M&A Deal Summary

Cadence Acquires Integrated Measurements Systems

On November 1, 2001, Cadence acquired software company Integrated Measurements Systems from Valid Logic Systems

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Cadence’s 11th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Cadence’s 13th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Cadence’s 2nd transaction in Oregon.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2001-11-01
Target Integrated Measurements Systems
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Cadence
Sellers(s) Valid Logic Systems
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Integrated Measurements Systems

Beaverton,, Oregon, United States
Integrated Measurements Systems designs, manufactures, markets and services a family of engineering test stations and related test software, including the Logic Master XL Test Station and the ATS Blazer Test Station, used to test and measure complex electronic devices.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Cadence

San Jose, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1987
Sector Software
Employees12,700
Revenue 4.6B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Cadence Design Systems' corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
Entrance to Cadence Design Systems' corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.

Cadence develops system design enablement solutions that customers use to design whole electronics systems, increasingly small and complex integrated circuits, and electronic devices. Cadence's solutions are designed to help customers reduce the time to bring an electronics system, IC, or electronic device to market and to reduce their design, development, and manufacturing costs. Cadence's product offerings include electronic design automation, software, emulation and prototyping hardware, system interconnect and analysis, and categories of intellectual property referred to as verification IP and design IP. Cadence was founded in 1987 and is based in San Jose, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 14 of 54
Sector: Software M&A 11 of 36
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 5
State: Oregon M&A 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 13 of 45
Year: 2001 M&A 2 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2001-02-28 CadMos Design Technology

San Jose,, California, United States

The CadMOS noise-analysis solutions were targeted at both digital and mixed signal designers working in microprocessors, DRAMs, mixed-signal SOC, and ASICs.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2001-12-20 Silicon Perspective

Santa Clara,, California, United States

Silicon Perspective offeres full-chip silicon virtual prototypes that provided design closure throughout the design cycle. Silicon Perspective served application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), customer owned tooling (COT), and system on chip (SoC) marketplaces.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Valid Logic Systems

San Jose,, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1981
Sector Semiconductors
DESCRIPTION

Valid Logic Systems is a Supplier of gate-level descign system. Company manufactures printed circuit board design tools.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Oregon M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2001 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1989-01-01 Analog Design Tools

San Jose, California, United States

Analog Design Tools engages in the development and marketing of Analog Workbench, the system was almost an anomaly in a universe of CAE equipment and software geared for digital logic designers. Instead of concentrating on logic gates, the system simulated analog IC and component performance with voltages, currents, and waveforms.

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