Cadence Announces Opening Keynote Speakers at First CDNLive! User Conference in Silicon Valley; Bernard Meyerson of IBM and Mark Edelstone of Morgan Stanley to Address 3-Day Technical Conference
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 28, 2005—
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN) (Nasdaq:CDN)
announced today keynote speakers for the inaugural North American
CDNLive! user conference in Silicon Valley. Bernard Meyerson, vice
president and chief technologist, Systems & Technology Group, IBM, and
Mark Edelstone, managing director and global leader for Semiconductor
Research, Morgan Stanley, will give separate keynote presentations at
the opening session Sept. 12.
CDNLive!, a series of annual internationally hosted user
conferences, is part of the Cadence Designer Network, a user community
established earlier this year. The CDNLive! Silicon Valley technical
conference is scheduled for Sept. 12-14 in Santa Clara, Calif., and
registration for the event is now open at
http://www.cadence.com/cdnlive/na/registration.aspx.
"We've worked hard to ensure this conference offers value for
designers throughout our industry, regardless of their specific
discipline," said Mike Catrambone of UTStarcom, chairman of the
Cadence Designer Network. "I anticipate that this first CDNLive!
Silicon Valley event will be a tremendous success and will be very
well received by the hundreds of Cadence customers we expect to
attend."
Each day of the conference will feature six parallel tracks of
technical presentations and discussions that address the broad range
of design challenges and issues facing today's engineers. Other events
scheduled during the three-day conference include a "Cadence
Technology Night," where Cadence will showcase its latest technology
and design flows; a "Meet the Technologists" event, at which the
company's developers and senior technologists will be available to
interact with customers; an industry-wide "Designer Expo," bringing to
one place 48 companies that team with Cadence to address the
electronics design chain; and multiple technical product and
methodology tutorials.
Cadence President and CEO Mike Fister will address attendees at
the opening of the conference. Fister and other top executives also
will hold a news conference Sept. 12.
"Our goal with the Cadence Designer Network and CDNLive! is to
create a customer-driven user community and annual conferences that
deliver great value to the myriad of designers who depend on our
technology to do their jobs," said Ajay Malhotra, senior vice
president of Marketing. "This conference will provide a forum for our
customers to share their thoughts and ideas with each other and with
Cadence technologists, to the benefit of everyone."
More information on the conference, including the complete
schedule, is available at www.cadence.com/cdnlive.
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
5,000 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.
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Dean Solov, 408-914-6077
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