IBM and Cadence Form Joint Program Office
Companies to Service the Windows NT Segment of the EDA Market
SAN JOSE, Calif (June 15, 1998) – . IBM* and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced the creation of a joint program office located at the Cadence corporate headquarters in San Jose, Calif. The two companies are extending their global co-marketing relationship to service the needs of the electronic design automation (EDA) industry as it transitions to a mixed UNIX and Windows NT** development environment.
“Today’s electronics executives are looking for cost-effective development environments which give them speed to market,” said Mike Kerr, director of worldwide marketing, IBM Professional Workstation Products. “The NT environment permits standardization on a single platform, reduced cost, and the potential for a single engineering desktop.”
The joint program office will centralize a variety of co-development and marketing activities for qualifying Windows NT-based products from Cadence on the IBM IntelliStation* workstation and promoting Windows NT/UNIX interoperability solutions. Additionally, the two companies will jointly market consulting service offerings that leverage the process re-engineering expertise of IBM Global Services and the design realization capabilities of the Cadence services organization.>
According to Rita Glover, president and principal analyst at EDA Today, “The coupling of the IBM and Cadence products and services is a unique development for the EDA industry. Designers now have access to world-class EDA technology and high performance hardware backed by a service team with the experienced needed to implement NT and integrated UNIX/NT solutions.”
IBM will demonstrate the Cadence logic simulation and high-speed printed circuit board design software (Verilog-XL** Desktop simulator and Allegro** layout system) on the new 400MHZ IBM IntelliStation M Pro at 35th Design Automation Conference this week in San Francisco, Calif. Demonstrations will be shown continuously in the IBM Exhibit Booth # 1318.
Source: IBM