I attended in Rancho Bernardo, I recall Fred Falk, I believe it was, stating that his vision was to emulate Cadence, or something to that effect. Now it's only been 9 or 10 years so it is a bit fuzzy but they are a premier engineering house.
And they just had a rough year.
2008 year-end from continuing worldwide operations
- Revenue: $1.0 billion
- Total assets: $1.6 billion
And they might even be on the list as an infringer.
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To keep pace with market demand for more performance and functionality in today’s mobile phones, digital cameras, computers, automotive systems and other electronics products, manufacturers pack billions of transistors onto a single chip. This massive integration parallels the shift to ever-smaller process geometries, where the chip’s transistors and other physical features can be smaller than the wavelength of light used to print them.
Designing and manufacturing semiconductor devices with such phenomenal scale, complexity and technological challenges would not be possible without electronic design automation (EDA). It is essential for everything from verifying that the myriad transistors do what the designer intended to dealing with physical effects on electrons traveling miles of wires with widths sometimes measuring less than 100 nanometers.
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