Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced the signing of the first EDA Technology Access Agreement with ARM Holdings plc that includes access to the ARM v8-A 64-bit architecture in the ARM Cortex-A50 processor series. This agreement also provides access to ARMv7 32-bit processor technology, ARM Mali GPUs, System IP and ARM Artisan libraries.
The ARMv8-A architecture, with its 64-bit support, enables ARM processors to become more broadly deployed in server and desktop applications as well as the migration of 64-bit operating systems to mobile applications.
“We are dedicated to empowering developers, designers and engineers to innovate around ARM technology and ensuring a fast, reliable route to market,” said Pete Hutton, executive vice president and president of product groups, ARM.
“The co-optimized tools, IP and physical libraries resulting from this agreement will accelerate the deployment of ARM’s most advanced technologies. We expect that this will be a huge boost to developers of mobile devices, servers and the exploding market for Internet of Things.”
“Cadence becoming the first EDA partner to access ARMv8-A deepens our collaborative customer enablement, flow optimizations and development and deployment of ARM processor IP centric automation technologies” said Charlie Huang, senior vice president, Worldwide Field Operations and System & Verification Group at Cadence.
“Jointly we can provide better system design enablement, meeting our mutual customers’ time-to-market needs for power-efficient 64-bit market-leading products.”
