Cadence and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Accelerate AI-Driven Engineering and Scientific Innovation

Cadence and NVIDIA Expand Collaboration for AI-Driven Innovation

Cadence Design Systems, a leading computational software company, has announced an expansion of its multi-year partnership with NVIDIA, focusing on accelerated computing and agentic AI. This collaboration aims to address global technology challenges and drive innovation across various industries 1

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Leveraging NVIDIA's Blackwell Architecture

Cadence will utilize NVIDIA's latest Blackwell architecture to accelerate its engineering and scientific solutions. This integration has led to significant performance improvements:

1. Reduction of computational fluid dynamics simulation times by up to 80 times, from days to minutes
2. Acceleration of the Cadence Spectre X Simulator by up to 10 times
3. 3D-IC design and analysis for thermal, stress, and warpage accelerated by up to 7 times 2

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Breakthrough in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Using its Fidelity CFD Platform, Cadence successfully ran multi-billion cell simulations on NVIDIA GB200 GPUs in under 24 hours. This achievement is particularly significant for the aerospace industry, as it could potentially reduce the need for wind tunnel tests, thereby cutting costs and expediting time to market 1

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Agentic AI and Full-Stack Solutions

The partnership also involves the development of a full-stack agentic AI solution for electronic and system design, as well as science applications. This collaboration will integrate:

1. Cadence's JedAI Platform
2. NVIDIA's NeMo generative AI framework
3. The newly announced NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Reasoning Model 2

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Advancements in Molecular Sciences and Drug Discovery

Cadence Molecular Sciences (OpenEye) is integrating NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM microservices with its cloud-native molecular design platform, Orion. This collaboration aims to accelerate tools for drug discovery by combining cutting-edge AI and GPUs in the cloud 2

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Digital Twin Technology for AI Infrastructure

Cadence is one of the first adopters of the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins. This partnership is driving the creation of consistent and accurate models to enable the rapid development of data center digital twins. The integration includes:

1. NVIDIA Omniverse Viewport
2. Cadence Allegro X Design Platform
3. Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform 2

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Impact on Industry and Innovation

Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, stated, "Accelerated computing and agentic AI are setting new standards for innovation across industries." This collaboration is expected to transform various sectors by enabling complex simulations that were previously impossible, driving efficiency, and fueling scientific discovery 1

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Dr. Anirudh Devgan, president and CEO of Cadence, emphasized the significance of this partnership, stating, "We're enabling the delivery of today's infrastructure AI and agentic AI and transforming the principled simulations that underpin physical AI and sciences AI." 2

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