Xcelium and Cavium: What’s the Deal?

So—you may have heard that Xcelium Parallel Simulator is available on Arm servers now. While that’s all well and good, why is it such a big deal? Well, Cadence gathered up Ziv Binyamini, Gopal Hegde, and Ann Keffer to answer just that question in a video:

What does it mean that Xcelium is now available on Cavium’s Thunder X2 servers? Well, the Thunder X2 brings a lot of advantages to the table over other servers—a higher core count, more memory capacity, integrated input and output, and more memory bandwidth, among others. All of these things are very important for data center managers—and it gives them a very good reason to consider Xcelium over other alternatives.

Xcelium is the leading logic-compiler simulator in the industry, using unique single-core and multicore improvements to be optimized for long-latency workloads. This makes it especially well-suited for ARM-based servers. Xcelium’s new availability there gives hardware and cloud vendors a great new choice for their logic simulation needs.

With all the computing-intensive work going on in the EDA industry, customers can now make choices based on what’s most important to their needs, not just what’s available. Whether you need sheer performance, power efficiency, or a form factor that suits your needs, Xcelium on Thunder X2 gets you there.