( ESNUG 424 Item 3 ) -------------------------------------------- [03/09/04]


Subject: Ray Clarifies The Cadence Product Stance On System Verilog

> Cooley pushed Bingham to explain why Cadence doesn't have a System
> Verilog product.  Bingham talked again about his company's Incisive
> verification platform, and then questioned how much of a market there
> is for standalone System Verilog tools.  "We choose to serve a market
> without owning an asset," he said.
>
>   - http://www.eedesign.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=18201864


From: [ Ray Bingham, CEO of Cadence ]

Hi, John,

Sorry if there's any confusion about Cadence's stand on System Verilog
after the panel.  We're not developing a stand alone System Verilog
simulator, but instead incorporating System Verilog into our current tool
set.  This work has been underway here at Cadence since mid-2003.  You'll
see the results of these efforts in products by end of this year.  For the
record, Cadence will have System Verilog support for Get2chips RTL Compiler,
NC-Sim, Palladium, and Verplex Conformal by Q4 of 2004.

    - Ray Bingham
      Cadence Design Systems, Inc.               San Jose, CA