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New Release of Cadence Incisive Platform Doubles Productivity of SoC Verification

SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- Jan 22, 2013 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, today introduced a new version of its leading functional verification platform and methodologies, featuring a broad set of new and enhanced capabilities which double the productivity of SoC verification over the previous release. Incisive® 12.2 delivers 2x performance, a new Incisive Debug Analyzer product, new low-power modeling, and hundreds of additional features needed to perform effective verification of today's complex intellectual property (IP) and SoCs.

For IP block-to-chip verification, enhancements include:

At the SoC level, Incisive 12.2 has greater capacity for longer running simulations, including those incorporating low-power and mixed-signal designs.

For SoC verification, enhancements include:

"Performance, scalability, and efficiency define our high-density switches," said Fred Homewood, chief technology officer and founder of Gnodal Ltd, which plans to deploy the Incisive 12.2 release to its team in 2013. "The Incisive Platform and support team embodies these qualities, leading us to substantially increase our Incisive Enterprise Simulator licenses and deploy the Incisive Enterprise Manager and Incisive SimVision debug. We are implementing the metric-driven verification methodology and will use its automated verification planning capability to demonstrate our development productivity to our customers."

"Some of our customers are building 200 million-gate SoCs -- even larger -- at advanced nodes," said Chi-Ping Hsu, senior vice president, Silicon Realization Group at Cadence. "The successful verification of these designs is critical, and it requires the coordination of distributed worldwide teams. Unmatched in the breadth of its technology, Incisive 12.2 provides the productivity improvements these teams need to bring their designs to market fast and at high quality."

The new Incisive release integrates with Cadence® verification IP for SoC verification, the Cadence Virtual System Platform for system verification, and the Palladium® XP for acceleration which includes the ability to hot-swap between software-based simulation and hardware-based acceleration.

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.

Cadence, Incisive, Palladium 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.

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Dean Solov
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
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