) a SOAFEE-compliant reference SoC and virtual platform has been developed. This reference platform can be easily augmented and tailored for a specific application to speed-up the creation of new functions for SDVs that can evolve over time

Offerings

Helping the Automotive Industry Make Cars Safe, Secure, Reliable, and Efficient

System Analysis

The demand for high-performance electronic systems is rising due to their increasing complexity and density. Designers must guarantee that the chip or ECU operates seamlessly within the complete system of the vehicle. To ensure this, an integrated analysis that covers multiple areas such as thermal, radio frequency, electromagnetic, signal integrity, power integrity, and fluid dynamics is essential. This thorough analysis ensures that the system is verified at all levels, ranging from the chip to the board to the ECU.

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Computational Fluid Dynamics

The possibilities for optimizing vehicles are almost endless, from external aerodynamics and acoustics to engine efficiency, electrification, and comfort. Cadence CFD tools can be utilized for a variety of purposes to accommodate multiple simulation requirements, at the necessary speed and accuracy levels. They offer quick results, ensuring that project timelines are met while allowing for the exploration of design enhancements.

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ECU Design

The automobile has always presented challenges for electronic design and signal accuracy. With the increasing complexity of electronic control systems, higher computing performance, faster data rates, and fewer ECUs per car, modern ECUs face significant design, integration, and verification challenges. Cadence is the only company that provides integrated design tools for all the PCB, system-in-package (SiP), and SoC fabrics, ensuring a cohesive and integrated ECU design and analysis.

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SoC Design

The complexity of automotive SoCs and systems is continuously increasing due to AD and chip/system consolidation. It is expected that both monolithic and chiplet-based SoCs will need to utilize the most advanced process technologies that are qualified for automotive purposes. For this reason, Cadence IC, packaging and IP solutions offer complete, integrated, and silicon-proven design flows for custom/analog, digital, and mixed-signal SoCs. This is to ensure that automotive designers meet the demanding standards for quality, reliability, and safety.

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Chiplets

The integration of multiple heterogeneous on-package chiplets makes it easier to combine 2D and 2.5D dies from different sources, fabs, designs, and packaging technologies. This on-package mix and match of components for SoC construction is made possible by the Cadence UCIe PHY, Controller, and VIP, while leading 3D-IC tools provide designers with the full capability to improve PPA, increase performance, and close timing for multi-chiplet designs using advanced or standard packages.

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Cadence Differentiators

Unleash Your Imagination and Turn Great Ideas into Reality

Intelligent System Design – Cadence provides end-to-end solutions across IP, chips, packages, PCBs, and systems, allowing automakers to meet demanding design requirements and deliver extraordinary products.
Computational Software – Cadence enables designers by addressing the complex computing demands of artificial intelligence, 5G, and high-performance computing, resulting in pervasive intelligence across autonomous vehicles.
ISO 26262 TCL Compliance – Cadence is the first EDA supplier to achieve a comprehensive "Fit for Purpose - Tool Confidence Level" certification up to TCL3, meeting the ISO 26262 standard and approved for use in ASIL A through ASIL D automotive design projects. Download the Automotive Functional Safety Document Kits