Date: 29th May 2011

Cadence claims as patent leader in EDA market

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced it has received its 1000th U.S. patent. The company holds in excess of 1,200 patents worldwide.

"As the patent leader in the EDA market, Cadence embodies an inventive spirit that has led to many advancements in semiconductor and system design," said Lip-Bu Tan, president and chief executive officer at Cadence. "This inventive spirit enables us to deliver on the EDA360 vision outlined last year, which advocates an application-driven approach to electronics design. We constantly challenge the industry and ourselves to think outside the box, and our patent history proves our ability to rise to the challenge."

The release states in many cases, Cadence patents have formed the foundation for design practices that have been adopted by the EDA industry as a whole to overcome some of the industry's most complex design challenges. Cadence holds key patents in the areas of formal verification, analog and mixed-signal simulation, custom design environments and more.