Cadence to Distribute Neolinear's Entire Product Line Throughout Asia.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2003 Complementary Technologies, Including NeoCircuit, Dramatically Improve Productivity of the Cadence Custom IC Design Solution In response to growing acceptance of the NeoCircuit product line for automatic sizing of custom ICs, Neolinear today announced a distribution agreement with Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , Inc. ("Cadence") (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. ) for representation throughout Asia including China, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , India, Australia and ASEAN ASEAN: see Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ASEAN in full Association of Southeast Asian Nations International organization established by the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand in . Effective immediately, Cadence will sell and support all Neolinear products throughout Asia, including NeoCircuit, NeoCircuit-RF and NeoIP. Since March 2001, Cadence has distributed NeoCell for automatic analog IC place and route worldwide. "Asia's high growth consumer electronics and communications industries underscore the importance of rapid analog/mixed signal chip design. This is one of the top market opportunities in Asia," said Matthew Chan, President, Asia Pacific for Cadence. "Cadence is the leading EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. vendor in Asia. The combination of Neolinear's circuit sizing products with the comprehensive distribution and customer support channel from Cadence, enable our customers to increase productivity, lower design cost and shorten time-to-market." "For the past eighteen months, Neolinear has worked closely with customers in Japan with impressive results. Seven of the top ten Japanese semiconductor leaders have already started adoption of NeoCircuit and NeoCircuit-RF," said Anthony Gadient, Neolinear's VP-Far East operations. "Given the Cadence custom market share dominance and extensive Asian distribution network, we expect Neolinear's technologies to become de-facto standards throughout the Far East." About Neolinear Neolinear develops software for custom IC design. NeoCircuit and NeoCircuit-RF automatically size analog, custom digital and RF circuits utilizing the customer's simulation environment. NeoCell automatically places and routes analog cells. NeoIP is a library of analog cells fully constrained for use in the NeoCircuit and NeoCell design environment. In combination, Neolinear's solution provides an order of magnitude A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. increase in design productivity. NeoCircuit, NeoCircuit-RF and NeoIP are available from Neolinear and distributors. NeoCell is sold exclusively through Cadence Design Systems (NYSE: CDN - news). The products integrate seamlessly into customers' existing process flows and are technology and methodology independent, thereby resolving the challenge of custom IP re-use and technology migration. Neolinear's corporate headquarters are at 583 Epsilon Drive, Pittsburgh, Penn., 15238. Visit Neolinear at www.neolinear.com. About Cadence Cadence is the world's largest supplier of electronic design technologies and services. Leading computer, networking, wireless, and consumer electronics companies use the company's solutions to design electronic systems and semiconductors down to nanometer scale. 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 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., 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 and its products and services is available at www.cadence.com. Neolinear, NeoCircuit, NeoCell and Accelerating Mixed-Signal Design are registered trademarks and NeoCircuit-RF and NeoIP are trademarks of Neolinear. All other product and company names are trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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