Unterpremstaetten, Austria (February 1, 2010) and Feldkirchen, Germany – Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic design innovation, announced today that austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs for communications, industrial, medical and automotive applications and foundry services, has broadened its deployment of Cadence® technology. Over the last two decades, austriamicrosystems has relied on the Cadence Virtuoso® custom IC design platform for its analog and mixed-signal designs and process design kits (PDKs). By choosing Cadence® Encounter® Digital Implementation System for the digital part of its designs, the company can now ensure a tight integration between its design flows.

“austriamicrosystems has used Cadence technology for the development and manufacturing of our analog ICs since 1992. To handle the digital parts of our mixed-signal system-on-chip designs, it was crucial for us to collaborate with one of the most experienced EDA suppliers in this space,” said Thomas Riener, Vice President and General Manager BU Full Service Foundry, at austriamicrosystems. “With Cadence Encounter Digital Implementation System, we are now enabled to tightly integrate our design flows, which will enable us further in ensuring our customers’ success.”

Encounter Digital Implementation System is a full-featured leading-edge digital implementation solution that offers tight interoperability between analog and digital design environments for mixed-signal implementation and analysis. It also delivers the unique ability to perform top-level static timing analysis for mixed-signal designs, including digital components within the analog hierarchy.

Cadence design-for-manufacturing (DFM) technologies are an integral part of the EDI System, enabling early identification, analysis and repair of yield-limiting design elements present at advanced nodes.

“A solution that shares a unified database between custom and digital implementation offers a vast advantage for our customers,” said Limin He, vice president Research & Development of IC digital products at Cadence. “austriamicrosystems benefits from the enhanced interoperability, which enables better communication between the design teams. That enables austriamicrosystems to deploy a more efficient design flow and to save precious design time.”

About austriamicrosystems

austriamicrosystems’ business unit Full Service Foundry has successfully positioned itself in the analog/mixed-signal foundry market offering well-established RF CMOS, High-Voltage CMOS, BiCMOS, SiGe-BiCMOS and embedded EEPROM processes. With superior support during the design phase, high-end tools and experienced engineers, austriamicrosystems succeeds to be an attractive analog foundry partner especially for fabless design houses.

austriamicrosystems is a leading designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs, combining more than 27 years of analog design capabilities and system know-how with its own state-of-the-art manufacturing and test facilities. austriamicrosystems leverages its expertise in low power and high accuracy to provide industry-leading customized and standard analog products. Operating worldwide with more than 1,000 employees, austriamicrosystems focuses on the areas of power management, sensors & sensor interfaces and mobile infotainment in its markets Communications, Industry & Medical and Automotive, complemented by its Full Service Foundry activities. austriamicrosystems is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich (ticker: AMS).

For more information, please visit www.austriamicrosystems.com

About Cadence

Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today’s integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products, and services is available at www.cadence.com

BOSTON, MA-February 2, 2009-Macraigor Systems has expanded their proprietary On-Chip Debug Technology (OCDemon) to support the newest x86 processor, the Intel Atom. Built with the world’s smallest transistors, the Intel Atom processor was designed for low-power mobile internet devices and simple, low-cost PC’s.

Because JTAG debug solutions do not require an operating system on the device, it is ideal for firmware debugging as well as bootcode. Through the JTAG interface, the target hardware is connected to the debugger on the host system. This allows in-depth access of IA-specific features for execution trace support and system-on-a-chip and chipset peripheral register content.

OCDemon offers an optimized interface to these on-chip resources via a choice of communication channels. A host debugger communicates with a Macraigor Systems’ device and then to the target processor. Since there is no need for any resident code, this debug method is available for hardware initialization and debug as well as kernel, driver and application software debug.

OCDemon has continued to be an Intel recommended JTAG debug solution for hardware manufactures that need to debug applications on host development platforms or remote TCP/IP sites. Macraigor is offering a free port of the popular GNU toolkit (gcc, gas and gdb) for the Atom processor on their website, www.macraigor.com as well as full support for Eclipse Ganymede.

The Macraigor Eclipse Ganymede/Galileo + GNU Tools Suite is an implementation and packaging of the Eclipse Ganymede/Galileo platform, CDT (C/C++ Development Tooling) 5.0.x, and DSDP (Device Software Development Platform) 1.0 plug-ins, and a program called OcdRemote that provides an interface between Eclipse, the GDB debugger and a Macraigor On-Chip Debug device.

“Macraigor Systems has a long standing relationship with Intel providing JTAG debug interface support. The fact that Macraigor is named as a preferred vendor speaks to that relationship and to OCDemon’s ability to meet the demanding quality and performance requirements for debugging Atom applications,” said managing partner James MacGregor.

Pricing & Availability

Macraigor’s JTAG interface devices are immediately available for use with the Intel Atom based designs as well as other Intel family devices including the XScale family of processors. OCDemon for the Intel Atom is available immediately starting at $250 USD. The port of the GNU Tools Suite and Eclipse Ganymede/Galileo platform is being offered at no charge and can be downloaded at www.macraigor.com.

About Macraigor Systems

Macraigor Systems, LLC is a leading supplier of JTAG connection devices for on-chip debugging. Their reputation in the embedded industry has been built on the OCDemon product technology which provides a low-cost, full-featured connection from a PC to the on-chip debug facilities of 32 and 64-bit processors, providing host support for Windows and Linux and systems.

Macraigor Systems also provides Flash Programming software that allows in-circuit programming of target Flash EEPROM memory devices via a JTAG connection. The Flash Programmer works with a wide variety of the most popular Flash devices currently on the market. For more information about Macraigor Systems’ products, please visit www.macraigor.com.