ARM and Cadence Provide Energy-Efficient, Comprehensive Media Components for Mobile Market

Collaboration enables reduced system bandwidth and power requirements while delivering a rich visual experience

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 2, 2015—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, and ARM today announced that under a new agreement, Cadence has licensed the ARM Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC) protocol to enhance the Cadence^® Tensilica^® Image Video Processing (IVP) digital signal processor (DSP) for use with the ARM^® Mali^™ media IP suite. This is intended to provide a broad range of mobile users of ARM and Cadence media IP with significantly reduced system bandwidth and power requirements. In addition, the agreement also allows Cadence Display Transmitter PHY to support the new ARM Mali media IP suite to provide users with a rich visual experience.

The new ARM Mali media IP suite combines the Mali-V550 video accelerator, the Mali-DP550 display processor and Mali-T800 GPU series to deliver a solution of integrated media IP designed to efficiently deliver rich visual content. The Tensilica IVP DSP complements ARM’s GPU and Video IP and is ideal for the complex algorithms in imaging, video and computer vision. Display Transmitter PHY is a physical display IP solution that works with the Mali-DP500 and Mali-DP500 display processors and supports all major display standards required in the mobile and consumer worlds, including MIPI DPI and DSI, eDP and HDMI. Through this collaboration between ARM and Cadence, customers can enjoy an optimized and compelling visual experience out of the box.

“Cadence is a valuable IP ecosystem partner, and our work together enables highly differentiated, power-efficient multimedia solutions across a diverse range of consumer devices,” said Mark Dickinson, general manager, media processing group, ARM. “Our mutual customers can greatly benefit from our collaboration to reduce system bandwidth demands. This can lower system power requirements and accelerate system-level integration.”

“By licensing AFBC, we plan to work with ARM to ensure that Cadence IP works seamlessly with the ARM Mali media suite of IP,” said Steve Roddy, senior group director, Tensilica marketing, at Cadence. “Through our longstanding collaboration with ARM, we’re continuing to deliver innovations that benefit mobile users in high volume markets while keeping energy use as low as possible.”

More information about the Tensilica IVP DSP is available at www.cadence.com/news/TenIVPDSP. More information about the Display Transmitter PHY is available at www.cadence.com/news/DTPHY.

About Cadence

Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today’s integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software, hardware, IP, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products, and services is available at http://www.cadence.com/.

About ARM

ARM is at the heart of the world's most advanced digital products. Our technology enables the creation of new markets and transformation of industries and society. We design scalable, energy efficient-processors and related technologies to deliver the intelligence in applications ranging from sensors to servers, including smartphones, tablets, enterprise infrastructure and the Internet of Things.

Our innovative technology is licensed by ARM Partners who have shipped more than 60 billion systems on chip (SoCs) containing our intellectual property since the company began in 1990. Together with our Connected Community, we are breaking down barriers to innovation for developers, designers and engineers, ensuring a fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies. Learn more and join the conversation at http://community.arm.com.