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News Release from: Cadence Design Systems
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Team on 06 August 2004
EDA deal helps Fujitsu towards IDM
business model
Fujitsu and Cadence Design Systems, Japan have signed a global partnership agreement to create advanced SoC design environments.
Fujitsu and Cadence Design Systems, Japan have signed a global partnership agreement to create advanced SoC design environments The design environments resulting from this agreement will further address today's demand for new design methodologies for the development of advanced SoCs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This partnership agreement is revolutionary as an EDA-related agreement, as it provides design solutions that go beyond a simple sales agreement for EDA tools.
The agreement encompasses tens of thousands of Cadence licences, including numerous SoC Encounter licences.
The worldwide Fujitsu Group and all of its design centres will have access to licences covered by this agreement.
In addition to its standard support, Cadence will provide personnel support organisationally to the worldwide Fujitsu Group and its design centres in order to fully leverage this agreement.
As strategic business partners, Fujitsu and Cadence will jointly develop methodologies that merge design and process technologies, and plan to expand their global business collaboration to markets such as in the USA and China.
Under the agreement, Fujitsu will deploy to all of its design centres the combination of a variety of licences and a new design methodology known as physical prototyping (also referred to as silicon virtual prototyping) for SoC development for 0.13um technology and beyond.
Using the world's highest-standard design environments will minimise design iterations, which can be a major obstacle for meeting delivery deadlines, and will significantly shorten design lead times.
This approach is also highly effective for reducing die size and noise, and lowering power consumption.
These advantages make it possible for Fujitsu to finalise and fix SoC design schedules, which are of particular importance to customers, and also contribute greatly to the finalisation of customers' tight product development schedules.
As a SoC design technology partner that goes beyond being a conventional EDA supplier, Cadence will support Fujitsu's SoC business by establishing an internal organisation dedicated to provide centralised support to Fujitsu's design centres worldwide.
Shigeru Fujii, Senior Corporate Vice President and Group President of Fujitsu's LSI Business Group said: "For the latest technology, while LSI functions continue to grow in complexity and become larger in scale, and design and development become increasingly difficult, there is a great need for shortening development lead times".
"In order to overcome these issues, Fujitsu is implementing a new IDM (integrated device manufacturer) business model in which we establish strategic partnerships with customers and vendors".
"This agreement with Cadence is a facet of this new IDM business model".
"We will help our customers increase their product competitiveness by updating our development environments to the world's highest standards".
General Manager of Fujitsu's Design Methodology Development Division, LSI Group, Kazuyuki Kawauchi states: "Under this agreement with Cadence, all of our design centres and the Fujitsu Group worldwide will be equipped with abundant EDA tools as well as new design methodologies to fully leverage them".
"It is now possible to overcome and resolve the issue of design iterations, the most challenging issue for developing large-scale SoCs using 0.13-micron technology and beyond, thus enabling us to dramatically raise the certainty of design schedules".
"Now that this agreement is in place, I strongly believe that the days when our design environments were limited by the number of tools available will be a thing of the past".
"Cadence will support Fujitsu's SoC business with a complete solution ranging from upper-stream to lower-stream designs, implementation, verification and manufacturing", said Ryoichi Kawashima, President of Cadence Design Systems, Japan.
"This innovative agreement is unique in its large-scale, comprehensive, enterprise-level approach - the likes of which no other EDA company has ever offered".
"We are committed to support Fujitsu in all of its many design centres worldwide".
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