Cadence ChipStack agent turns specs into RTL with PPA tuning
Cadence added an RTL Generation Agent to ChipStack that turns specs into RTL and tunes power, performance, and area via natural-language prompts. Early evaluations claimed average 24% area and 18% power cuts versus foundation-model-only code, with early access expected in Q4 2026.
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What happened
Cadence added an RTL Generation Agent to ChipStack that turns specs into RTL and tunes power, performance, and area via natural-language prompts. Early evaluations claimed average 24% area and 18% power cuts versus foundation-model-only code, with early access expected in Q4 2026.
More context
Cadence’s RTL Generation Agent inside ChipStack turns specifications into RTL and tunes power, performance, and area via natural-language prompts. Early evaluations claimed average 24% area and 18% power cuts versus foundation-model-only code, with early access expected in Q4 2026.
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- Engineering.com, Sep 23, 2026
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