Cadence Design Systems is a leading global electronic design automation (EDA) company that provides software, hardware, and intellectual property (IP) to design advanced semiconductors, integrated circuits (ICs), and electronic systems. Cadence’s tools are widely used in various industries, including electronics, telecommunications, automotive, aerospace, and more.
Cadence Fidelity CFD software is used in today’s design processes, such as propulsion, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and combustion, to improve and increase the efficiency of products without relying on time-consuming and expensive physical testing. Over the last decade, tools and methods have been constantly improved to increase productivity and reduce time to results.
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Cadence Fidelity provides an end-to-end CFD solution for multidisciplinary design and optimization for applications from the aerospace, automotive, turbomachinery, and marine industries. Fidelity, with its streamlined workflows, a massively parallel architecture, and state-of-the-art solver technology, provides unprecedented performance and accuracy and increases engineering efficiency for today’s design challenges.
CFD Workflow Acceleration
Cadence leverages its 30+ years of expertise in computational software to impact and accelerate all steps of the design process, including creating strong automation for preprocessing and meshing, solving with technology advancements and GPU acceleration, and learning through AI-driven optimization with the Cadence Optimality Intelligent System Explorer. Streamlined workflows, strong automation, state-of-the-art solver acceleration, and intelligent analysis unlock the full potential of Fidelity CFD and provide more than 10X acceleration across all steps of the simulation process for faster time to results.
Preprocessing and meshing: Up to 80% of engineering time is still spent on manual geometry preprocessing and meshing. Fidelity CFD software enables engineers to overcome this bottleneck with an automated, AI-driven methodology that cuts preprocessing and meshing time from days to hours. In addition, designers can create high-fidelity meshes with 100% viscous layer coverage for highly accurate results.
Cadence Design Systems began as an electronic design automation (EDA) company, formed by the 1988 merger of Solomon Design Automation (SDA), co-founded in 1983 by Richard Newton, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, and James Solomon, and ECAD, a public company co-founded by Ping Chao, Glen Antle, and Paul Huang in 1982. SDA’s CEO Joseph Costello was appointed as CEO of the newly combined company.
Following the resignation of Cadence’s original CEO Joe Costello in 1997, Jack Harding was appointed CEO.Ray Bingham was named CEO in 1999.[6] In 2004, Mike Fister became Cadence’s new CEO.
In 2008, Cadence’s board appointed Lip-Bu Tan as acting CEO, after the resignation of Mike Fister; Tan had served on the Cadence board of directors since 2004.[8] In January 2009, the board of directors of Cadence voted unanimously to confirm Lip-Bu Tan as president and CEO. Tan had been most recently CEO of Walden International, a venture capital firm, where he remains chairman of the firm.
In April 2021, following a Washington Post report on the use of Cadence and Synopsys technology in the People’s Liberation Army’s military-civil fusion efforts,[10] U.S. legislators Michael McCaul and Tom Cotton requested that the United States Department of Commerce tighten controls on the sales of semiconductor manufacturing software.
On December 15, 2021, Anirudh Devgan assumed the role of president & CEO, and Lip-Bu Tan became executive chairman. Devgan joined Cadence in 2012 and was appointed president in 2017.