September 9, 2003 – Cadence Design Systems and CoWare Inc., both of San Jose, CA, have agreed to jointly develop and market system-on-chip efforts based on the SystemC standard of system-to-silicon-design.

The deal involves combining CoWare’s ConvergenSC and LISATek system-level design products and Cadence’s Incisive verification platform. Cadence will also place an equity investment in CoWare.