Case Study: Cavium achieves 4X faster timing closure with Cadence Allegro TimingVision

Cavium speeds timing closure 4x with Cadence

Cadence Design Systems provided the Allegro TimingVision environment to Cavium, a developer of integrated semiconductor processors. Cavium's PCB design team faced increasing schedule pressures with their complex, high-speed evaluation boards. Their manual process for timing closure on critical interfaces like DDRx was very time-consuming, taking 8 to 12 weeks per design, while the need to support more chip designs was growing.

By implementing Cadence's solution, which integrated directly into their existing Allegro PCB Designer environment, Cavium saw transformative results. The visual feedback and automated analysis of Allegro TimingVision enabled 4X faster timing closure, reducing a typical four-week manual routing task to just four days. This dramatic efficiency gain allowed Cavium to handle a larger volume of board designs with their existing staff and perform faster "what-if" analyses for their customers.

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