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15 July 2004

Product News

Cadence and Rambus Sign Agreements to Deliver Portfolio of High-Speed Serial Link Solutions

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Rambus Inc., a developer of chip interface products and services, announced multi-faceted agreements to offer comprehensive solutions for the serial link interface market.

The increasing need among digitally savvy consumers to move large amounts of data from one electronic device to another is driving demand for very high-speed device to device communications rates. High-speed serial link interfaces play a critical role in achieving these communication rate increases. Cadence and Rambus have teamed up to address this need by providing designers of computers, data storage, graphics, networking and multimedia devices with immediate access to a broad portfolio of foundry-based, high-speed interface cells coupled with high-quality chip design services.

Under agreements between the companies, Rambus is acquiring serial link intellectual property (IP) from Cadence to incorporate into its existing RaSerT product line of serial link cells. Cadence Engineering Services will gain access to Rambus's portfolio of serial link cells to deliver customized design solutions as needed. Cadence will be the exclusive EDA industry reseller of Rambus's foundry serial link cells, and will exclusively sell only Rambus foundry serial link cells off-the-shelf (OTS).

"With chip and system designs becoming faster and more complex, customers are seeking comprehensive, integrated design solutions to bring their products to market more rapidly," said Geoff Tate, chief executive officer at Rambus. "Adding this IP to our RaSer family of serial link technologies expands our offering of serial link cells with additional proven technology, while providing us access to the strength of the Cadence sales and services channel. This allows us access to new market opportunities and broadens the reach of our high speed serial link solutions."

"The impact of these agreements is that for the first time customers will be provided access to industry-leading serial-link IP and design services from a single source, knowing that the design IP and the tools work together, so lowering design-in cost and design-cycle time," said Mike Fister, president and chief executive officer at Cadence Design Systems Inc. "This is evidence of our strategy to provide differentiated design IP, through deep collaboration with world class third-party IP providers."

Cadence will begin selling Rambus RaSer serial link IP solutions which includes a family of backplane serial interfaces, Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet PHYs, XAUI and double-XAUI serial interfaces, PCI Express* and Turbo PCI Express PHYs, 1, 2 & 4 Gbps Fibre Channel and SONET/SDH PHYs, and 5-10 Gbps high-speed serial interfaces. These solutions currently support all major foundry processes ranging from 180nm to 90nm. The RaSer family offers designers a scalable serial link architecture that addresses current and future serial link applications requiring the highest bandwidth and channel count on a single chip.

For more information about Cadence EDA solutions and design services, go to http://www.cadence.com   Additional information on the Rambus RaSer family of serial link solutions can be found at http://www.rambus.com/raser

 

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