Avanti was a defendant in a long running legal battle with Cadence Design Systems, of which BusinessWeek said "The Avant! case is probably the most dramatic tale of white-collar crime in the history of Silicon Valley."
As of 2010, AWR Corporation's major competitors include the EEsof EDA division of Agilent Technologies, Ansoft Corporation, and Cadence Design Systems.
On July 12 2011 Cadence Design Systems announced that it had acquired Azuro for an undisclosed sum.
Design services are provided using tools from both Mentor Graphics and Cadence Design Systems.
In 1987, it went public on NASDAQ, and in 1988 in a merger with SDA Systems, it became Cadence Design Systems.
He worked in various engineering and management positions at Cisco, Dell, Sasken, Cadence Design Systems, and Sun Microsystems.
From 1989 to 2005 he was a Fellow at Cadence Design Systems during which time he was the principal architect of the Spectre circuit simulation family.
After Helios was sold to Cadence Design Systems, Zaki moved to the US, and urged his brother to join him and set up the company.
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As such it is licensed by over 1500 electronics companies such as Cadence, Ericsson, Lucent, Nokia, Siemens and Synopsys.
Companies such as Cadence, Synopsys and Agility Design Solutions are promoting SystemC as a way to combine high level languages with concurrency models to allow faster design cycles for FPGAs than is possible using traditional HDLs.