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SMICSMIC Brings Product Design onto Cadence
SMIC, an information technology organization in China, uses Cerebrus from Cadence to support engineering design for design engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Product design can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
| Capability | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for product design |
| Capability | Engineering design stays visible to adjacent teams through Cerebrus |
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Inside SMIC, engineering design used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in information technology groups working out of China. Design engineers needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
SMIC uses Cerebrus from Cadence as the working layer for product design. Cadence Design Systems supplies computational software for integrated circuit, system, and PCB design used by electronics companies. The practical change is simple: engineering design has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What SMIC gets from Cadence is a durable place to run engineering design and a way for design engineers to see the same product design at the same time.
