Cadence Launches Asia Nanometer Technology Symposium.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Asia Cadence Technology Symposium

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2002

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN), the world's leading supplier of electronic design products and services, today announced the first annual Asia Cadence Technology Symposium (ACTS), August 20-30, 2002 for customers across the Asia-Pacific region. ACTS `02 will identify the coming nanometer design challenges, and present nanometer methodologies and tools specifically designed to address them. In addition to Cadence technologists, speakers at ACTS `02' include distinguished leaders from the electronic design automation (EDA) Industry. The event is being supported by Agilent Technologies, Datang, EDN Asia, EDN China, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Nikkei Business Asia, Ohio, Tektronix, TSMC, UMC, Valor and Xilinx.

Electronic design today is undergoing rapid changes. As leading innovators increasingly implement nanometer-scale designs, design teams are focusing on wire-centric strategies to create massively complex ICs in an acceptable timeframe. Strategies that are not clearly focused on rapid wire creation, optimization and analysis are destined to fail.

With this in mind, ACTS is an excellent opportunity for engineers, designers and managers working in electronic design to learn what's happening in the EDA Industry and at Cadence. Topics will include Cadence's solutions for System-level Design, Wireless Design, Custom IC design, Digital Design, Logic Design, PCB Design, System Verification Design and IC Packaging Design. A highlight of the event will be SoC Encounter, Cadence's Hierarchical RTL-GDSII flow incorporating Silicon Virtual Prototyping. The schedule for ACTS `02' is: August 20 -- Beijing, PRC, August 23 -- Shanghai, PRC, August 27 -- Hsinchu, ROC, August 30 -- Seoul, ROK. More information and online registration is available at http://acts.cadenceasia.com/overview.

"We are highly committed to customer success," said Matthew Chan, President -- Asia Pacific and Corporate Vice President of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. "We're focused on identifying and understanding nanometer design issues, and providing the methodologies and tools that will be essential for customer success moving forward. This is the primary objective of ACTS '02.'"

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. IEEE, the world's largest technical professional society, honored Cadence with its 2002 Corporate Innovation Recognition award. With approximately 5,600 employees and 2001 revenues of approximately $1.4 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 are available at www.cadence.com.

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