Cadence Welcomes VLAB Works

By Cadence

June 19, 2025

Cadence welcomes VLAB Works, a division of Australian Semiconductor Technology Corporation (ASTC) and a renowned leader in virtual platforms. The VLAB Works team provides an ultra-high-performance Virtual Development Environment (VDE) and an extensive catalog of virtual fast models.

The addition of this highly talented team and technology builds upon the existing multi-year Cadence and ASTC partnership, which integrated VLAB with Cadence's Helium Virtual and Hybrid Studio and Xcelium, Palladium, and Protium platforms. It enhances Cadence's System Verification full flow and further strengthens its capabilities in virtual and hybrid pre-silicon software validation.

OEM and Tier 1 software teams require high-performance virtual platforms, and VLAB's industry-leading multi-threaded virtual models will significantly help our joint customers accelerate the development of their next-generation automotive software stack. The VLAB virtual platform natively connects to Palladium and Protium engines, creating a high-performance hybrid emulation environment and combining the performance of virtual models with the cycle-accuracy of emulators. VLAB VDEs are available on desktop, server, or cloud environments, across a range of target-specific embedded architectures, and are already deployed at many leading automotive OEMs and Tier 1 customers.

We're excited to welcome the entire VLAB Works team to Cadence!