M&A Deal Summary

Avant! Acquires Datalink Far East

On November 24, 1997, Avant! acquired distribution company Datalink Far East

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Avant!’s 1st transaction in the Distribution sector.
  • This is Avant!’s 1st transaction in Japan.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 1997-11-24
Target Datalink Far East
Sector Distribution
Buyer(s) Avant!
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Datalink Far East

Taiwan, Japan
Datalink Far East is a distribution company. Datalink is crucial to serve the fast-growing EDA customer base in the Greater China region.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Avant!

Fremont,, California, United States

Category Company
Sector Software
Employees1,500
DESCRIPTION

Avant! Corporation was an electronic design automation software company that spent its life in litigation with Cadence over the theft of code. Avant! concentrated on the back-end of the flow including physical design, parasitic extraction, verification, flow development, and library development services.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 12
Sector: Distribution M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 12
Country: Japan M&A 1 of 1
Year: 1997 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1997-08-25 COMPASS Design Automation

San Jose, California, United States

COMPASS Design Automation is a provider of EDA tools and libraries for the design of deep-submicron ASICs and ASSPs. The company supplies products in four focus areas including formal verification, floorplanning, place and route and physical libraries.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1998-01-01 Technology Modeling Associates

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Technology Modeling Associates is a provider of physical simulation software to support integrated circuit design and manufacturing.

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