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Intel Custom Foundry Certifies Cadence Implementation and Signoff Tools for 10nm Tri-Gate Process

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 12, 2016 — (PRNewswire) —  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that its implementation and signoff tools have achieved certification on the Intel® third-generation 10nm tri-gate process for customers of Intel Custom Foundry. Intel Custom Foundry utilized a PowerVR GT7200 graphics processing unit (GPU) from Imagination Technologies as part of the certification process.

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The tool certification and enablement provide Intel Custom Foundry customers with a complete and integrated system-on-chip (SoC) design flow. Cadence® tools in the flow include:

For more information on the Cadence tools that are certified, please visit cadence.com/go/icf10nm, and for more information on Intel Custom Foundry, please visit intel.com/foundry.

"Intel Custom Foundry has worked closely with Cadence to deliver an optimized design ecosystem for our customers who are creating innovative, advanced-node designs," said Dr. Changhong Dai, vice president, Technology and Manufacturing Group, and director, Technology Optimization Solutions at Intel. "The certified Cadence digital implementation, signoff and simulation tools offer our mutual customers a complete and integrated flow and help them achieve superior PPA on Intel's third-generation tri-gate 10nm process technology." 

"Our PowerVR Series7XT GPUs are designed to provide optimal performance and a seamless user experience for next-generation user interfaces, 3D gaming and GPU compute," said Graham Deacon, senior director of PowerVR Business Operations, Imagination. "Imagination worked closely with Cadence and Intel Custom Foundry to use our PowerVR GT7200 GPU for this tool certification. This effort is part of ensuring that design flows deliver excellent PPA for our GPUs on Intel's 10nm process."

"Our collaboration with Intel Custom Foundry on the certification process provides customers with added confidence that they can overcome design complexity and get to market faster using the Cadence flow on Intel Custom Foundry's 10nm design platform," said Dr. Anirudh Devgan, senior vice president and general manager of the Digital & Signoff Group and the System & Verification Group at Cadence. "Intel Custom Foundry's growing customer base can now create differentiated SoCs on the Intel 10nm process using the full system-level-to-signoff Cadence tool flow."

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