Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Cadence Design Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 15 February 2002
Cadence and Agilent
focus on wireless development
Cadence Design Systems and Agilent Technologies have signed far-reaching multi-year technology alliance that is expected to accelerate electronic product development in the communications industry
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Through this alliance, the industry leaders in electronic and radio-frequency (RF) design, respectively, expect to develop and market complete integrated solutions to speed the design of ICs for the wireless and wireline communications industries. "This is the beginning of an alliance with Agilent, with its best-in-class RF technology for electronics design, that will produce superior solutions to accelerate time to market for customers", said Ray Bingham, president and CEO of Cadence.
"By pooling the expertise and resources of two industry leaders, we can deliver even greater value to our mutual customers".
"Cadence is clearly the industry standard in analogue/mixed-signal IC design", said Ned Barnholt, president and CEO of Agilent.
"Working together on further integrating our electronic design solutions will provide a win for our customers within a reasonably short time frame".
In the first phase of the alliance, the companies will jointly develop a more integrated design flow for large-scale RF/mixed-signal integrated circuits (RF/MS ICs) used in wireless appliances and high-speed networking equipment.
By eliminating the need for electronics companies to spend time integrating separate electronic design technologies, a jointly developed RF/MS IC design flow is expected to substantially shorten product development time, lower design costs, and enable companies to focus on creating innovative products.
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"We are pleased to see this partnership between Cadence and Agilent", said David Cave, vice president of the Advanced Technology Integration Centre, Motorola SPS.
"We use solutions from both companies in our design flow.
The integration of RF and mixed-signal IC design flow methodologies will greatly reduce our time-to-market for complex systems on chips".
Philippe Magarshack, Central R and D Group vice president at STMicroelectronics said, "We've been partnering both with Cadence and Agilent in the past years to be able to provide ST designers with a best-in-class RF design flow for our breadth of BICMOS and RFCMOS processes.
I'm very pleased to see that Agilent's RF flow will give us a single design solution that will enhance designer productivity and therefore accelerate time to market for our products".
The companies have initiated codevelopment of a more integrated design flow involving the Cadence Analog Design Environment and Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS) software to improve interactivity.
Cadence Analog Design Environment is a front-to-back analogue design solution for full-custom analogue and RF IC design.
Agilent ADS is electronic design software for communications product design.
Jointly developed solutions, beginning with a significantly tighter integration of these complementary technologies, are expected to become available as early as the second half of 2002.
In future phases, Cadence and Agilent expect to expand the design flow to incorporate additional electronic design, verification, and test technologies from both companies.
The result will be a complete systems-to-IC design implementation solution.
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