Cadence Announces Sign-Off Status for Its NC-Verilog Simulator At Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2001--
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN), the world's leading
supplier of electronic design products and services, today announced
that Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has certified the Cadence®
NC-Verilog logic simulation technology as sign-off quality for its
ASIC technologies. As a result, NC-Verilog now provides Mitsubishi
designers with an effective solution to meet Verilog HDL needs for
System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. Mitsubishi and Cadence developed
next-generation accurate timing simulation technology -- called
Enhanced Timing Output -- for NC-Verilog® so that logic simulation
timing accuracy can be applied to the next deep submicron process.
``NC-Verilog is the fastest, most accurate, and most integrated
Verilog HDL simulator on the market,'' said Teruaki Harada, Project
Manager, EDA Application Project Group, System LSI Division,
Semiconductor Group at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. ``This makes it
ideal for accurately verifying large designs in the shortest amount of
time.''
``Mitsubishi's endorsement of NC-Verilog is a real win for our
mutual customers,'' said Rahul Razdan, corporate vice president and
general manager of the Systems and Functional Verification group at
Cadence. ``This support gives our common customers the ability to use
the industry's leading Verilog HDL simulator for all aspects of the
design simulation process when employing Mitsubishi's advanced
technologies. Mitsubishi's backing validates that NC-Verilog is the
ideal choice for customers using leading-edge technology.''
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 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 and traded on the New York Stock Exchange
under the symbol CDN. More information about the company, its products
and services may be obtained from www.cadence.com.
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Contact:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Valerie Smith, 408/428-5795
vsmith@cadence.com
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