SANTA CLARA, Calif.Cadence Design Systems Inc., Mentor Graphics Corp. and Sequence Design Inc. were among the EDA vendors honored Tuesday (Feb. 3) as winners of the 2009 DesignVision Awards presented by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) at the DesignCon event here.
Mentor won in the IC design tools category for its Olympus-SoC parallel timing analysis and optimization tool, while Sequence's PowerArtist picked up the award in the design verification tools category.
In the semiconductor IP category, Cadence took home the award for its ChipEstimate.com IP ecosystem.
Other winners included: Molex Inc. for the Impact Backplane Connector System, PCB Matrix for the Symbol Wizard, Xilinx Inc. for the Virtex-5 TXT FPGA platform, Signal Integrity Software (SiSoft) for the Quantum Channel Designer and SyntheSys Research Inc. for the DPP 12500A-4T.