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88-467: Calma Company , based in Sunnyvale, California , was, between 1965 and 1988, a vendor of digitizers and minicomputer -based graphics systems targeted at the cartographic and electronic, mechanical and architectural design markets. In the electronic area, the company's best known products were GDS (an abbreviation for "Graphic Design System" ), introduced in 1971, and GDS II , introduced in 1978. By

176-1010: A Washington Post report on the use of Cadence and Synopsys technology in the People's Liberation Army 's military-civil fusion efforts, U.S. legislators Michael McCaul and Tom Cotton requested that the United States Department of Commerce tighten controls on the sales of semiconductor manufacturing software. On December 15, 2021, Anirudh Devgan assumed the role of Cadence president & CEO, after having been named Cadence president in 2017. Lip-Bu Tan retired as CEO and became executive chairman. In 2021, Cadence launched an artificial intelligence platform to streamline processor development. Although most of Cadence's customers for decades were "traditional semiconductor firms," around 40% of Cadence's revenue by 2022 came from customers who were "systems" oriented, or seeking products tailored for various industries that utilized chips in

264-469: A public stock offering , was acquired by United Telecommunications , Inc., (UTI) of Kansas City, Missouri , for $ 17 million in stock. Calma became part of UTI's United Computing Systems (UCS) operating unit. UTI took a hands-off approach to managing its acquisition, allowing Calma to continue largely unchanged on its growth path. In 1978, Calma introduced GDS II (pronounced "G-D-S two"), a modernized replacement for GDS. With its 32-bit database, GDS II met

352-507: A radio frequency to millimeter wave design environment for designing 5G / wireless products. AWR is used for communications, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, computer, and consumer electronics. Cadence has a number of digital implementation and signoff tools, including Genus, Innovus, Tempus & Voltus , among others. In 2020, Cadence integrated its Innovus place and route engine and optimizer into Genus Synthesis . Stratus  is Cadence's high-level synthesis tool, and

440-850: A 1.5X performance and 2X capacity improvement over Protium X1. Cadence supplies semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) blocks, covering interface  design, USB , MIPI , ethernet , memory, analog, SoC peripherals, and data plane processing units. Cadence also develops chip verification technologies including simulators and formal verification tools. Cadence develops Tensilica DSP processors for audio, vision, wireless modems, and convolutional neural nets. Tensilica DSP processors IP in 2019 included: Tensilica Vision DSPs for imaging , vision , and AI processing; Tensilica HiFi DSPs for audio processing; Tensilica Fusion DSPs for IoT ; Tensilica ConnX DSPs for radar , lidar , and communications processing; and Tensilica DNA Processor Family for AI acceleration . In 2021, Cadence launched

528-434: A 108,000 square feet (10,000 m) facility near Dublin, Ireland, that had originally been built for Trilogy Systems . The following is quoted from: Calma's computer-aided design and drafting systems (also referred to as interactive graphics systems) are comprised of component hardware modules, electronic interfaces, and software programs. Most of the systems sold are constructed by combining available components to meet

616-522: A central role. Cadence was also increasingly designing customized chips for clients and having them manufactured by third parties such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing , a practice which had become more popular in the face of worldwide chip shortages and shipping issues, according to Reuters . By late 2022, Cadence had clients such as Tesla and Apple Inc. Cadence acquired OpenEye Scientific Software for $ 500 million in September 2022, rebranding

704-970: A consolidated DPS since 1950. In the California State Legislature , Sunnyvale is in the 13th Senate District , represented by Democrat Josh Becker , and in the 24th Assembly District , represented by Democrat Alex Lee . In the United States House of Representatives , Sunnyvale is in California's 17th congressional district , represented by Democrat Ro Khanna . Valid Logic Systems Founded in 1983 in San Jose, California , Cadence Design Systems began as an electronic design automation (EDA) company named Solomon Design Automation (SDA). SDA's cofounders included James Solomon , Richard Newton , and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli . Cadence

792-438: A digitizing device, an interactive cathode ray tube (CRT) display unit, coordinate readouts and a keyboard. The main difference between stations is in the type of digitizing input station used. The Calma digitizer is a backlit 48 by 60 inch table. To digitize analog graphical data directly on computer-compatible medium, the operator of the digitizer manually traces graphical data with a moveable stylus. The graphic tablet has

