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Quickturn Extends `QuickStart' Program to Provide Upgrade Path for Emulation Customers
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2001--Quickturn, a
Cadence (NYSE:CDN) company, today announced it is extending its
QuickStart program to customers using emulation systems manufactured
by other providers, by offering a direct upgrade path to
Quickturn(TM)'s top-selling MercuryPlus emulation system.
The emulation upgrade offer is designed to introduce these
potential customers to Quickturn's complete package of verification
products and services. Through the QuickStart program, current
emulation users can trade their products for credit toward the
purchase of a MercuryPlus system. The upgrade offer includes the full
range of benefits that comprise the QuickStart program, which provides
a complete package of consulting assistance for first-time users of
Quickturn systems. This emulation upgrade is offered through September
30.
``We're pleased to provide all emulation users with a flexible
upgrade path to Quickturn's high performance products, with the added
benefit of a known and secure technology path for the future,'' said
Jeff Jordan, Quickturn's vice president of worldwide sales. ``This
innovative offer makes it easy for all new Quickturn users to take
advantage of the power of Quickturn emulation systems and our vertical
markets solutions to quickly verify their designs.''
The Advantages of Quickturn's MercuryPlus
The MercuryPlus emulation system is designed to increase
productivity by delivering the verification capabilities most
important to today's design teams: fast design compilation, high
debugging productivity, and high capacity. The centerpiece of the
MercuryPlus system is a technology based on custom field programmable
gate arrays (FPGAs) optimized for emulation. The result is higher
performance and capacity compared with systems based on commercial
FPGAs. This unique architecture allows Quickturn to deliver extremely
fast and predictable compilation without the farm of workstations or
PCs normally required by off-the-shelf FPGA-based emulators. With the
custom FPGAs in MercuryPlus, million-gate designs can frequently be
compiled in less than an hour. ``We want to emphasize to all our
potential customers that they can easily gain access to the best
verification technology on the market via this program,'' Jordan said.
Price and Availability
For information on product pricing and availability, contact
Quickturn in North America at 408/914-6000. For pricing and
availability outside of North America, visit
www.quickturn.com/about/location.htm.
About Quickturn
Quickturn, a Cadence® company, is the leading provider of
high-performance verification solutions and Time-to-Market Engineering
(TtME®) services for the design and verification of complex IC and
electronic systems. Developers of high-performance computing,
multimedia, graphics, and communications systems use Quickturn
products and services. For more information, visit the Quickturn Web
site at www.quickturn.com, call 408/914-6000, or send email to
info@quickturn.com.
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. With approximately 5,700
employees and 2000 revenues of approximately $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 is available at
www.cadence.com.
Note to Editors: Cadence and the Cadence logo are registered
trademarks and Quickturn, MercuryPlus, and TtME are trademarks of
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Contact:
Quickturn, A Cadence Company
Simon Braffman, 408/914-6099
simonb@quickturn.com
or
Armstrong Kendall, Inc.
Bill Toelke, 503/672-4692
bill@akipr.com
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