Kaben Wireless Silicon Achieves up to 7X Performance Boost With Cadence Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator

SAN JOSE, CA, Jun 16 (MARKET WIRE) --
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global
electronic design innovation, today announced that Kaben Wireless Silicon
has achieved dramatic performance boosts while running top-level
simulations using the Cadence(R) Virtuoso(R) Accelerated Parallel
Simulator (APS). Kaben, a leading provider of RFIC semiconductor IP for
next-generation wireless communication, also credits the Virtuoso
Accelerated Parallel Simulator with enabling engineers to find and
resolve design issues that they believe they would have missed without
the performance and capacity delivered by APS.

The simulator was introduced in December, and to date Kaben has achieved
impressive results, including one case where Kaben achieved a 7.6 times
performance boost with four threads over the baseline SPICE simulator on a
pre-layout PLL design with fewer than 5,000 devices. In the case of a
post-layout PLL design with 328,000 devices dominated by parasitics, the
Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator ran the complete simulation
without reducing the design net list in four days with full SPICE
accuracy compared to a previous solution where they were not even able to
run the simulation.

"Because of its quick run time and high-capacity, the Virtuoso Accelerated
Parallel Simulator helped our team find design issues early on in the
verification phase, then quickly fix them and run another iteration of
verification," said Tom Riley, chief technology officer of Kaben Wireless
Silicon. "The ability to perform high-capacity post-layout simulations
quickly, for fully functional and integrated transceiver IP, with full
SPICE accuracy and scalable performance across a multi-compute platform is
a real enabler for our efforts to deliver turnkey wireless applications to
our customers."

The Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator also enables Kaben to run
simulations at new levels of abstraction. Kaben engineers can get more
coverage across various corners and conditions in less time than required
by previous solutions. The simulator can be accessed through a flexible
token-based licensing model.

The Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator delivers the full accuracy of
the industry reference Cadence Virtuoso Spectre(R) Circuit Simulator.
Developed to solve the largest and most complex analog and mixed-signal
designs across all process nodes, it consists of a combination of proven
Cadence simulation technologies and a breakthrough parallel circuit
solver, along with a newly architected engine that efficiently harnesses
the power of multiprocessing computing platforms. The result is a circuit
simulator with an accuracy and use model identical to the Virtuoso
Spectre Circuit Simulator, delivering significantly improved
single-thread performance and scalable multi-thread performance.

"Kaben Wireless Silicon's designs are, by necessity, very complex
components, and therefore comprehensive simulations are a necessity to
help ensure they meet customer specifications," said Zhihong Liu,
corporate vice president of Cadence. "Kaben is seeing firsthand how the
Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator delivers comprehensive
simulation, and helps ensure market opportunities are realized."

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, Spectre and Virtuoso are registered trademarks
of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

For more information, please contact:
Dean Solov
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
408-944-7226
dsolov@cadence.com

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