Cadence Design Systems

The purchase of Tensilica by Cadence Design Systems could prove the way that EDA and multicore-based system design come together.

Cadence Design Systems has announced on the eve of CDNLive Silicon Valley that it has decided to buy configurable-processor company Tensilica for approximately $380m in cash.

As DVCon begins, we interview Cadence's Qi Wang, who has led its efforts to converge the Common Power Format with its rival as the IEEE1801 standard is revamped.

Cadence Design Systems is to buy Cosmic Circuits Private Limited, a developer of analog and mixed signal intellectual property (IP) cores.

GlobalFoundries has signed deals to let the foundry offer power-saving clocks, a massively parallel floating-point processor and interface IP from Rambus. They are "uncommon solutions" to come from a foundry, the company claims.

Cadence Design Systems has built into its latest Virtuoso update features designed to tackle the problems of working with the 20nm generation of processes with finer control over layout-dependent effects, double patterning and new types of local interconnect.

14nm finFET test-chip designs are moving through Samsung's fab as ARM, Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys continue to check their flows on the new process.

Traditional IP reuse is giving way to configurable, customized cores delivered by semi-automated "IP factory" groups.

Cadence Design Systems has developed semiconductor IP for the automotive industry's OPEN Alliance to make ethernet the core networking backbone of future motor vehicles.

You can now get a complete system-level flow, but bundling 'free' ESL with RTL tools slows the methodology shift, says the leading design analyst. Meanwhile, Cadence moves into the number two vendor slot, but the battle rages on.