At CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2026, Cadence announced an expanded partnership with NVIDIA to deliver accelerated solutions across agentic AI, physics-based simulation and digital twins to unlock new levels of productivity and accelerate next‑generation engineering design flows across semiconductor design, physical AI systems and hyperscale AI factories.
By combining Cadence’s leadership in agentic AI-driven design, electronic design automation(EDA) and system design and analysis(SDA) with NVIDIA CUDA-X, AI physics and Omniverse libraries for industrial digital twin solutions, the two companies are redefining engineering productivity across three critical design domains—accelerating innovation at true agent speed.
“Agentic AI and digital twins are reshaping the entire engineering landscape—from semiconductor design to planetary‑scale AI systems,” said Anirudh Devgan, president and chief executive officer, Cadence.
“Our expanded collaboration with NVIDIA accelerates the convergence of design and physical realization, connecting the Cadence AgentStack, Physical AI Stack, and AI factory digital twins with NVIDIA’s breakthroughs in accelerated computing to deliver unprecedented speed, accuracy and trust in simulation and system development.
“We are at an inflection point in computing—CUDA-accelerated computing and AI are reinventing the engineering process,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
“For the first time, we can innovate in the digital world—exploring, testing, and optimizing ideas at unprecedented speed and scale—by building everything as full-fidelity digital twins first. Together, NVIDIA and Cadence are bringing this vision to life—transforming how engineers design, build and operate the world.”
Cadence and NVIDIA are accelerating Cadence EDA and SDA solutions with NVIDIA CUDA-X, AI-physics, Omniverse libraries and the Cadence Millennium M2000 Supercomputer, powered by NVIDIA AI infrastructure.
As part of this expanded collaboration, Cadence will accelerate its wide range of principled solvers and leverage AI physics models to deliver engineering workflows up to 100X speedup.
Cadence EDA and SDA customers and partners, including Ascendence, Argonne National Laboratory, Honda R&D, Samsung and SK Hynix are already leveraging Cadence solutions accelerated by NVIDIA to bring accelerated products to market faster.
Cadence recently introduced its ChipStack AI Super Agent, which applies agentic AI combined with principled EDA tools to transform semiconductor RTL design and verification.
Early deployments at more than 10 leading customers have already demonstrated up to a 10X productivity boost in their design and verification tasks.
Building on this foundation, Cadence today unveiled AgentStack, a head agent designed to orchestrate all aspects of semiconductor and system design.
AgentStack extends the ChipStack AI Super Agent’s Mental Model and super-agent architecture beyond RTL and verification into physical design, custom/analog design and migration, to system-level design workflows.
AgentStack connects Cadence agents with Cadence EDA platforms that leverage NVIDIA Nemotron and run on NVIDIA accelerated computing for orchestrating long‑running, multi‑agent workflows.
As an early partner, NVIDIA is adopting the AgentStack flow in its semiconductor and system design flows and providing real-world feedback that will help Cadence harden and scale AgentStack for broader industry deployment.
This evolution will mark a significant shift from traditional script‑ and GUI‑driven flows to agent‑driven flows that are capable of reasoning over design hierarchies, relationships and protocols, dramatically compressing iteration cycles from days to hours.
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