SAN JOSE, Calif., 03 Jun 2015 — Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today unveiled the Cadence® Genus™ Synthesis Solution, its next-generation register-transfer level (RTL) synthesis and physical synthesis engine, to address the productivity challenges faced by RTL designers. Genus Synthesis Solution incorporates a multi-level massively parallel architecture that delivers up to 5X faster synthesis turnaround times and scales linearly beyond 10M instances. In addition, the tool’s new physically aware context-generation capability can reduce iterations between unit- and chip-level synthesis by 2X or more. This powerful combination enables up to 10X improvement in RTL design productivity. 

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SAN JOSE, Calif., 03 Jun 2015 — Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that it is collaborating with Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) to enhance RTL designer productivity and enable faster design convergence on Imagination graphics cores and other Imagination intellectual property (IP) using the Cadence® Genus™ Synthesis Solution. On the PowerVR GE7800 GPU, the Genus Synthesis Solution achieved a 5X improvement in turnaround time versus the previous Cadence synthesis solution with no impact on power, performance or area (PPA). 

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