The Cadence ChipStack AI Super Agent claims to provide up to 10X productivity improvements for coding designs and testbenches, creating test plans, orchestrating regression testing, debugging and automatically fixing issues.
“ChipStack represents a major leap in our design-for-AI and AI-for-design strategy, applying agentic AI directly to our customers’ front-end flows to tackle the growing complexity and scale of modern chips,” said Anirudh Devgan, president and CEO, Cadence. “By leveraging intelligent agents that autonomously call our underlying tools, we are enabling dramatic productivity gains for our customers in critical design and verification tasks while freeing scarce engineering talent to focus on innovation.”
Cadence bought ChipStack last November. The agentic AI approach orchestrates multiple virtual engineers, all using Cadence’s foundational EDA tools. The technology integrates agentic AI with proven Cadence optimization AI and AI assistant solutions, which have been used in over 1,000 tapeouts to date, including the Verisiun Verification Platform and Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer, as well as Cadence’s JedAI data and AI platform.
The ChipStack AI Super Agent flexibly supports cloud-based and on-premises frontier models, including open NVIDIA Nemotron models that can be customized with NVIDIA NeMo and cloud-hosted models such as OpenAI GPT, to improve designer productivity. This continues the fulfillment of the vision of a true “silicon agent,” spanning the many disciplines and workflows needed to deliver the next generation of intelligent devices.
The Cadence ChipStack AI Super Agent is in early deployment with several of the world’s top chip design and system companies, including Altera, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Tenstorrent, among others.
The programme is available now in early access.
