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What did Cadence and HP agree to do?
The companies announced the alliance on July 10, 2000, in San Jose and Palo Alto, California. The EE Times report carrying the announcement was published July 17, 2000. Their stated business purpose was to combine their research and development capabilities to jointly develop, market, and sell EDA solutions for customers worldwide.
The partnership was reciprocal: Cadence was the EDA software provider and would extend platform support, while HP was both a computing-platform partner and a planned major internal user of Cadence tools. The announcement said the companies expected their work to address increasing engineering demands, but did not report subsequent outcomes.
What each company planned to contribute
Cadence: tools, platform support, and infrastructure
- Cadence said it would adopt HP-UX as a preferred product-development and support operating system.
- It planned to support HP-UX on Intel’s 64-bit IA-64 architecture, which the report describes as jointly developed by HP and Intel.
- Cadence planned to increase its use of HP workstations and servers for verification and quality assurance.
- It planned engineering support to make applications available for alpha, beta, and first-customer shipments on HP-UX and HP Precision Architecture (PA)-RISC platforms at the same time as first availability on other UNIX platforms.
HP: platform partnership and internal adoption
- HP selected Cadence as a preferred EDA tools provider for its R&D groups, with particular emphasis on Cadence SP&R.
- HP planned to expand use of SP&R and other Cadence design tools across its R&D organizations worldwide, for work on computing, printing, and digital-imaging products.
What were SP&R, HP-UX, and IA-64?
In the announcement, SP&R means synthesis/place-and-route technology: tools used in the electronic-design process to synthesize a design and arrange and route its components. It was the specific Cadence tool area singled out in HP’s selection, alongside other Cadence design tools.
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HP-UX was HP’s UNIX operating system. IA-64 was Intel’s 64-bit architecture, described in the report as jointly developed with HP. The announcement connected these by saying Cadence would support the HP-UX environment on IA-64. It separately named HP-UX and HP PA-RISC platforms in its plan for simultaneous application availability; these are distinct platform references, not interchangeable names.
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The EE Times account records company plans and executive expectations. It does not verify that every planned deployment or release-support commitment was later completed, nor does it provide commercial terms, named workstation or server models, or release dates beyond the stated simultaneous-availability plan.
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Executives presented the alliance as a response to engineering needs. HP president and CEO Carly Fiorina said, “Cadence and HP will work together to optimize solutions that meet the increasing engineering demands for greater performance and next-generation architectures.” Cadence president and CEO Ray Bingham said, “Customer satisfaction is what drives us also to go beyond products and create new business models and partnerships.” HP Computing Systems president Duane Zitzner said HP would more broadly proliferate Cadence technology in support of HP computing, printing, and digital-imaging products. These statements explain the companies’ rationale; the report supplies no attributable statistics or measured results demonstrating improved performance, quality, or time-to-market.
Source: EE Times, “Cadence and HP to Power Development of Next-Generation Electronic Design Solutions”, dated July 17, 2000, with a July 10 dateline.
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