Cadence supports Intel Itanium 2-based Linux platforms

Cadence Design Systems Inc has announced that it has released key products of
the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform on Intel Itanium 2-based
systems running the 64-bit Linux operating system. According to the press
release, Cadence has ported its new generation technology products to Intel
Itanium 2-based Linux platforms to offer customers the increased capacity and
higher performance critical for designing the largest and most complex
system-on-chip (SoC) designs in the industry today. This move is part of the
company’s strategy to provide customers with the widest range of options and
operating systems to meet their design needs.

The company claims that Cadence’s new generation technology, combined with
Intel Architecture-based hardware running Linux, delivers significantly better
price and performance than conventional or proprietary UNIX platforms for
Cadence customers. Cadence currently provides 32-bit-enabled products on Linux
for its entire product suite, as well as 64-bit products for all major UNIX
operating systems. By providing its customers with a completely interoperable
design solution–through hardware, operating system and design software–Cadence
customers receive significant acceleration of chip design time, leading to
improvement in time to market.

The Cadence Incisive functional verification and Virtuoso custom design
platforms will also have products available on the Linux-based Intel Itanium 2
processor in 2004.

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