Cadence Announces Installations of Palladium Verification Systems
Texas Instruments Selects Palladium Via the QuickCycles EX Program to Provide Worldwide Access to High-Performance Verification Technology
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 6, 2002--
Cadence Design System's, Inc. (NYSE:CDN - News) Quickturn(TM) group
today announced that Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has deployed
Palladium(TM) design verification systems through the QuickCycles
EXtended (EX) Access program.
QuickCycles EX extends the original QuickCycles remote access
model by giving customers the choice of either remote access to the
latest Cadence®technologies, with equipment installed at a nearby
Cadence facility, or on-site access, with equipment installed directly
at the customer's facility. The enhanced program also allows customers
to add capacity in peak times and reduce capacity between projects.
The Palladium system offers high-performance
simulation-acceleration and in-circuit emulation for complex nanometer
chips and systems. TI plans to use Palladium on various projects
around the world for verification of its digital signal processors
(DSPs), wireless, broadband, and Internet audio products and to
facilitate the development of its customers' DSP-based systems. The
Palladium demonstration at the DSP Developer Conference will show DSP
developers how Palladium can be used early in the design cycle to
concurrently verify hardware and software of a TI DSP-based design.
"As a 10-year Quickturn customer, we know we can rely on Quickturn
to offer us leading verification technologies and services," said
Buddy Williams, manager of EDA contracts at TI. "Investing in
Palladium via the QuickCycles EX program allows members of our
development groups in all corners of the world to benefit from the
high performance and productivity of Palladium."
"Working with TI enables Cadence to provide leading-edge
verification solutions for semiconductor and systems companies across
the spectrum of wireless and networking design markets," said
Christopher Tice, Cadence senior vice president and Quickturn general
manager. "QuickCycles EX provides valued customers with flexible
access to the market's best technology whenever and wherever they need
it, coupled with opportunities for unsurpassed efficiency for their
design teams."
Product Availability and Pricing
Palladium is available today in configurations up to 16 million
gates and 8GB of memory. New Palladium hardware and software
configurations, which extend capacity to 128 million gates and 64GB of
memory, are scheduled for availability in Q3 2002. The new QuickCycles
EX program is available immediately for commitments from three to 36
months with U.S. list prices for base configurations starting at
approximately $15,000 to $18,000 per million gates, per month --
depending on configuration and term of commitment. For more
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 for the
name of a Quickturn representative in your area.
About Quickturn
Quickturn, a Cadence® company, is the leading provider of
high-performance verification solutions and Time-to-Market Engineering
(TtME(TM)) services for the design and verification of complex IC and
electronic systems. Developers of high-performance networking,
wireless, multimedia and computing 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 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. IEEE,
the world's largest technical professional society, honored Cadence
with its 2002 Corporate Innovation Recognition award. With
approximately 5,500 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.
About the TI Developer Conference
The Texas Instruments Developer Conference is the premier signal
processing event of the year, connecting peers and TI engineers for
three days of hands-on learning and innovation. This dynamic event
brings together industry leaders and visionaries, TI customers, third
party developers and educators to provide tool solutions and product
roadmaps to the real world signal processing community. Application
areas cover today's coolest applications, from audio and broadband, to
control, imaging and wireless, through more than 70 hands-on labs,
technical tutorials and round-table discussions. The exhibit hall will
host over 100 cutting-edge demonstrations from leading vendors.
Keynote speakers, including Tom Engibous, TI chairman, president and
CEO; and TI Principal Fellow Gene Frantz will be on hand to discuss
where the industry is heading. For up-to-date conference information,
please go to www.ti.com/sc/rd/devcon8.
Cadence and the Cadence logo are registered trademarks, and
Quickturn, Palladium, and TtME are trademarks of Cadence Design
Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Contact:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Kristin Lietzke, 408/914-6635
kristin@cadence.com
or
Armstrong Kendall, Inc.
Bill Toelke, 503/672-4692
bill@akipr.com
