Cadence SP&R Technology Selected by Sun Microsystems for Complex ASICs
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2002--Cadence Design
Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN - news) today announced that its SP&R
(synthesis/place-and-route) design technology was selected by Sun
Microsystems® Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW - news) for use in the development of some
of its largest, most complex application specific integrated circuits
(ASICs).
John Brennan, vice president, hardware engineering for the
enterprise system products group, at Sun Microsystems said, "We
evaluated Cadence® SP&R on several complex ASIC designs and found
that its integration of synthesis, placement, and global routing gave
better results than our previous design flow. The tool provides an
appropriate set of industry standard input and output files for
handoffs with all of our ASIC vendors for this project. This physical
synthesis tool should provide faster and more predictable timing
closure and layout flows."
With Cadence Physically Knowledgeable Synthesis (PKS) and Silicon
Ensemble®-PKS (SE-PKS) optimization place-and-route technologies,
Sun Microsystems gets a design flow that supports a flat capacity of
up to three million gates. The concurrent optimization engines in
Cadence SP&R technology will allow Sun to optimize a design's logic,
placement, and global routing, for improved overall tradeoffs, helping
to ensure high quality results.
"We are pleased that Sun Microsystems has chosen Cadence SP&R
technology to meet their design needs," said Eric Filseth, vice
president of SP&R marketing at Cadence. "Sun Microsystems' selection
of Cadence SP&R reflects the tremendous market momentum for our
integrated, front-to-back IC design solution."
About Cadence
Cadence is the largest supplier of electronic design technologies,
methodology services, and design services. Cadence solutions are 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 5,600 employees and 2001 revenues of approximately $1.4
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 are
available at www.cadence.com.
Cadence, the Cadence logo, and Silicon Ensemble are registered
trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are
the property of their respective owners.
Sun, Sun Microsystems and the Sun logo are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States
and other countries.
Contact:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Parvesh Bal-Sandhu, 408/894-2512
parvesh@cadence.com
or
Armstrong Kendall, Inc.
Matt McGinnis, 503/672-4689
matt@akipr.com
