At its CadenceLIVE event in Santa Clara, California, perennial leader in the EDA and computational software markets, Cadence Design Systems, launched its latest systems for chip designers for hardware debugging and advanced prototyping, the Palladium Z3 and Protium X3. Though the systems are fundamentally different, each offers significantly increased capacity and higher performance versus its predecessors, to accelerate the development of today’s larger and more complex chips.