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JAZZ SEMICONDUCTOR TEAMS WITH CADENCE ON SUPPORT FOR CADENCE
RF AND AMS DESIGN KITS
Cadence Design Kits Enable Jazz Customers to Streamline Design
Cycles and Achieve Design Success More Rapidly
SAN JOSE and NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., July 23, 2007 -- Cadence
Design Systems, Inc (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic-design
innovation, and Jazz Semiconductor, Inc. (AMEX: JAZ), a leader in
specialty RF and Analog foundry solutions, today announced silicon
validation collaboration on the Cadence® Radio Frequency (RF)
Design Methodology and Analog Mixed-Signal (AMS) Methodology Kits.
Jazz supports the Cadence application-specific design and methodology
kits based on the Cadence Virtuoso® custom design platform (both
IC 6.1 and IC 5.1.41 releases). By supporting both the RF and AMS
Kits, joint customers have access to RF, analog and digital design
technology to help them streamline the design of complex mixed-signal
chips.
Jazz's Analog-Mixed-Signal Process Design Kits (JAMS PDKs), based
on its 0.18-micron Silicon Germanium (SiGe) process (SBC18), now
support the Cadence technology and usage models prescribed in the
Cadence application-specific kits with the intent to extend the
collaboration to the Jazz SiGe 0.13-micron (SBL13 and SBC13) process
family. The Cadence Kits initiative provides support for Cadence
tools and flows and serves as an excellent vehicle which helps align
the entire design team for a streamlined design cycle and faster
time-to-market. Cadence will help mutual customers overcome key
wireless design challenges by providing them with realistic design
examples for applying tools correctly to design problems. In addition,
Jazz will provide training specific to their PDKs to ensure customers
continue to leverage the Jazz state-of-the-art Design for Manufacturability
(DFM) environment. JAMS PDKs provide customers with several key
advantages including advanced statistical modeling tools and scalable
pcells and models for all components including inductors through
the Jazz Inductor Toolbox (JIT).
Silicon validation collaboration between Jazz and Cadence started
on the Jazz SBC18 process and includes advanced test structures
and correlation, as well as joint customer designs initially focusing
on RF parasitic and substrate-isolation tests. The Cadence RF Design
and AMS Methodology Kits act as vehicles to significantly tighten
the design team, tools and foundry relationship, helping to identify
issues prior to chip completion.
"As a leading foundry for RF and analog integrated circuits,
Jazz believes the Cadence RF Design and AMS Methodology Kits are
a great vehicle for helping customers successfully implement their
most complex designs," said Marco Racanelli, vice president
of technology and engineering at Jazz Semiconductor. "With
this collaboration, RF and analog chip designers will have the necessary
tools, PDK, and standard cell-library enablement to achieve shorter,
more predictable design cycles by ensuring that silicon performance
matches design intent for complex mixed-signal applications."
"We are excited to work with Jazz on a key effort to help
customers in the RF and analog mixed-signal marketplace to improve
the quality and predictability of their complex advanced devices,"
said Craig Johnson, corporate vice president for Marketing and Strategy
at Cadence. "With the combination of Cadence RF Design and
AMS Methodology Kits and Jazz's PDKs, our mutual customers greatly
increase their chances of achieving first-silicon success."
Cadence Kits
Cadence Kits enable IC designers to accelerate technology-specific
product development and address design challenges in EDA technology
segments such as analog mixed signal, system-in-package, coverage-driven
functional verification, and radio frequency integrated circuits.
The Cadence Kits approach allows companies to quickly ramp up design
infrastructures and achieve shorter, more predictable design cycles
while focusing design resources on differentiation.
Cadence Kits also include up to five days of applicability consulting
consisting of expert-led application of the Kits to specific customer-design
challenges. As part of the collaboration, Jazz will join the applicability
consulting for joint customers.
About Jazz Semiconductor
Jazz Semiconductor®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jazz Technologies™,
Inc. (AMEX: JAZ), is an independent wafer foundry primarily focused
on specialty CMOS process technologies, including High Voltage CMOS,
SiGe BiCMOS and RFCMOS for the manufacture of highly integrated
analog and mixed-signal semiconductor devices. The company's specialty
process technologies are designed for customers who seek to produce
analog and mixed-signal semiconductor devices that are smaller and
more highly integrated, power-efficient, feature-rich and cost-effective
than those produced using standard process technologies. Jazz customers
target the wireless and high-speed wireline communications, consumer
electronics, automotive and industrial end markets. Jazz executive
offices and its U.S. wafer fabrication facilities are located in
Newport Beach, CA. Jazz Semiconductor also has engineering, manufacturing,
and sales support in Shanghai, China. For more information, please
visit www.jazzsemi.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. Cadence reported 2006 revenues of approximately $1.5 billion,
and has approximately 5,200 employees. 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.
Forward-Looking Statements
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meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
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and consequences, including any expected benefits, could differ
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and you should not place any undue reliance on such forward looking
statements. Factors that could cause actual performance to differ
from these forward-looking statements include the risks and uncertainties
disclosed in Jazz Technologies' filings with the SEC. Jazz Technologies'
filings with the SEC are accessible on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made.
Jazz Technologies assumes no obligation to update forward-looking
statements.
Cadence and Virtuoso are registered trademarks, and the Cadence
logo is a trademark of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in the U.S.
and other countries. All other marks are properties of their respective
holders.
Cadence Company Contact
Doron Aronson
408-428-4404
doron@cadence.com
Jazz Company Contact
Melinda Jarrell
949/435-8181
melinda.jarrell@jazzsemi.com
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