880-408: A large pen plotter (In later years to faster Electrostatic Plotters) to be visually inspected to confirm that the physical layout properly matched the schematic. Once the layout and schematics final edits were manually checked to confirm their accuracy, the multiple layers of the physical circuitry were sent to a film plotter to create masks for fabrication. The central processing unit consists of

968-423: A minicomputer, a computer console and page printer, a magnetic tape transport and a magnetic disk memory unit. Other optional peripheral devices such as card readers and paper tape punches are also available. These components are interfaced with Calma-designed and manufactured controllers, and integrated into a single unit with system software designed and programmed by Calma. An operator station consists of

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1056-600: A minicomputer-based graphics system built around a digitizer. This effort was spurred by the arrival of Josef Sukonick, a recent MIT math PhD who had become aware of the market potential for such a system for integrated circuit (IC) design through his work at the CAD ( computer-aided design ) group of Fairchild Semiconductor in Sunnyvale, CA. The GDS software system was conceived and, in its initial implementation, almost single-handedly built by Dr. Sukonick. The first GDS system

1144-435: A moving stylus , these layouts were organized in layers, first placing the smaller common and custom circuits, created in a library, then manually traced their interconnecting circuitry on further layers, the completed layout then stored in computer files. Printed Circuit Boards (PCB's) and Small Scale Integrated Circuits (SSIC) were manually traced buy an operator, usually a draftsman or electronic engineer then plotted on

1232-493: A multi-core parallel computing architecture. In 2015, Cadence announced the Palladium Z1 hardware emulation platform, with over 100 million gates per hour compile speed, and greater than 1 MHz execution for billion-gate designs. which was based on emulation technology from Cadence's 1998 acquisition of Quickturn. Cadence announced Palladium Z2 in 2021, claiming a 1.5X performance and 2X capacity improvement over

1320-502: A new chip-making process that laid wires diagonally as well as horizontally and vertically, arguing it would make its designs more efficient. In June 2007, Cadence had a market value of around $ 6.4 billion. That year, Cadence was rumored to be in talks with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Blackstone Group regarding a possible sale of the company. Cadence withdrew a $ 1.6 billion offer to purchase Mentor Graphics in 2008. Also that year, Cadence's board appointed Lip-Bu Tan as acting CEO, after

1408-725: A number of ground-floor businesses, and the lawsuit against Wells Fargo was resolved in the bank's favor. The development was sold to Sares Regis in late 2016. Redwood Square reopened as a park in 2017. Many apartments are occupied, and more are being completed in 2020. A Whole Foods Market and AMC Theatres multiplex opened in October 2020. In the 2010s, Sunnyvale became home to operations from numerous major technology companies including Apple , LinkedIn (now headquartered in Sunnyvale), Google , Amazon , Meta , Walmart Labs , and 23andMe . Google announced major development plans in

1496-422: A number of technologies for creating custom integrated circuits. For example, its  Virtuoso Platform , later renamed Virtuoso Studio, incorporates tools for designing full-custom integrated circuits . In 2019, Cadence introduced its Spectre X parallel circuit simulator, so that users could distribute time- and frequency-domain simulations across hundreds of CPUs for speed. Cadence also developed AWR ,

1584-454: A population of 155,805. The population density was 6,596 inhabitants per square mile (2,547/km ). The racial makeup of Sunnyvale was 46,551 (29.9%) White , 2,228 (1.4%) African American , 1,081 (0.7%) Native American , 77,842 (49.9%) Asian , 491 (0.3%) Pacific Islander , 14,181 (9.1%) from other races , and 13,431 (8.6%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 25,372 persons (16.3%). Non-Hispanic Whites were 27.8% of

1672-491: A population of 155,860 residents. In November 2009, previously closed portions of the main streets in downtown Sunnyvale were reopened as part of the ongoing downtown redevelopment of the Sunnyvale Town Center mall, marking the first time in over three decades that those street blocks have been open to vehicle and pedestrian traffic. Part of the project involved building new apartment buildings, however during

1760-481: A previously existing partnership of the same name. The company took its name from its founders, Cal vin and Ir ma Louise Hefte. In 1965 Calma introduced the Calma Digitizer, a device consisting of a table-like surface with constrained cursor, whereby an operator could enter coordinate data from a paper drawing and have it turned into computer readable form. In about 1969, the company undertook to develop

