InTime Joins Cadence Connections Program

Offers Tight Integration with Cadence Synthesis and Physical Design Flows

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2002--InTime Software(TM) today announced that it has become a member of the Cadence Connections® Program, a third-party software program offered by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN - news).

The membership will allow a tight level of interoperability between Cadence® and InTime electronic design automation (EDA) products. The new relationship between the two companies will ensure that customers of Cadence and InTime will have integrated design flows for the most complex ASIC, ASSP and SoC designs.

InTime Software offers EDA solutions that accelerate the IC design process into synthesis and physical design tools. The InTime product suite enables design teams to manage the design process of the most complex ICs, achieve design closure earlier and get product to market faster. The collaboration with Cadence will enable Cadence and InTime customers to enhance existing flows using Cadence's back-end synthesis and place and route products including Silicon Ensemble(TM), PKS(TM) and the new Cadence SoC Encounter and First Encounter(TM) Ultra.

InTime delivers a hierarchy of floorplanners that manage timing control and capacity on deep submicron circuits of 0.18 micron and below. The company's solutions start at the conceptual architectural level (pre-RTL), pass information to RTL design teams and into their RTL planning system and then the information is leveraged by InTime's gate-level floorplanner. At each stage a physical floorplan is generated that constrains the design at the next level down, making it possible for the most complex designs to fit into the operating range of third party synthesis and P& R (place and route) tools. This approach enables a meaningful and streamlined collaboration among designers addressing design development from concept, to RTL, to gates.

About Cadence Connections Program

Cadence provides members of its Connections Program with access to software and application notes, enabling tight tool interoperability with third-party software. The program permits tool integration in the areas of analog/mixed-signal, integrated circuit, board design, and logic verification. More information about the Connections Program may be obtained at www.connectionsprogram.com.

About InTime

InTime Software develops EDA solutions that use floorplanning techniques to achieve early timing closure for complex ASIC, SoC, and ASSP designs before synthesis and place and route tools are run. The products provide designers insight into timing, area and layout at the pre-RTL, RTL and gate level and improve the design flow into 3rd party synthesis and physical design systems.

InTime is headquartered at 10131 Bubb Road, Cupertino, CA, 95014. The company has sales and support offices in Silicon Valley, Austin and Boston. InTime products are distributed in Japan through Innotech Corp., in Taiwan through Maojet, and in Korea through I&C Technologies. For more information please call 408-565-0111 or visit InTime's website at www.intimesw.com.

Acronyms:
        ASIC   Application Specific Integrated Circuit
        ASSP   Application Specific Standard Product
        EDA    Electronic Design Automation
        IC:    Integrated Circuit
        RTL:   Register Transfer-Level
        SoC    System on chip

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