Cadence, a leading company in AI-powered semiconductor and system design software, has announced a strategic partnership with Google to enhance its ChipStack AI Super-Agent using Gemini on Google Cloud. The goal of this collaboration is to advance agent-based design automation and build a scalable, cloud-native platform for modern chip development and verification.
The ChipStack AI Super-Agent combines intelligent AI reasoning with Cadence’s electronic design automation tools, helping deliver significant productivity gains—up to 10 times faster workflows—in areas such as digital design, testbench creation, verification planning, regression handling, and automated debugging. By integrating AI agents directly with EDA execution, the platform helps engineering teams shorten design cycles, improve efficiency, and speed up the time needed to reach tapeout.
“Our collaboration with Google Cloud represents a major step forward in scaling AI-driven design automation,” said Paul Cunningham, senior vice president and general manager at Cadence. “By integrating the Cadence ChipStack AI Super-Agent with Gemini, we’re advancing the next generation of agentic design—combining the reasoning power of large language models with Cadence’s world-class EDA engines to deliver breakthrough productivity and quality of results for our customers.”
At the core of the ChipStack AI Super-Agent is its innovative Mental Model technology, which enables sophisticated agentic reasoning through Cadence native skills, driving Cadence EDA tools to improve the quality and correctness of large language model (LLM)-generated content. Through its collaboration with Google Cloud, Cadence is tightening the integration between the Gemini-enabled ChipStack AI Super-Agent and Cadence EDA engines, driving significant improvements in both productivity and quality of results.
This collaboration also leverages Google Cloud’s secure, elastic compute infrastructure to deliver the compute needed for Gemini’s LLM reasoning, Cadence EDA tools and the ChipStack AI Super Agent. This enables a “click-to-deploy” end-to-end solution for agent-powered chip design and verification.
The ChipStack AI Super-Agent is available now on the Google Cloud Marketplace.
