Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that Cavium, Inc. has deployed the Cadence® Palladium® Z1 enterprise emulation platform to work toward increasing verification throughput for complex designs. After conducting an extensive evaluation, Cavium decided to deploy the Palladium Z1 platform for production use. Cavium had very stringent emulation requirements and chose the Palladium Z1 platform for the following reasons: Versatility: Offers scalability for high-complexity designs and the best use-model versatility for both real-world in-circuit and virtualized emulation, enabling hardware verification and hardware and software co-development; Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Provides optimal capacity density, efficiency of system utilization, dynamic resource allocation, hardware uptime reliability and a broad set of use models, which results in lower TCO; Faster Turnaround Times: Provides predictable verification execution turnaround time for compile-allocation-execution and hardware and software debug using a state-of-the-art, massively parallel computing engine.