Overview
- Cadence and NVIDIA unveiled the Level‑5 ChipStack AI Super Agent on Monday, June 1, 2026 at Computex, showing an agent that can run end‑to‑end RTL design and verification with minimal human intervention.
- NVIDIA reported the system compresses typical RTL validation loops from about five weeks to under a day, a greater than 40x speedup in the company’s Computex demonstration.
- The agent runs NVIDIA’s Nemotron models inside the OpenShell sandbox while driving Cadence’s Xcelium logic simulation and Jasper formal verification engines to produce results tied to established EDA signoff tools.
- Cadence’s November 2025 acquisition of ChipStack and a February 2026 agent release laid the technical groundwork, and select customers including NVIDIA, Altera, and Qualcomm have already reported earlier productivity gains.
- Cadence and NVIDIA said productization and limited early access are planned for the second half of 2026, a change that could shorten chip development cycles, shift engineers toward higher‑level work, and raise competitive pressure on other EDA vendors.