Cadence Supports New Berkeley Wireless Research Center; EDA Leader Provides Over $100 million in Software and $450,000 in Research Funding.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 1999--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CDN), the world's largest provider of electronic design software and services, today announced the donation of leading-edge software valued over $100 million to the new Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC). In addition to providing its advanced chip and system design software, Cadence is providing $450,000 over a three-year period as funding for the BWRC's research on the present and future capabilities of implementing single-chip wireless systems in advanced CMOS technology.

Cadence is one of seven founding members of the center, along with Ericsson Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Intel Corporation, Lucent Technologies, STMicroelectronics, and Texas Instruments.

According to Patrick Scaglia, vice president of Research at Cadence, the BWRC is poised to make a difference in the future of wireless technology with its innovative model for industry-academia collaboration and groundbreaking initiatives in interdisciplinary research. "We are proud to be a founding industrial member of this important and far-reaching effort. The BWRC is a very unique environment where university scientists and researchers from some of the most influential companies in the wireless space are given an opportunity to work side by side," Scaglia said.

The BWRC is the brainchild of UC Berkeley professors Robert Brodersen and Jan Rabaey.

"Cadence's leading-edge software and methodologies are a critical contribution to our research infrastructure," said Prof. Brodersen. "Having access to the latest Cadence software ensures that our research will be able to maintain the leading-edge focus that we need."

UC Berkeley professors lending their expertise to this project are Paul Gray, Dean of the College of Engineering; Randy Katz, chairman of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department; Robert Meyer; Davis Tse; and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, a co-founder of Cadence.

"You are going to see this type of wireless technology everywhere in the future -- at the micro-level in your car, your home, your work environment, and on a much larger scale such as Universal Radio systems, which will affect the way the world communicates," said Prof. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "This is a very exciting time to be involved in wireless research."

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