Nvidia is putting its Vera CPUs to work alongside AI agents to speed up chip design
Nvidia Corp. says it’s now running the chip design software its engineers are using to design the next generation of its graphics processing units, on its own silicon. It’s partnering with Cadence Systems Inc. and Synopsys Inc., the two biggest providers of electronic design automation or EDS software, which are now optimizing their platforms to run on Nvidia’s Vera central processing units to accelerate chip design workloads.
The chipmaker said that Cadence’s Jasper, a formal verification platform, and Synopsys VCS, a logical simulation tool that’s used to validate chip designs before fabrication, improved their performance by 1.5-times when running on Vera central processing units.
The announcement came as Nvidia revealed that it’s also integrating its PhysicsNeMo physics-AI libraries and a set of GPU math libraries into the Nvidia Agent Toolkit, as part of a push to increase the role of autonomous artificial intelligence agents in the chipmaking process. AI agents can now call accelerated solvers in the same way as they use any other third-party tool, Nvidia said at the 2026 Design Automation Conference in Long Beach, California, today.
