Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) unveiled a virtual AI agent called ChipStack AI Super Agent to help companies such as Nvidia accelerate the process of designing computer chips.
Cadence said ChipStack AI Super Agent is the world’s first agentic workflow for automating chip design and verification. The AI agent autonomously creates and verifies designs from specifications and descriptions, according to the company.
ChipStack AI provides up to 10 times productivity improvements for coding designs and testbenches, creating test plans, orchestrating regression testing, debugging, and automatically fixing issues, the company added.
Cadence noted that the AI agent is in early deployment with several companies, including Altera, Nvidia (NVDA), Qualcomm (QCOM), and Tenstorrent, among others.
“Early results indicate strong, encouraging performance enhancements, and we look forward to realizing the productivity gains,” said Paul Penzes, vice president of engineering at Qualcomm.
The company noted that ChipStack AI 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.
Cadence added that ChipStack is available now in early access.