Cadence Announces Support for Industry-Standard OpenAccess 2.2 Database; OpenAccess 2.2 Enables a Single Database Solution Across All Electronic Design Domains
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 8, 2005—
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN) (Nasdaq:CDN)
today announced support of the industry-standard OpenAccess 2.2 as a
unified database for its IC implementation platforms and
design-for-manufacturing (DFM) solutions. Building on its current
support for OpenAccess 2.0, Cadence's adoption of OpenAccess 2.2 will
further improve the efficiency of design-data exchange and enhance
customers' ability to tightly integrate internal applications with
Cadence products into a seamless flow.
The Cadence platforms and products for which OpenAccess 2.2
support will be offered include the Encounter(R) digital IC design and
the Virtuoso(R) custom design platforms, along with DFM and Allegro
Package Designer for IC package design products. The OA 2.2 supported
software releases for these platforms and products are available now
and Cadence is working with select customers to support their
adoption.
"The Cadence Virtuoso platform is our preferred environment for
SoC chip integration and finishing of mixed-signal designs," said
Philippe Magarshack, group vice president of FTM -- Central CAD &
Design Solutions at STMicroelectronics. "We've been very impressed
with the ease of data exchange enabled through support of OpenAccess
by both the Virtuoso and the Encounter platforms used in our
mixed-signal design flow, and we intend to deploy the OpenAccess-based
chip-integration flow for our 65-nanometer process designs going into
tapeout later this year."
"OpenAccess is our database infrastructure of choice," said Jim
Miller Jr., senior vice president of development at Cadence. "Going
forward, all new IC Implementation product developments will leverage
OpenAccess, specifically our Virtuoso custom design platform, where we
are leveraging the expanded data model to build new features and
capabilities on top of OA."
"Cadence, as the founding member of the OpenAccess Coalition and
the original developer and contributor of the technology, is fully
committed to open collaboration," said Jan Willis, senior vice
president of Industry Alliances at Cadence. "OpenAccess continues to
be the only viable database choice to support mixed-signal chips or
silicon-package co-design in one database. Our continued investment in
the OpenAccess Coalition, the OpenAccess technology and its subsequent
adoption and support within our design platforms and product lines is
our way of delivering on our commitment to customers' success and
improved interoperability."
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, printed-circuit boards and systems used in 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.
About OpenAccess Initiative
The OpenAccess Coalition is a community-driven initiative formed
to enable the creation of tightly integrated flows involving
best-in-class commercial and proprietary tools and intellectual
property (IP), necessary to support design of today's complex chips.
This is done through an open standard data access interface (API) and
reference database implementation supporting that API. The OpenAccess
Coalition operates under the governance and bylaws of Silicon
Integration Initiative (Si2), a non-for-profit standards organization.
Cadence and the Cadence logo are registered trademarks, and
Virtuoso, Encounter and Allegro are trademarks of Cadence Design
Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Contact:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Michael Fournell, 415-428-5135
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