Cadence Encounter Digital IC Design Platform Adds 200 New Customers, Including Ricoh and Siano

SAN JOSE, CA, May 18 (MARKET WIRE) --
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global design
innovation, announced today that it has added more than 200 customers to
its fast-growing list of Cadence(R) Encounter(R) Digital Implementation
IC design platform users over the past 24 months. The Cadence Encounter
Digital Implementation (EDI) System, which was added to the product suite
last December, is achieving wide-scale adoption. Most recently, while
using EDI System Ricoh Co. Ltd. and Siano Mobile Silicon each reported
advantages in productivity, design performance, area reduction and power
consumption when designing large-scale, high-performance advanced-node
digital designs with both complex low power and mixed-signal requirements.

Imaging and digital office solutions products place a wide range of
demands on semiconductor design, including the need for higher efficiency,
miniaturization and reduced power consumption. Ricoh's skilled CMOS
analog, image processing, and information communications designers chose
EDI System to ensure they would achieve the required high quality of
silicon and fast time to market.

"Achieving the area, performance and power consumption targets becomes
more challenging with every new project, and it is critical that our
design software can scale to meet these increasing complexities," said
Kazunobu Sugaya, Manager, Design Engineering Section, Imaging System LSI
Development Center, Electronic Devices Company, Ricoh Co. Ltd. "We are
pleased with the Encounter Digital Implementation System's native
multi-mode, multi-corner timing optimization, signal integrity, and
end-to-end multi-CPU design flow, which enable us to reach design closure
more quickly than ever before."

At Siano, a maker of highly integrated silicon receivers for the mobile
digital TV (MDTV) market, designers successfully develop high-performance
chips to meet extremely challenging power consumption and die-size
constraints. A multidisciplinary team of mixed-signal, power and wireless
design specialists combined the company's proprietary algorithms with the
Encounter Digital Implementation System and the CPF-based Cadence
Low-Power Solution to produce leading-edge mobile entertainment
technology.

"After our evaluation, we chose to adopt the full Encounter Digital
Implementation and signoff system, as well the full Cadence Low-Power
Solution," said Neil Feldman, director of RF and VLSI chip design at
Siano. "The Encounter flow allows us to quickly achieve design closure and
differentiate our products with a complex power shut-off methodology and a
unique multi-supply voltage scheme. This project clearly demonstrated the
benefits of Encounter technology and the Common Power Format."

"We are seeing design teams achieve better productivity, better quality of
silicon, and faster time to market after switching to EDI System's
integrated and scalable design closure solution," said Chi-Ping Hsu,
senior vice president of research and development for the Implementation
Products Group at Cadence. "It is gratifying to see a surge of
technology-leading companies turn to Cadence to achieve differentiated
results for their designs."

About Cadence

Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential
role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics.
Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services
to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics,
networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. The
company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design
centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global
electronics industry. More information about the company, its products,
and services is available at www.cadence.com.

Cadence, the Cadence logo and Encounter are registered trademarks of
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.

For more information, please contact:
Dan Holden
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
408-944-7457
holden@cadence.com

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