Cadence Design Systems (CDNS)

Overall impact
A (82)

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Cadence Design Systems is a leader for overall positive impact. With an 'A' rating of 82.2 for overall impact (95th percentile compared to all companies), Cadence Design Systems ranks 6th out of 137 industry peers, behind Mimecast, Dassault Systemes, TietoEVRY Oyj and 2 others, and ahead of Eplus, Audioeye, Aware, Inc. and 128 others. On top material causes for Cadence Design Systems's industry (Software & Services), Cadence Design Systems performs well in Accountable Institutions (95.9 score), Racial Justice and Civil Rights (88.3), Reduced Waste (95.1) and 8 other causes where it received an 'A' score. Cadence Design Systems did not receive a 'D' or 'F' rating on any cause.
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Company
Founded
1988
Employees
15,445
Sector
Information Technology
Industry
Software
Sub-industry
Application Software
SASB industry
Software & IT Services
Headquarters
Ca, United States
Share classes
CDNS
Mission
To provide the expertise and tools, IP, and hardware required for the entire electronics design chain, from chip design to chip packaging to boards and to systems.
Description
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. provides software, hardware, and other services worldwide. The company offers functional verification services, such as Jasper, a formal verification platform; Xcelium, a parallel logic simulation platform; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification. It also provides digital IC design and sign-off products, including Genus synthesis and Joules RTL power solutions, as well as Modus DFT software solution to reduce systems-on-chip design-for-test time. Additionally, it offers physical implementation tools, such as place and route, optimization, and performing sign-off checks for manufacturing; and Innovus implementation system, a digital IC design and sign-off solution. In addition, the company offers custom IC design and simulation, such as Virtuoso Studio, a solution platform for custom, analog, mixed-signal, photonics, and RF semiconductors. It also provides system design and analysis products, a Multiphysics platform that helps in design and simulate electronics and entire systems in electromagnetic, thermal, structure, computational fluid dynamics, molecular, PCB and packaging, mechanical, and structural analysis. Further, it provides semiconductor IP products for design architectures; functional verification; digital IC design and sign-off; EDA products that address the design and verification for semiconductor chips and manufacturing process technologies; and verification IP with memory models to emulate and model the expected behavior and interaction of standard industry system interface protocols. Additionally, it offers services related to methodology, education, and hosted design solutions, as well as technical support and maintenance services. It serves consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, mobile, automotive, aerospace and defense, industrial, and life science industries. Cadence Design Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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