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News Release from: Cadence Design Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 January 2004
Acquisition optimises layout portfolio
Cadence Design Systems has completed the acquisition of Q Design Automation, a privately held company and the leading provider of innovative solutions for migrating and optimising IC layout.
Cadence Design Systems has completed the acquisition of Q Design Automation, a privately held company and the leading provider of innovative solutions for migrating and optimising IC layout - a critical bottleneck in today's designs The terms of the acquisition, which adds layout productivity capabilities to the Cadence Virtuoso custom design platform, were not disclosed
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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QDA's migration and creation products include Qtrek-Migrate, which enables rapid migration of existing designs to new or altered process technologies, and Qtrek-Create, which provides layout optimisation and design rule enforcement.
"Layout is a significant time sink for customers, so giving them the ability to reuse hard IP through efficient migration offers a significant productivity gain", said Lavi Lev, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Implementation Division at Cadence.
"QDA's technologies complement our existing VLE and VXL layout products and meet our criteria for providing custom designers with world-class, productivity-enhancing capabilities.
Customers we've surveyed rate Qtrek-Migrate higher than competing solutions in critical productivity areas of ease of use and hierarchy preservation".
"This move is a win for QDA and for our combined customer base", said David Marple, CEO of QDA.
"The acquisition gives QDA excellent access to the custom layout market and ensures even tighter integration with the Virtuoso platform, which is the platform of choice for the majority of layout designers".
"Rambus is focused on providing our customers with the most efficient design layout possible", says Samir Patel, Vice President, Memory Interface Division of Rambus.
"By deploying Qtrek-Migrate as part of our design environment for our RDRAM and Yellowstone interfaces, we have the ability to rapidly create and retarget our designs to new processes.
This allows us to retain the layout hierarchy and p-cell structure for a better migration path to 90nm process technology".
Cadence expects to begin offering QDA's technology in the first quarter of 2004 as part of its Virtuoso layout design platform.
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