1848-625: A sale completed in January 1989. Prime had just completed a hostile take-over of Computervision. Prime basically merged the Calma Mechanical and AEC product lines with Computervision . Computervision, including the Dimension III product, was acquired by Parametric Technology Corporation in 1998. The following data on sales, earnings, and employee count are drawn from a number of sources. Financial data 1973–1977 are from. At

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1936-413: A set of colored lights as a response. The operator typed a command, and if the green light came on, it was successful. GDSII introduced an actual Command Line Interface (CLI), where the user typed commands that were echoed back to the screen. GDS systems had no text screen at all, just a "green-screen" oscilloscope type display. GDSII introduced a text display, using a regular text terminal in addition to

2024-495: A smaller surface and is operated with an electromechanical graphic pen and were used primary to edit an electronic layout once it was digitized. The digitizing input station is linked by system software to the CRT display, which allows an almost instantaneous display of any segment of the source drawing or a graphic element from the library. The CRT display also has windowing and magnification capability. An alphanumeric keyboard

2112-515: Is a 3D field solver for electromagnetic analysis, that uses distributed adaptive meshing to partition jobs across multiple cores. In September 2019, Cadence announced Celsius , a parallel architecture thermal solver that uses finite element analysis for solid structures and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for fluids. Cascade Technologies, Inc includes hi-fidelity CFD solvers for multiphysics analysis of turbulence fluid flow. Acquired by Cadence from Pointwise in 2021,  Fidelity Pointwise

2200-507: Is a die/package planning & route optimization tool. InspectAR uses augmented reality to map out complicated circuit board electronics for real-time labelling of board schematics . The company has a number of tools for  system analysis . Sigrity has tools for signal, power integrity, and thermal integrity analysis and IC package design. Introduced in April 2019 as part of Cadence's expansion into system analysis,  Clarity

2288-406: Is a verification management tool for tracking the verification process. Cadence announced  Perspec System Verifier  in 2014 for defining and verifying system-level verification scenarios, with Perspec made compatible with the  Accellera Portable Test and Stimulus Standard (PSS) several years later. Introduced in 2017, Cadence's parallel simulator  Xcelium  is based on

2376-763: Is for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) mesh generation. Cadence in 2021 acquired a number of system analysis products from NUMECA, known for software tools used in the automotive, marine, aerospace, and power generation industries. Among the tools were  Fidelity  (formerly known as OMNIS), a computational fluid dynamics (CFD), mesh generation , multi-physics simulation, and optimization product.  Its Cadence Reality digital twin platform creates manipulatable digital models of designs or factories. Cadence Design Systems in February 2024 launched its Cadence Millennium Enterprise Multiphysics Platform , or Millennium M1. The hardware/software combination

2464-408: Is located in a sunny region adjacent to areas with significantly more fog. Sunnyvale continued to grow and in 1904, dried fruit production began. Two years later, Libby, McNeill & Libby , a Chicago meat-packing company, decided to open its first fruit-packing factory in Sunnyvale. Today, a water tower painted to resemble the first Libby's fruit cocktail can label identifies the former site of

2552-454: Is one of the few U.S. cities to have a single unified Department of Public Safety , where all personnel are trained as firefighters , police officers , and EMTs , so that they can respond to an emergency in any of the three roles. The Santa Clara Valley was heavily populated by the indigenous Ohlone people when the Spanish first arrived in the 1770s. However, following the arrival of

2640-611: Is selected from the six city council members by the mayor and city council, serving a one-year term. The city council hires a city manager to run the day-to-day operations of the city government. Sunnyvale is the largest city in the United States that uses a consolidated department of public safety , with sworn officers who are fully cross-trained to perform police , firefighting , and emergency medical services . Officer assignments are rotated annually, with some specialist assignments lasting up to five years. Sunnyvale has had

2728-558: Is used for entering text, scaling information, dimensions and commands, and an optional functional keyboard is available for entering frequently used functions, symbols and macro commands. The output most commonly used in Calma's systems is a graphic plotter. Calma software supports both on and off-line pen and photo plotting devices. Calma's computer-aided design systems are used in a wide variety of applications. To date systems have been sold principally to electronics firms for use in

