Cadence Collaborates With Toshiba Corporation on Integrated Design Environment for COT and SoC Design

SAN JOSE, CA, Jun 29 (MARKET WIRE) --
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global
electronic design innovation, today announced an extensive collaboration
with Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company to address the challenges
of existing and next-generation SoC designs. Toshiba is a leading
provider of process and design solution for cutting-edge SoC products.
Based on the Cadence(R) Encounter(R) Digital Implementation System and
the Cadence Virtuoso(R) Custom Design Solution, the collaboration
provides a full digital and mixed-signal design environment to Toshiba
and its COT customers for the most advanced semiconductor products where
integration of digital and mixed-signal designs is a key to success.

"In highly competitive markets such as wireless and consumer devices
designers are expressing a growing requirement for integration of digital
and mixed-signal content on ever-smaller semiconductor devices," said
Tatsuo Noguchi, Technology Executive for SoC of Toshiba Corporation
Semiconductor Company. "Because the Cadence Encounter and Virtuoso design
environments provide the industry-leading analog and digital design flows
necessary to meet these challenges, we are delighted to work closely with
Cadence and help our COT customers realize their highly integrated custom
IC design. We expect the collaboration to continue to provide benefits to
the design community going forward."

The ongoing collaboration focuses primarily on physical implementation,
verification, and custom analog integration for COT and SoC designs. The
physical implementation flow includes Cadence Encounter RTL Compiler,
Cadence Conformal(R) verification suite, Cadence QRC Extraction and the
Encounter Digital Implementation System. The Toshiba flow utilizes Cadence
Encounter Timing System for timing verification, Cadence Physical
Verification System for physical verification, Cadence Virtuoso IC 6.1 for
custom analog design and Cadence process design kits (PDKs) for quicker,
more accurate design.

"Cadence has worked extensively over the years with Toshiba Semiconductor
to provide the design environment necessary to meet all the latest
challenges to COT and SoC designs," said Chi-Ping Hsu, senior vice
president of the Implementation Products Group at Cadence. "We're
confident that this association will continue to deliver the design flows
necessary to create high-quality semiconductor products."

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, Encounter, Virtuoso and the Cadence logo 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:
Dan Holden
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
(408) 944-7457
holden@cadence.com

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