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Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems is a multinational electronic design automation (EDA) software and hardware company. Cadence provides tools for designing integrated circuits, systems on chips, printed circuit boards, and pharmaceutical drugs, with a portfolio that includes Virtuoso, Spectre, Genus, Innovus, JasperGold, Xcelium, Palladium, Allegro, OrCAD, and AI tools such as Cerebrus and ChipGPT.

Cadence Design Systems publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Electronic Design Automation, EDA, Semiconductors, Chip Design, and IC Design.

Cadence Design Systems’ developer surface includes support and 10 more developer resources.

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23.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
1 APIs
Electronic Design AutomationEDASemiconductorsChip DesignIC DesignPCB DesignSoftwareCompany

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 23.0/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems delivers software and IP for electronic design automation, including IC and PCB design, verification, emulation, and system analysis. No public developer ...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cadence Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cadence Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Cadence Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cadence Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 Community
Community

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService

Company 5

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Investor Relations
Investor Relations
 Newsroom
Newsroom
 Careers
Careers

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Products
Products

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: cadence
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cadence/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Cadence Design Systems
tags:
- Electronic Design Automation
- EDA
- Semiconductors
- Chip Design
- IC Design
- PCB Design
- Software
- Company
type: Index
kind: company
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cadence.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-04-23'
position: Producer
description: Cadence Design Systems is a multinational electronic design automation (EDA) software and hardware company. Cadence
  provides tools for designing integrated circuits, systems on chips, printed circuit boards, and pharmaceutical drugs, with
  a portfolio that includes Virtuoso, Spectre, Genus, Innovus, JasperGold, Xcelium, Palladium, Allegro, OrCAD, and AI tools
  such as Cerebrus and ChipGPT.
apis:
- aid: cadence:cadence-design-systems
  name: Cadence Design Systems
  tags:
  - EDA
  - Semiconductors
  - Chip Design
  humanURL: https://www.cadence.com
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.cadence.com
  - type: Products
    url: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools.html
  - type: Support
    url: https://support.cadence.com
  - type: Community
    url: https://community.cadence.com
  - type: Investor Relations
    url: https://investor.cadence.com
  - type: Newsroom
    url: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/company/newsroom.html
  - type: Careers
    url: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/company/careers.html
  description: Cadence Design Systems delivers software and IP for electronic design automation, including IC and PCB design,
    verification, emulation, and system analysis. No public developer API is currently documented; products, support, community,
    investor, newsroom, and careers properties are published online.
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cadence-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cadence-design-systems
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cadence.com
- type: Products
  url: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools.html
- type: Support
  url: https://support.cadence.com
- type: Community
  url: https://community.cadence.com
- type: Investor Relations
  url: https://investor.cadence.com
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/company/newsroom.html
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/company/careers.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/privacy-policy.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/terms-of-use.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.19'