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2816-485: Is used to create RTL implementations from C , C++ , or SystemC code. Other formal verification and signoff tools include Conformal Equivalence Checker, Joules RTL Power Solution, Quantus Extraction Solution, and Cadence's Modus DFT Software Solution. Cadence has developed a number of formal verification products  for chip design. JasperGold is a formal verification tool, initially introduced in 2003 and upgraded with machine learning in 2019. vManager

2904-531: The Great Recession the property was repossessed by Wells Fargo in 2009; the developer countersued, leaving the project in legal limbo through 2015. The two office buildings are now fully occupied by Uber . Mixed-use developments have been built at the former Town and Country location near the Plaza del Sol just north of Murphy Avenue. By mid 2015, new multistory apartment complexes had opened, including

2992-501: The 'scope screen, and also introduced the first color screens. This ushered in the new method of "online design", where the drafting employees actually sat at the screen and drew the chips. In the older GDS systems, an operator took the mylar drawings and digitized them in. A typical GDSII system in 1980 would have a 300 MB disk, 1-2 MB of memory, using a 16-bit DG minicomputer and up to 4 screens. This cost over $ 500,000 in 1980 dollars. DDM (short for "Design, Drafting, Manufacturing")

3080-578: The 1900s, as "the City of Destiny". Also in 1897, Encinal School opened as the first school in Murphy. Previously, children in the town had to travel to Mountain View for school. The area also became known as Encinal. In 1901, the residents of Murphy were informed they could not use the names Encinal or Murphy for their post office. Sunnyvale was given its current name on March 24, 1901. It was named Sunnyvale as it

3168-528: The 2001 purchase of Avanti by Synopsys , as Synopsys had become their primary market rival. In 2004, Mike Fister became Cadence's new CEO and president, with Ray Bingham becoming chairman. The former chairman, Donald L. Lucas, remained on the Cadence board. Between 2004 and 2007, Cadence purchased four companies, including the software developer Verisity , and in 2006, it spent $ 1 billion in stock buybacks . In 2007, Cadence announced it would be introducing

3256-491: The Cadence digital design flow. In 2022, Cadence introduced the AI platform Optimality Intelligent System Explorer , a system design tool with multiphysics system analysis software. Designed to be compatible with Clarity 3D and SigrityX, Microsoft was an early adopter. In September 2023, Cadence released software called ChipGPT , allowing companies to create custom silicon with assistance from AI. In 2016, Cadence CEO Lip-Bu Tan

3344-552: The Moffett Park area in 2017 adjacent to Moffett Field , with these offices ultimately opening in 2022. In addition, Amazon and Meta began leasing buildings in Sunnyvale in 2017 and 2021, respectively. Sunnyvale is located at 37°22′7.56″N 122°2′13.4″W  /  37.3687667°N 122.037056°W  / 37.3687667; -122.037056 . According to the United States Census Bureau ,

3432-863: The Spaniards, smallpox , measles , and other Old World diseases greatly reduced the Ohlone population. While some of the Ohlone Native Americans died from diseases, others survived and were converted to Christian faith by the Spanish. In 1777, Mission Santa Clara was founded by Franciscan missionary Padre Junipero Serra and was originally located in San Jose (near what is now the San Jose International Airport runway). In 1843, Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas

3520-504: The Tensilica AI Platform to accelerate AI SoC development and improve performances. The company has a number of  printed circuit board (PCB) and packaging technologies for designing circuit boards. Its  Allegro Platform  has tools for co-design of integrated circuits , packages , and PCBs. OrCAD/PSpice has tools for smaller design teams and individual PCB designers. OrbitIO Interconnect Designer

3608-427: The U.S. state of California . Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the north, Moffett Federal Airfield and NASA Ames Research Center to the northwest, Mountain View to the northwest, Los Altos to the southwest, Cupertino to the south, and Santa Clara to the east. Sunnyvale's population was 155,805 at the 2020 census , making it

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3696-749: The United States. In February 2024, Cadence "quietly stepped into the supercomputer business," according to TechRadar , when it unveiled the M1, its own supercomputer designed to run computational fluid dynamics (CFD) while utilizing AI. In June 2024, Cadence purchased BETA CAE Systems. Originally known as a creator of electronic design automation (EDA) software, the company currently develops software, hardware and intellectual property (IP) used to design chips, chiplet -style products, and printed circuit boards , while also selling hardware systems that run its chip design software. It also has tools for "electromagnetics, thermal and computational fluid dynamics in

