ClioSoft Gives Cadence Users ``Freedom to Choose'' With Global Design Team Collaboration Software; ClioSoft Announces Support for Cadence Design Environments with SOS viaDFII.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001

ClioSoft, Inc., an early visionary in empowering global design team collaboration, today announced the release of SOS viaDFII for design and data management, global team connectivity and design and methodology re-use among Cadence customers.

ClioSoft's design data management product, SOS, improves a design team's productivity by non-intrusively managing design data and enhancing designer-to-designer and designer-to-manager communication. By using SOS, design team leaders can track progress and tape-out designs with lower overhead and more confidence. Managers can unify multi-site development projects, access design histories, record metrics, and leverage optimized designs and design methodologies enterprise-wide.

"ClioSoft's SOS has supported Cadence users since release in 1998, and we are delighted to take the relationship with Cadence to another level. Cadence is the vendor of choice for thousands of companies worldwide, with 2000 revenues of $1.3 billion. Many of these companies have design teams spread across multiple sites and wide geographies. In addition, many of these users are integrating multi-tool environments with more than 10 different software product vendors. SOS unifies both Cadence and heterogeneous design environments out-of-the-box and with low ownership costs," noted Srinath Anantharaman, president of ClioSoft.

Unparalleled Integration through Cadence GDM 

Designers have been requesting the freedom to choose the powerful yet affordable SOS global engineering data management solution, so ClioSoft partnered with Cadence to integrate its design tool suite from front-end to back-end through the Cadence Design Framework, DFII.

Cadence has licensed ClioSoft to integrate SOS through its proprietary GDM interface, and ClioSoft has developed the SOS viaDFII software based on this support and license. This promotes even tighter integration than previously existed through the Cadence Connection partnership.

SOS has a low cost of ownership, due to the ease of initial deployment and use, the very low support overhead, and attractive price points for both per-copy and multi-site enterprise licensing.

SOS and SOS viaDFII support both Cadence tools and multi-vendor design environments, including tools from Avant!, Innoveda, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys and other EDA vendors.

Steve Remme, Senior Design Engineer at Storage Tek, commented, "We evaluated several options before we selected ClioSoft's SOS. The SOS user interface was the most intuitive, allowed for customization, eliminated several cryptic command line scripts and makes it easier for us to manage our design databases, more than 2000 files, for each of our different card types. ClioSoft's SOS is being used in the same design environment as tools from Mentor, Synopsys and Cadence."

Design Team Freedom and Productivity

Design data management is on the critical path to tape-out. For engineering management, SOS viaDFII provides team collaboration for global and multi-site environments; design methodology streamlining and leverage; IP and design re-use; project visibility, management, tracking and control; and the ability to collect empirical design metrics. All of these benefits lead to better time to market and project predictability.

For design engineering teams, SOS has features such as remote collaboration support and design directory rollbacks; release management; project and revision control; integrated bug tracking; secure design data; and unobtrusive ease of use and administration.

SOS was developed specifically with hardware design teams in mind, since they typically have the largest number of tools and highest complexity of design flow, but it also can be used by software designers, to integrate the project team.

ClioSoft's customers range from semiconductor companies in Silicon Valley to telecommunications companies in Europe. Among the many accounts adopting global design team collaboration with ClioSoft are: Alcatel, Calix, Centillium Communications, Denali, Divio, Lexar Media, Logitech, Lucent technologies, Mitel, NEC, Nortel Networks, Oak Technology, Parthus, Storage Tek, Tenor Networks, Thomson Consumer Electronics and Virata.

Pricing and Availability

SOS viaDFII is available now for Beta, and will be displayed at the ClioSoft booth (no. 641) at the Design Automation Conference 2001, in Las Vegas. SOS core software carries a U.S. list price of $2,500 per seat, with a complete SOS viaDFII solution at $4,500 per seat. Corporate enterprise licensing is available. It supports Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, and Windows. For information on international pricing, please contact the local ClioSoft sales partner.

About ClioSoft

ClioSoft, Inc. is a privately held company empowering global design team collaboration through design data and management tools. Its design data management system, SOS, has been in production use for three years. Today, over 700 licenses are installed at semiconductor and systems houses worldwide. ClioSoft has development offices in Fremont, California and Pune, India, with sales offices in the U.S., U.K., Belgium and Sweden. ClioSoft is headquartered at 43551 Mission Blvd. Suite 107, Fremont, CA 94539. Tel: [phone], http://www.cliosoft.com/.

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