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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2, 2001--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN), the world's leading supplier of electronic design products and services, and Informative Graphics®, the leading developer of commercial software products for web publishing and collaboration, today announced a distribution and technology agreement to provide a collaboration and visualization tool to the Orcad Capture® community. The tool, a special full-function version of Informative Graphics' MYRIAD® redlining collaboration product, is available for Orcad Capture end-users to download at no cost.

Jointly developed by Informative Graphics and Cadence®, the MYRIAD Capture Viewer streamlines the design process by enabling printed circuit board (PCB) designers, design managers, test and manufacturing engineers, and other end-users to share native schematic documents without having to have access to the Orcad Capture source application.

In addition to the redlining feature, the MYRIAD Capture Viewer includes:

• Side-by-Side Compare
• allows user to see two documents at once
• Changemarks®
• user can systematically review proposed design changes
• when used with the side-by-side feature, user can compare requested changes with actual changes in a new revision
• Document Stack
• offers reviewer an option to view or print all related documents in stack

``Informative Graphics is pleased to be able to offer Cadence customers a collaboration tool that is not only convenient and cost effective for all of the members of the design team but also speeds the design process,'' said Gary Heath, president and CEO of Informative Graphics.

``Users of this tool can realize significant efficiencies because every seat in an operation can provide editorial input without having to have access to source software,'' said Jamie Metcalfe, vice president of marketing, Cadence PCB Systems Division.

Pricing and Availability

The Capture Viewer is free to any Orcad Capture user and is available to download from Cadence at www.pcb.cadence.com. The product is available on Windows NT, Windows 98, and Windows 2000 platforms.

About Orcad Capture

Orcad Capture is an industry-standard schematic entry system that includes schematic and HDL editors.

It is widely used by PCB, FPGA, and analog/mixed-signal designers who develop computer, instrumentation, power supply, electro-medical, military/aerospace, and communication applications.

About Cadence

Cadence is the largest supplier of electronic design automation products, methodology services, and design services used to accelerate and manage the design of semiconductors, computer systems, networking and telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics, and a variety of other electronics-based products. The Cadence PCB Systems Division, a worldwide PCB EDA market leader, addresses the entire range of design needs in the PCB market, with complete module suites available on Windows, Windows NT, and UNIX platforms. With approximately 5,700 employees and 2000 revenues of $1.3 billion, Cadence has sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CDN. More information about the company, its products and services may be obtained at www.cadence.com.

About Informative Graphics

Informative Graphics Corp., based in Phoenix, Ariz., is the leading manufacturer of commercial software products for the information viewing process. The industry-leading MYRIAD product has an install base of over 250,000 seats in more than 2500 engineering and manufacturing companies around the world. The company has been developing software for national and international end-users, OEMs and systems integrators since incorporating in 1990. Informative Graphics maintains a home page on the World Wide Web at www.infograph.com.

Note to Editors: Cadence, the Cadence logo, and Orcad Capture are registered trademarks. Informative Graphics, MYRIAD and Changemarks are registered trademark of Informative Graphics Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.

     Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
     Tyler Magee, 503/968-5049 (PCB Systems Division)
     tmagee@cadence.com
      or
     Informative Graphics Corporation
     Lynda Elley, 602/971-6061 (Vice President)
     lyndae@infograph.com
      or
     Armstrong Kendall, Inc.
     Meg Kenagy, 503/672-4694
     (For Cadence PCB Systems Division)
     meg@akipr.com