Rick Nelson

DFM gains emphasis with Cadence purchase
May 31, 2006

Cadence Design Systems has purchased DFM start-up Praesagus (Campbell, CA), according to Michael Santarini, senior editor at sibling publication EDN. In the acquisition, he reports, Cadence gains the company’s physics-based interconnect-thickness-variation modeling technology, and he predicts that this low-key $25.8 million acquisition may be "just the quiet beginning of a DFM-start-up-acquisition binge in the EDA sector."

Ann Steffora Mutschler of Electronic News reported in February on some of the issues driving DFM's importance in "DFM Has Potential to Build Partnerships, But Will It?"

For a look at possible players in a potential DFM acquisition drama, follow the links below to recent coverage:

• TSMC unveils 65-nm data-driven DFM ecosystem
• Stratosphere Solutions takes flight
• Cadence Tunes Mixed-Signal Design with SMIC
• EDA Vendors Roll Out 65nm DFM Support for IBM-Chartered-Samsung Partnership
• Magma Talus targets RTL to tape-out
• Startup Blaze DFM launches with silicon test results
• Synopsys inks deals with Agere, Sony
• Ponte employs model-based analysis to improve yield
• EDA startup Silicon Design Systems enhances interconnect synthesis
• Sigma-C, Mentor make strides in DFM
• UMC unveils integrated DFM software
• Brion unveils full-chip OPC
• Aprio advances incremental OPC strategy
• Mentor expands DFM strategy with YieldAssist

Posted by Rick Nelson on May 31, 2006 | Comments (0)