Overview
Run More Validation Cycles on Bigger SoCs in Less Time
Cadence Palladium and Protium systems are relied upon by the most advanced AI, automotive, hyperscale, networking, and mobile chip companies. These systems enable the highest throughput pre-silicon hardware debug and pre-silicon software validation, helping to bring products to market faster. They are used on the industry's largest multi-billion-gate SoC designs offering the fastest performance and design bring-up to help shorten the overall time to market.
A Dynamic Duo of Tightly Integrated Systems
Key Benefits
Industry-Leading Congruent Platforms for High-Performance Hardware and Software Verification and Debug
Platform Congruency
Common front-end and solutions allow for consistency of models between emulation and prototyping
Optimized
Comprehensive IP/SoC design verification, system validation, hardware and software regressions, and early software development
Fast and Easy Bring-Up
Reduce the learning curve by using consistent language and flow across Palladium and Protium systems
Comprehensive Debug
FullVision technology provides the detailed visibility required for hardware bring-up and debug, while at-speed probing and transactional monitoring provide debug performance for software development and debug
Products
Dynamic Duo Platforms for Hardware and Software Verification and Debug
Customer Stories
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"Cadence Palladium Z3 and Protium X3 systems add to our capabilities between emulation and enterprise prototyping to improve design productivity and meet time-to-market goals."
Alex Starr, Corporate Fellow, AMD
"The latest hardware verification platforms and tools from Cadence are sparking innovation in Arm IP design for AI, automotive, and data center applications and we look forward to how this will benefit our mutual customers."
Tran Nguyen, senior director of design services, Arm
"Accelerated by NVIDIA networking, the next-generation Cadence Palladium and Protium systems push the boundaries of capacity and performance to help enable a new era of generative AI computing."
Scot Schultz, senior director, Networking at NVIDIA
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