Overview
The Sky’s the Limit: The Impact of AI in the Aerospace Industry
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a game-changer in various industries, and the aerospace sector is no exception. The applications of AI in the aerospace industry are vast and varied. From enhancing navigation and traffic management to improving cabin comfort and customer support, AI is revolutionizing the way we fly. In space flight, AI is helping to design more efficient spacecraft, plan and manage missions, and maintain a safe environment for astronauts. As AI technology continues to advance, its impact on the aerospace industry is set to grow, paving the way for a future where the sky is truly the limit.
Key Benefits
Pushing Boundaries with AI in Aerospace Design
Improved Design Accuracy and Reliability
AI-driven design optimization improves performance and safety through precise failure predictions and fast prototyping.
Improved Aircraft Manufacturing and Design
Using precision robotics in the development process increases productivity and meets the demands of modern aerospace engineering, ensuring high-quality, innovative aircraft.
Increased Reliability in Aerodynamics
Predictive analysis in aerodynamics boosts efficiency and precision, minimizing defects for safer, more reliable aircraft.
Optimized Power Efficiency
Developing energy-efficient systems without sacrificing performance is key to sustainable, efficient aerospace operations.
Advanced Fault Detection and Correction
Early detection and correction of system faults enhance aerospace safety and reliability by preempting operational issues.
Navigation and Traffic Management
Advancements in autopilot systems and traffic control improve flight management, reducing delays and risks in modern air traffic.
Offerings
Cadence Technology: Pioneering Solutions for Next-Gen Aerospace and Space Exploration
Cadence offers a robust suite of AI solutions for IP, chip, package, and system design of aerospace applications and space flight. Together, these solutions empower aerospace companies to develop innovative, safe, and reliable systems for the future of air travel and space exploration.
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Cadence offers multiple computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools for aerodynamics, turbomachinery, and aeroacoustic design in aircraft and spacecraft. The Cadence Millennium Enterprise Multiphysics Platform is the industry’s first CFD supercomputing platform that combines best-in-class CFD solvers such as the Cadence Fidelity LES solver for large eddy simulation, dedicated graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware, and AI technologies that provides precise simulations for airflow and thermal management.
Thermal and Power Management
Cadence offers multiple tools for thermal analysis and power management. Cadence Celsius Studio is the industry’s first complete AI-enabled thermal platform for electronic systems that converges electrothermal co-simulation, electronics cooling, and thermal stress into a single cohesive offering. This unified platform empowers designers to discover thermal integrity issues early in the design process and efficiently leverage generative AI optimization to uncover ideal thermal designs.
Cadence Voltus InsightAI seamlessly integrates generative AI technology to predict IR drop issues early in the design process and automatically improve the design, enabling fast, automated IR drop closure and improved productivity and enabling better power, performance, and area (PPA). It seamlessly integrates with the Cadence digital full flow to enable timing and design rule checking (DRC)-aware fixes to the design.
Hardware/Software Verification
Enhancing aerospace application reliability, Cadence tools utilize generative AI for optimized system debug and verification. The Cadence Verisium AI-Driven Verification Platform optimizes verification workloads, boosts coverage, and accelerates root cause analysis of bugs.
Cadence emulation and prototyping systems help verify IP/SoC designs, system validation, hardware and software testing, and early software development. The Cadence Dynamic Duo hardware platforms and Cadence Helium Virtual Platform offer robust environments for system verification, reducing time-to-market and ensuring high-quality designs.
SoC Design
Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer is a machine learning-based chip design tool that optimizes power, performance, and area (PPA). It helps customers meet the demanding PPA and productivity requirements for the aerospace market. This AI-driven tool integrates seamlessly with the standard production flow, including various tools and IP blocks, and can be customized to meet the preferences of multiple teams, helping them to tape out quickly and get to market faster.
AI IP Platform
Cadence offers silicon-proven IP cores and pre-verified IP blocks designed to meet rigorous aerospace requirements. The Cadence AI IP platform empowers SoC developers to design and deliver optimal solutions for a wide range of applications and markets, with IP options including Neo NPUs, Tensilica AI Base, and AI Boost to meet the PPA demands behind the NeuroWeave SDK common software platform. These deliver the scalable and energy-efficient on-device-to-edge AI processing that is key to today’s increasingly ubiquitous AI/ML SoCs, meeting the market needs for a wide range of aerospace applications.
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See What Customers Have to Say About Cadence Tools
“Cadence Millennium M1 with Fidelity LES Solver represents the state-of-the-art in CFD, leveraging recent innovations in numerical methods, physical modeling, and GPU computing. This mixture of accuracy, speed, and scale is already impacting the design of aerospace, automotive, and energy systems.”
Professor Parviz Moin, Stanford University and Founding Director of the Center for Turbulence Research
"Celsius Studio’s seamless integration with AWR Microwave Office IC design platform through BAE Systems’ custom GaN PDK is enabling fast and accurate thermal analysis throughout the MMIC design cycle, leading to increased first-pass design success and significantly improved RF and thermal power amplifier performance."
Michael Litchfield, BAE Systems
“We're really excited to be working with the Cadence team and are thrilled to have them on board in getting Mach 5 to a reality. These vehicles wouldn't happen without these high-fidelity solutions that we're able to get, and it really helps us to have the support of the Cadence team.”
James Shields, Hermeus
“The combination of Cadence Fidelity CFD software and GPU computing has increased our high-fidelity simulation throughput by up to 8X for our subsonic applications. Given the large volume of simulations we run, we expect the Millennium M1 to have a positive impact on our workflow in terms of speedup and accuracy.”
Mathieu Amiraux, Corvid Technologies
“Cadence’s Celsius Studio enables our design team to work with detailed information early in our design cycle so that we can target and resolve thermal problems before the design is fully committed.”
Jeff Cain, Chipletz
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