Agere Adds Palladium II After Successful Rollout of TrueAdvantage Converged Access Solutions; Success with Palladium Leads to Continued Collaboration; Agere Cites Faster Time to Market and Reductions in Re-spins
ANAHEIM, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 13, 2005—
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN) (Nasdaq:CDN)
today announced that Agere Systems chose the Palladium(R) II
accelerator/emulator system after using the original Cadence(R)
Palladium system to verify and launch its TrueAdvantage(TM) converged
access solutions. The increased capacity of Palladium II will
significantly reduce the overall functional verification process of
Agere's most complex chip designs.
Agere cited the Palladium II system's high-performing multi-user
capabilities, increased run-time performance, and strong debug
capabilities. The overall result will enable Agere to begin the
verification of the hardware and software up to three months earlier
in the design process -- directly addressing intense time-to-market
pressures.
According to Agere, the entire verification environment for the
TrueAdvantage converged access solutions was up and running within two
weeks. This included third-party IP, the operating system and external
debuggers, and connections to external networking-test sets such as
Bit-gate and Adtech.
"The Palladium II system offers attractive system-level
verification process capabilities with swift compile time," said Craig
Garen, director of telecom engineering with Agere Systems. "We also
found the multi-user approach, enhanced debug capabilities, and proven
external test-equipment interfaces to be extremely valuable."
Agere also leveraged the Palladium system to accelerate
pre-silicon development and prove-in of multiple layers of software,
including microcode, firmware, drivers and application programming
interfaces. The ability to run the chip and software with real-world
data traffic significantly improved the quality of the initial
software release -- allowing delivery of software with early samples
of the chip.
"Agere's initial success with the Palladium system is exactly the
reason they chose to continue to work closely with Cadence on the
Palladium II," said Christopher Tice, senior vice president and
general manager, Verification Acceleration, Cadence. "Cadence is
confident the Palladium II system will generate significant time
savings for Agere, allowing the company to meet or exceed its product
delivery goals."
First Silicon, First Software
An integral component of the Incisive(TM) verification platform,
Palladium II delivers hardware acceleration and in-circuit emulation
in a single system scalable from IP core development to full
system-on-chip designs, helping move customers quickly to first
silicon and first software. The system provides a flexible debug and
advanced verification environment that includes transaction and
assertion-based acceleration solutions. Additionally, with the
Palladium II customers have the ability to leverage Cadence's turnkey
vertical market solutions such as the multi-Ethernet SpeedBridge(R).
Cadence recently introduced Palladium II, which is one-third the
size and twice the speed of the original Palladium system.
About Cadence
Cadence enables global electronic-design innovation and plays an
essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and
electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware,
methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced
semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and
telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. Cadence reported
2004 revenues of approximately $1.2 billion, and has approximately
4,700 employees. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.,
with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the
world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about
the company, its products, and services is available at
www.cadence.com.
Cadence, the Cadence logo, and Palladium are registered trademarks
of Cadence Design Systems in the United States and other countries.
Incisive and SpeedBridge are trademarks of Cadence Design Systems. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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