Cadence and Sun collaborates

Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Cadence is the first electronic-design-automation (EDA) technology vendor to provide broad support across its product lines for the SolarisTM 10 Operating System (OS) for AMD OpteronTM and Sun UltraSPARC(r) processor-powered Sun FireTM clients and servers. In addition, the companies have extended their long standing business relationship with the signing of a multi-year contract for Cadence products and services, and agreed to develop additional solutions that address design challenges at 90 nanometres and beyond. Cadence will be supporting both desktop and server applications from their EDA product line for integrated circuits. With this support, Cadence will offer over sixty applications on four different platforms for the Solaris 10 OS.