Cadence achieves AWS industrial software competency status for its Cloud-Hosted Design Solution

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Cadence Design Systems’ Cloud-Hosted Design Solution has undergone technical validation and achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Industrial Software Competency status.

This recognises the Cadence solution has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success with electronic systems and semiconductor companies. The Cloud-Hosted Design Solution is designed to help customers increase the pace of product innovation while decreasing production and operational overhead. It does this by providing a turnkey cloud solution optimised for systems and semiconductor projects.

The Cadence Cloud-Hosted Design Solution is based on a Cadence-patented architecture. It provides software tools in a supported, managed and Electronic Design Automation (EDA)-optimised design environment built on AWS that has been customised for company-specific infrastructure and design requirements.

According to Cadence, it enhances customer cloud success through intelligent scalability that uses the optimal infrastructure type for each unique software workload to optimise cloud performance. The solution supports High-Performance Compute (HPC) instance families, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and the new Amazon EC2 z1d instances.

Cadence has also achieved Advanced Technology Partner status in the APN. For more information on AWS Industrial Software Competency.