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Sun and Cadence

Today's semiconductors and electronic systems are getting more and more complex. You need to pack more functionality into your chips, boards, and products to achieve breakthrough results. And you need a platform that can scale today and tomorrow. With Cadence and Sun, what you design is what you get.


Cadence Design Systems is a leading EDA technologies and engineering services company. Cadence helps its customers break through their challenges by providing leading edge electronic design solutions that speed advanced IC and system designs to volume production. Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, printed circuit boards and systems used in consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems.

Alliance Overview

For more than 20 years, Cadence and Sun have worked together to deliver high-performance design environments and technology innovations to the EDA market. All current Cadence design platforms are supported on the Solaris Operating System. Working together with Cadence, Sun focuses on ensuring that Cadence software is optimized for maximum efficiency and reliability for Solaris running on Sun's SPARC and x64 systems.

In addition to 64-bit porting of major applications, Sun also helps Cadence optimizes EDA applications for Java, multi-threading, and parallel processing.


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Solutions At a Glance

  • Low Power
  • Advanced Verification
  • Digital Implementation
  • Custom Design
  • PCB Design
  • Advanced Packaging
  • Design for Manufacturability

What's New

Sun NetTalk: Cadence Design Systems - Addressing Today's Key Challenges in Electronic Product Design
Listen to David Thon, Group Director of Marketing, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. talk about the business value of running Cadence applications on Solaris.

Cadence Design Systems Running Solaris 10 OS Achieves Breakthrough Results

Feature Story — You've used Cadence on Solaris for years. Now you can run it on x64 systems too.


Spotlight

Cadence Customer Success Story
Cadence Incisive Xtreme Server helps speed the completion of breakthrough processor technology.

 
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