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SAN JOSE, CALIF. - Cadence Design Systems this week will announce two key OEM deals that will shore up highly strategic product lines. An expanded agreement with Synplicity Inc. is fueling Cadence's most complete FPGA solution in several years, while a deal with Numerical Technologies will bring optical proximity correction (OPQ into an upcoming physical-verification tool suite.
Cadence has been reselling Synplicity's Synplify synthesis tool for two years, but the expanded agreement to be announced this week will mark the debut of FPGA Studio, a prepackaged design solution. Further, for the first time, Synplicity will resell Cadence's NC VHDL and Verilog-XL "desktop" simulators.
Meanwhile, in physical verification, Cadence has suffered considerable market erosion but is promising a comeback with a product line set to debut in June at the Design Automation Conference. The deal with Numerical Technologies (NumeriTech) will bring in OPC as well as silicon-vs.-layout checking, as provided in NumeriTech's recent SiVL product.
Cadence first decided to resell the floating-license version of Synplify as a standalone product in 1998, and to focus all its internal synthesis efforts on the ASIC...