(September 24, 2007) SAN JOSE, CA— Cadence Design Systems, Inc., announced that NEC Electronics America has adopted Cadence Encounter digital design IC platform to implement their high-performance, low-power ARM11 MPCore multicore processors. The processor reportedly is rated at over 700MHz and built on 90-nm process technology, The success of the dual-core implementation of the device prompted NEC to add the platform as one of its tapeout methodologies-of-choice.