Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Cadence Design Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 9 November 2001
Cadence to acquire Silicon Perspective
Cadence Design Systems has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Silicon Perspective Corp (SPC)
The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Cadence expects the acquisition to be completed in December 2001. First Encounter, SPC's advanced virtual prototyping tool, includes hierarchical floorplanning, placement, and analysis that reduce cycle times for large designs. First Encounter will augment both current PKS/Silicon Ensemble (SE)-PKS and future Integration Ensemble (IE) for SoC synthesis, place and route (SP and R) design technology from Cadence, thus enabling designers to complete very large chips faster.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 November 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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First Encounter is currently used in conjunction with Cadence SP and R at numerous customer sites, with proven success.
On completion of the acquisition, Cadence will immediately be able to provide a solution that accelerates the implementation of very large designs containing many millions of gates, based on advanced SPC technology and the proven, industry-leading Cadence IC implementation tools, PKS and SE-PKS.
Cadence channel strengths are expected to accelerate the proliferation of SPC's technology into the market.
"The SPC acquisition brings Cadence the leading virtual prototype solution available today", said Ray Bingham, president and CEO of Cadence.
"SPC's technology allows designers to explore physical implementation feasibility - an early, accurate view of a very large design - in a matter of hours, before going through a detailed back-end process.
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The combination of PKS and SE-PKS with SPC's leading-edge virtual prototyping will provide our customers with the most complete, compelling solution in the electronic design marketplace".
The combination of SPC's First Encounter and PKS/SE-PKS creates the highest capacity physical design flow available for large-scale SoCs.
With this electronic design technology solution, engineers can explore the impact of implementation choices on chip performance and physical viability.
IC designers can use First Encounter to produce a high-quality floor plan, and then complete the implementation using PKS/SE-PKS.
"First Encounter is widely acknowledged as the best prototyping product available", said Ping Chao, SPC's CEO.
"By joining forces with Cadence, we can better address the design community's needs.
The combination of our teams will enable us to quickly serve many more customers with this technology".
"Hierarchical implementation based on a full-chip virtual prototype is the high-performance strategy for multi-million-gate designs", said Lavi Lev, senior vice president and general manager for the Cadence IC Solutions Business.
"SPC significantly augments the proven Cadence existing solution to more completely meet our customers' most demanding IC design needs".
Once the acquisition is completed, SPC will operate as a separate group within Cadence.
SPC will continue to work out of its headquarters building in Santa Clara, and its 70 employees will become Cadence employees.
Cadence and SPC will continue to support First Encounter in use with non-Cadence physical design technology.
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