Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems, Inc is one of the world's largest provider of EDA software with headquarters in San Jose, USA.

Cadence offers especially in the design and verification of chips and electronic circuit boards specialized software, in recent years ever more IP cores as well as services in the development and verification of hardware.

History

Cadence decided in 1995 to convert the hardware modeling language for ASICs and FPGAs " Verilog HDL " in a free standard. This was adopted in the same year as IEEE Standard 1364-1995 ( Verilog -95).

Part of business policy of Cadence has always been the acquisition of smaller companies. In most cases the product range by the products of the bought company was expanded directly. Acquisitions in the recent past are: