The Cadence Connections Program promotes open interoperability in all areas of electronic design including digital, custom IC, analog/ mixed signal, and PCB design. We have made a long-term commitment to work closely with Cadence. To make our leading technologies available to our customers, we jointly analyze, develop, test and optimize the flow of data among our tools. The result of this intensive collaboration is a tightly integrated and tested product that customers can smoothly merge into a Cadence flow, assured of the highest level of built-in operability.