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Cadence Acquires Q Design Automation, Inc., Adds Process Migration to Virtuoso Custom Platform
Customers Praise QDA-Migrate's Productivity, Ease of Use
and Hierarchy Preservation
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 5, 2004—
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN) today announced it has
completed the acquisition of Q Design Automation, Inc. (QDA), a
privately held company and the leading provider of innovative
solutions for migrating and optimizing IC layout, a critical
bottleneck in today's designs. The terms of the acquisition, which
adds layout productivity capabilities to the Cadence(R) Virtuoso(R)
custom design platform, were not disclosed.
QDA's migration and creation products include Qtrek-Migrate, which
enables rapid migration of existing designs to new or altered process
technologies, and Qtrek-Create, which provides layout optimization and
design rule enforcement.
"Layout is a significant time sink for customers, so giving them
the ability to reuse hard IP through efficient migration offers a
significant productivity gain," said Lavi Lev, executive vice
president and general manager of the Implementation Division. "QDA's
technologies complement our existing VLE and VXL layout products and
meet our criteria for providing custom designers with world-class,
productivity-enhancing capabilities. Customers we've surveyed rate
Qtrek-Migrate higher than competing solutions in critical productivity
areas of ease of use and hierarchy preservation."
"This move is a win for QDA and for our combined customer base,"
said David Marple, CEO of QDA. "The acquisition gives QDA excellent
access to the custom layout market and ensures even tighter
integration with the Virtuoso platform, which is the platform of
choice for the majority of layout designers."
"Rambus is focused on providing our customers with the most
efficient design layout possible," Samir Patel, vice president, Memory
Interface Division of Rambus. "By deploying Qtrek-Migrate as part of
our design environment for our RDRAM and Yellowstone interfaces, we
have the ability to rapidly create and retarget our designs to new
processes. This allows us to retain the layout hierarchy and p-cell
structure for a better migration path to 90nm process technology."
Cadence expects to begin offering QDA's technology in the first
quarter of 2004 as part of its Virtuoso layout design platform.
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 4,800 employees and 2002 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.
Cadence and the Cadence logo are registered trademarks of Cadence
Design Systems, Inc.
Contact:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Judy Erkanat, 408-894-2302
jerkanat@cadence.com
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