USA: Cadence Design Systems Inc. has announced the availability of its software as a service (SaaS) offerings for semiconductor design.

These production-proven, ready-to-go design environments are accessible via the Internet and provide design teams a faster time-to-productivity with reduced risk and cost. Cadence Hosted Design Solutions are available for custom IC design, logic design, physical design, advanced low power, functional verification, and digital implementation.

Cadence Hosted Design Solutions deliver on a complete solution stack by providing the integrated EDA software suite, along with the associated IT infrastructure, compute, storage, and secure networking capabilities.

"The growing complexity to develop, optimize, and manage design environments along with the need for more efficient collaboration, adds risk and cost to the design cycle," said Vishal Kapoor, group director of Solutions Marketing at Cadence. "By offering these Hosted Design Solutions, Cadence provides customers an optimal set of technologies and use models, delivered on a hosted and managed infrastructure, all at a lower cost."

Hosted Design Solutions are built upon the foundation of Cadence's proven secure collaboration infrastructure, which has been actively deployed by over 100 customers for over seven years. Cadence is offering its production-proven solutions in pre-configured, ready-to-go design environments. In addition to these packages, customers can get customized solutions tailored to meet their individual needs.