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Cadence to Keynote, Present Papers at ISQED

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – March 19, 2012) – 

WHEN: March 19 to March 21Tom Beckley, senior vice president of Research and Development, Custom IC and Signoff, Silicon Realization Group at Cadence Design Systems, Inc, (NASDAQ: CDNS), will deliver a keynote on advanced node chip design at the International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). In addition, Cadence engineers will participate in two paper presentations at the conference.

WHERE: Techmart Center, Santa Clara, Calif.

WHAT: Beckley, who leads R&D for Cadence custom IC and signoff technology, will deliver a keynote on, “Taming the Challenges in Advanced Node Design” at 8:15 a.m. March 20.

At 2:30 p.m. March 20, Cadence will join representatives of the IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center to deliver a paper titled, “Understanding, Modeling, and Detecting Pooling Hotspots in Copper CMP.”

At 5:30 p.m. March 20, Sachin Shrivastava and Harindranath Parameswaran from Cadence will deliver a paper titled, “Efficient Reduction Techniques for Statistical Model Generation of Standard Cells.”

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, hardware, IP, 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.

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