Motorola Pioneers New Verification Methodology With Quickturn's Mercury Design Verification System.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2000

Emulator Speeds Time-to-Market for Motorola's

Next-Generation Digital TV Solutions

Quickturn(TM), a company of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN), today announced an agreement with Motorola's Entertainment Solutions Division for Quickturn's Mercury(TM) Design Verification System for verification of Motorola's next-generation digital television (DTV) products. Motorola's Munich-based DTV Design Center will use the Mercury System to shorten verification time for its complex electronic systems and ensure delivery of desired functionality and performance.

The Quickturn emulator will enable Motorola to verify highly integrated video and audio solutions and build virtual prototypes before first silicon arrival. According to Reinhard Hahn, design manager at Motorola in Munich, &uot;When we introduced the Mercury Design Verification System into our verification flow we anticipated numerous challenges as early adopters of this technology. We were extremely pleased with the efficiency of the Quickturn services organization and their ability to integrate Mercury into our design flow with minimal problems. Their expertise helped us get our silicon out on schedule. We plan to continue to use their technology for future designs and have just expanded our system capacity to meet the challenge of growing design sizes.&uot;

Mercury is the electronic design automation (EDA) industry's first continuous verification environment for design verification of complex integrated circuits (ICs) from concept through system-level integration. The system incorporates Quickturn's fifth-generation field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based emulation technology.

&uot;When a chip design goes into fabrication it should be bug free, work in the context of the system, and deliver the right performance and feature set. These goals were the motivating force behind the creation of the Mercury System and we appreciate the pioneering role that Motorola has played in introducing this technology into its design flow,&uot; said Ray Turner, product line manager at Quickturn.

About Motorola

As the world's number one producer of embedded processors, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector offers multiple DigitalDNA(TM) solutions, which enable its customers to create new business opportunities in the consumer, networking, computing, transportation, and wireless communications market. Motorola is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions. http://www.motorola.com/semiconductors

About Quickturn

Quickturn, a Cadence company, is the leading provider of high performance verification products and time-to-market engineering [TtME(TM)] services for the design of complex IC and electronic systems. The Quickturn products are used by developers of high-performance computing, multimedia, graphics, and communications systems. For more information about Quickturn products, visit the Quickturn website at www.quickturn.com or send e-mail to [e-mail].

Cadence is the largest supplier of electronic design automation products, methodology services, and design services 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. With approximately 5,000 employees and 1999 annual revenues of $1.1 billion, Cadence is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and has sales offices, design centers, and research facilities located 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 may be obtained from the World Wide Web at http://www.cadence.com.

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