Cadence Speeds Design-to-Market for PolarFab Customers; Latest Process Design Kit Meets Foundry's Need for Manufacturing of BiCMOS.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2002 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. ), the world's leading supplier of electronic design products and services, and PolarFab, a U.S.-based pure-play semiconductor foundry A pure-play semiconductor foundry is a company that does not offer a significant amount of IC products of its own design, but instead focuses on producing ICs for other companies. , today announced final acceptance of the Cadence-developed process design kits (PDKs) for PolarFab's proven ABC/RFBC analog BiCMOS processes. PolarFab's ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. and RFBC process families support chips running in excess of 1.5 GHz and can safely handle 10 V supplies. Ratifying the new PDK PDK Phi Delta Kappa (professional organization for teachers) PDK Portal Development Kit (SAP Enterprise Portal) PDK Peachtree-Dekalb Airport (Atlanta, GA, USA) , mutual Cadence-PolarFab customer Sipex spoke out about its satisfaction with the foundry kit. A high-performance analog chip An analog chip is a set of miniature electronic analog circuits formed on a single piece of semiconductor material. The circuits in analog chips operate with voltage and current varying in a continuous fashion; in contrast, digital chips only use and create voltages manufacturer, Sipex confirmed the importance of using the new PDK in reducing time-to-market for its newest consumer product IC. "With the Cadence-based PDK, we were able to take advantage of the full-featured front-to-back chip design solution," said Bruce Diamond, president and COO of Sipex. "To us, front-to-back means schematics and simulation to layout and physical verification Physical verification A procedure auditors use to ensure that inventory recorded in the book is correct by actually checking out the physical inventory. . The Cadence PDK advantage cut our time-to-production down to less than half the time traditional methods would have taken." "As a provider of foundry services for analog high-performance ICs, it is imperative that we offer leading edge tools to expedite products into the marketplace," said Dennis Gaetano, vice president of sales and marketing at PolarFab. "The Cadence PDK solution provides first-pass foundry success and significantly improves our customers' time-to-product." The advantage of Cadence design tools means PolarFab is able to provide its customers with the appropriate PDK for a specified process. This allows the customer to begin designing immediately. Being inherently coupled to a specific process, PDKs also allow more accurate simulations and post-layout (parasitic extraction) re-simulation. "Cadence offers intelligent PDKs that provide schematic-driven layouts resulting not only in huge savings, but, just as importantly, address the analog/full custom layout bottleneck," said Leif Rosqvist, vice president of services at Cadence. "There is no doubt that when using Cadence tools instead of PC-based design solutions, the customer can realize a significant time savings, and an increase in first pass success." About PolarFab Headquartered in Minnesota, PolarFab is the only US-owned, pure-play semiconductor foundry in the country. The company provides silicon solutions for customer-designed integrated circuits (ICs) through a broad range of bipolar and BiCMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) manufacturing processes. PolarFab's focus on exceptional customer support is provided by a creative, flexible and responsive staff of professionals. The company offers six- and eight-inch wafer processing, as well as testing and failure analysis services for the analog/mixed signal and smart power IC requirements of fabless and fab-lite semiconductor companies. For more information call 1-800-882-3472 or visit the company online at www.polarfab.com 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 (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. , 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 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 are available at www.cadence.com. Note to Editors: Cadence and the Cadence logo are registered trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 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