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Cadence Significantly Accelerates Chip Design With New Virtuoso Layout Suite for Electrically Aware Design

SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- Jul 10, 2013 -- Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ: CDNS)

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Offering increased design team productivity and circuit performance for custom ICs, Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ: CDNS) today introduced a groundbreaking approach to custom design with its Virtuoso® Layout Suite for Electrically Aware Design (EAD). This unique in-design electrical verification capability enables design teams to monitor electrical issues while a layout is created, rather than wait until the layout is completed before verifying that it meets the original design intent. Virtuoso Layout Suite EAD allows engineers to reduce their circuit design cycle by up to 30 percent while optimizing chip size and performance.

Using this innovative new technology, engineers can electrically analyze, simulate and verify interconnect decisions in real time, resulting in layout that is electrically correct-by-construction. This real-time visibility lets engineers reduce conservative design practices -- or "over-design" -- that can negatively impact a chip's performance and area.

Virtuoso Layout Suite EAD delivers:

"Virtuoso Layout Suite EAD represents a big leap forward for automating custom design, enabling layout designers and circuit designers to work together more efficiently and effectively through greater real-time visibility into electrical issues," said Tom Beckley, senior vice president, research and development, Silicon Realization Group at Cadence. "EAD underscores our commitment to keep evolving our Virtuoso platform to ensure it meets the needs of the countless engineers who rely on it to tackle complex design challenges."

For more information about the Virtuoso Layout Suite EAD, please click here.

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, hardware, IP, 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.

© 2013 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Cadence, Virtuoso and the Cadence logo are registered trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

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Dean Solov
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
408-944-7226

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