Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems
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legal form | Corporation |
ISIN | US1273871087 |
founding | 1988 |
Seat | San Jose (California) |
management | Lip-Bu Tan, President / CEO |
Number of employees | 4950 (2011) |
sales | $ 1.702 billion (2015) |
Branch | Software manufacturer |
Website | www.cadence.com |
Cadence Design Systems, Inc is one of the world's largest providers of EDA software, based in San Jose , USA .
The company primarily offers software specializing in the design and verification of chips and electronic circuit boards, and in recent years increasingly IP cores as well as services in the development and verification of hardware.
history
In 1995 the company decided to convert the hardware modeling language for ASICs and FPGAs “ Verilog HDL ” into a free standard. This was adopted in the same year as IEEE Standard 1364–1995 (Verilog-95).
Taking over smaller companies has always been part of business policy. Most of the time, the product range was expanded directly by the products of the acquired company. Recent acquisitions are:
- 1988: foundation
- 1999: Takeover of OrCAD , which offered the software of the same name for developing printed circuit boards as the market leader. Cadence today sells OrCAD products as part of the Allegro platform.
- 2003: Takeover of Verplex Systems, a provider of software for formal verification and equivalence checks.
- 2005: Acquired Verisity, Ltd, a provider of verification software.
- 2008: Takeover of ChipEstimate, a developer of chip planning software and IP management.
- 2013: Takeover of Tensilica .
- 2020: Takeover of AWR for the design and simulation of high-frequency electronics.
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Homepage of the German distributor FlowCAD (German)
Individual evidence
- ^ Cadence Completes Acquisition of AWR Corporation from National Instruments. In: cadence.com. January 15, 2020, accessed on July 21, 2020 .