Murray Disman says . . . This same synthesis capability is included in the recently announced Cadence FPGA Studio Series. For Express and Express Plus product users who need increased simulation capability, Cadence is offering tremendous discounts on the FPGA Studio Series Verilog -XL and Affirma NC VHDL desktop simulators. The Cadence offer means that now OrCAD Express and Express Plus customers, on maintenance contracts, can easily upgrade their tools to include the best and latest simulation and synthesis solutions even for the most complex programmable logic design. We also want to reassure those users who prefer to stay with our Express products that we are committed to offering them support.
Maintenance is available at an additional charge.
Cadence seems determined to cut off any contact by its acquired OrCAD customers with Exemplar, now that Exemplar's parent, Mentor Graphics, is placing increased emphasis on servicing the FPGA design community. It is making extremely attractive offers to owners of OrCAD Express to modify their system with Synplicity's synthesis and Cadence's Affirma simulation tools. Mentor is offering a somewhat more sophisticated design system because of the inclusion of Renoir, its graphical front-end interface. Cadence, on the other hand, is offering the well know OrCAD Capture schematic entry package and other features required for board-level system design. Mentor Graphic's FPGA Advantage does not contain a schematic-entry tool, but relies on Renoir for that function.