Cadence Acquires Q Design Automation, Inc., Adds Process Migration to Virtuoso Custom Platform.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2004 Customers Praise QDA-Migrate's Productivity, Ease of Use and Hierarchy Preservation Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. ) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Q Design Automation, Inc. (QDA QDA Quantity Discount Agreement QDA Quantitative Data Analysis QDA Quick Defect Analysis QDA Quadratic Discriminate Analysis QDA Qualitative Data Analysis ), a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. 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 VLE Virtual Learning Environment (system for development of online education materials) VLE Vapor Liquid Equilibrium VLE Valeur Limite d'Exposition (French: threshold limit value ceiling) 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 (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. 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 (Rambus DRAM) Pronounced "r-d-ram." A dynamic RAM chip technology from Rambus, Inc., Los Altos, CA (www.rambus.com). Rambus licensed its memory designs to semiconductor companies, which manufactured the chips. 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 New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. 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. |
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