Full-flow digital and signoff tools for mobile Arm-based designs

Cadence Design Systems has announced that its full-flow digital and signoff tools and the Cadence Verification Suite support the new Arm Cortex-A76 processor for laptops and smartphones. To speed the adoption of Arm’s latest processor, the company delivered a new 7nm Rapid Adoption Kit (RAK) to allow customers to better power, performance, and area (PPA) and accelerate time to market. The company has also worked closely with Arm to ensure that the Verification Suite increases overall verification productivity for customers using Cortex-A76. “The launch of the Cortex-A76 processors enables new opportunities innovation in laptops, smartphones, and more advanced compute devices with an unprecedented 35% leap in year-over-year IPC performance,” said Nandan Nayampally, vice president and general manager, Client Line of Business, Arm. “Through continued engagement with Cadence we’re providing enhanced development environments that drive differentiation for our customers as they deliver intelligent solutions.” “We’ve worked closely with Arm to ensure that our digital implementation and signoff solutions and the Cadence Verification Suite support the Cortex-A76 processor so customers can create innovative 7nm designs efficiently and with excellent power, performance and area metrics,” said Dr. Chin-Chi Teng, corporate vice president and general manager in the Digital and Signoff Group at Cadence. “The ongoing collaboration with Arm provides designers with confidence that the combination of Cadence and Arm technologies can enable successful projects which can be delivered to market faster.”