Cadence Design Systems: Powering semiconductors, behind the scenes

Globally, Cadence has about 11,000 employees, one-third of whom are in India. Its second largest R&D centre is also in Noida

Ever wondered how a small chip sitting in our phones makes the hardware so intelligent? Or how cars that have hundreds of chips are designed, especially when the chip size is getting smaller, but its complexity is only increasing?

San Jose-headquartered Cadence Design Systems is one such firm that provides the tools for semiconductor companies to design and build chips. In other words, Cadence is what powers the chips that are used by us in our everyday lives.    

“Virtually every chip which is made uses some form of our solutions…we have an end-to-end solution for doing design verification chips,