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hardware, methodologies, and services that play essential roles

in accelerating innovation in today’s highly complex integrated

circuits, printed circuit boards, and electronics systems. Companies

use Cadence

Cadence serves the more than $1 trillion worldwide electronics market,

which is increasingly being driven by consumer-oriented products.

The major vertical market segments include computers, wired and

wireless communications, and consumer electronics, such as multimedia

and personal entertainment devices. Globally, these account for 75

percent of electronics equipment revenue and more than 90 percent

of semiconductor revenue. The major horizontal segments are systems

companies, semiconductor companies, and silicon providers (ASIC

vendors, foundries, and FPGA companies). Cadence is a leading

provider of EDA solutions in each of these segments, giving the

company unparalleled visibility into the electronics design industry.

Two major trends drive electronics design—increasing silicon capacity

and converging market demands. Silicon capacity has been doubling

every 18-24 months for more than 30 years. Although what is known as

Moore’s Law continues, constraints such as power are now stretching the

limits of productivity, and there seems to be an end in sight.

Nonetheless, to meet market demands to converge computer,

communications, and consumer capabilities into a wide variety of

products—including cell phones, PCs, PDAs, flat panel HDTVs, set-top

boxes, wireless networks, and automobiles—electronics companies

need to invest continually to make the best use of this growing silicon

capacity. This means breaking down barriers between today’s separate

domains of embedded software, digital logic, analog circuits, and PCB

design to meet time-to-market pressures and demands for continued

evolution of device functionality. Cadence is the only company with the

combination of product line breadth, domain expertise, and vertical

design methodology experience to best address these challenges.

The Cadence Encounter

The Cadence Virtuoso

This product group consists of printed circuit board (PCB) and IC

package design products, including the Cadence Allegro

interconnect design platform, which enables co-design of advanced ICs,

IC packages, and PCBs.

The Cadence Incisive

increases quality by verifying that the high-level logical specification of an

IC design is correct. Employing the industry’s first single-kernel architecture,

the Incisive platform delivers the fastest, most efficient way to verify large,

complex chips. Cadence verification process automation enables customers

to manage their entire verification effort, which boosts productivity,

increases predictability, and ensures system-level quality.

Cadence design-for-manufacturing (DFM) solutions ensure that advanced

ICs will be manufacturable with high yields while also meeting aggressive

performance, power, and schedule requirements. These technologies help

customers analyze, optimize, and verify the physical implementation of a

design, taking into account a combination of rules and models that represent

manufacturing limits and variability of customers’ target processes. Cadence

DFM solutions enable customers to produce the lowest cost, most advanced

ICs while still meeting their time-to-market goals.

Cadence Kits help companies in the wired networking, wireless, and

multimedia sectors achieve shorter, more predictable design cycles

and greater productivity by simplifying the application and integration

of EDA technologies and verification intellectual property (IP). Each

Cadence Kit addresses application-specific design issues by combining

verified methodologies packaged in platform flows, and enabling

standards-based IP—all applied to a segment representative design and

delivered with applicability training.