3784-535: The Z1. The Protium FPGA prototyping platform was introduced in 2014, followed by the Protium S1 in 2017, which was built on Xilinx Virtex UltraScale FPGAs . Protium X1 rack-based prototyping was introduced in 2019, which Cadence claimed supported a 1.2 billion gate SoCs at around 5 MHz. with Palladium S1/X1 and Protium sharing a single compilation flow. In 2021, Protium X2 was announced; Cadence claimed

3872-560: The aircraft manufacturer Lockheed moved its headquarters to Sunnyvale. Since then, numerous high-tech companies have established offices and headquarters in Sunnyvale, including Advanced Micro Devices and Yahoo . The first prototype of Atari 's coin-operated Pong , the first successful video game, was installed in Sunnyvale in August 1972 in a bar named Andy Capp's Tavern, now Rooster T. Feathers. Atari's headquarters were located at 1196 Borregas Avenue in north Sunnyvale. By 2002,

3960-616: The area. Martin Murphy Jr. came to California with his father as part of the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party in 1844. In 1850, Martin Murphy Jr. bought a piece of Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas for $ 12,500. Murphy established a wheat farm and ranch named Bay View. Murphy had the first wood-frame house in Santa Clara County ; it was shipped from New England . The house was demolished in 1961 but

4048-433: The changing nature of the market and the inherent difficulty of keeping up with rapidly changing technology, these ambitions went largely unrealized. Beginning in 1988, GE sold Calma. The electronic side of the business was sold to Valid Logic Systems in April 1988. (Valid in turn was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 1991). The remainder of the business (mechanical/architectural) was acquired by Prime Computer in

4136-506: The city has a total area of 22.7 sq mi (58.8 km ), of which, 22.0 sq mi (56.9 km ) of it is land and 0.69 sq mi (1.8 km ) of it (3.09%) is water. Its elevation is 130 feet above sea level. Like most of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sunnyvale has a Mediterranean climate ( Köppen Csb ), with cool, moist winters and warm, very dry summers. Average daytime summer temperatures are in

4224-515: The city's 2023 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: The City of Sunnyvale uses the council–manager form of government, with a city council consisting of seven members elected to fill individual seats. Starting in November 2020, the mayor is directly elected to a four-year term in a city-wide election. The six council members are elected to four year terms from six districts in even-year elections. The vice-mayor

4312-405: The company OpenEye Cadence Molecular Sciences and making it into a business unit. OpenEye signed Pfizer as a software client in October 2023. Cadence purchased various businesses from Rambus in 2023. As of September 2023, Cadence was "looking into" applying for funding from the $ 52 billion CHIPS and Science Act , passed in 2022 bring more of the international semiconductor supply chain into

4400-402: The company acquired Gateway Design Automation for $ 72 million. In 1990 it acquired Automated Systems Inc., and in doing so added "board design to its existing line of chip design software." In 1991, Cadence acquired its rival Valid Logic Systems for around $ 200 million, its biggest acquisition yet. The revenues of the combined company were $ 390 million, making Cadence "the largest provider of

4488-458: The computer system, but to the format itself. Vendors of electronic design automation software often use the phrase "from RTL to GDSII" to imply that their system will take users from a high-level logic design to a completed integrated circuit layout ready for delivery to the mask vendor. In the mechanical area, the DDM (for "Design Drafting and Manufacturing") product was introduced in 1977. It

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4576-580: The design of integrated circuits, printed circuit boards and electrical schematics; to governmental agencies and public utilities for use in cartographic applications; and to manufacturing companies for use in the design of mechanical parts and systems. For an overview of the GDS II system as it was 1981, see. Some scanned product documents can be found at and. The original GDS system used Data General mini-computers to digitize and assemble chip designs. The UI consisted of simple one or two letter commands, and

4664-617: The employee count grew. In 1979, the R&;D department moved to a building at 212 Gibraltar Drive (corner of Borregas Avenue) in the Moffett Park area of Sunnyvale. Other buildings were added in the area. In 1980 a new 210,000 square feet (19,500 m) manufacturing facility was opened in Milpitas, California . In 1982 a new 109,000-square-foot (10,100 m) headquarters was opened in Santa Clara, California . In 1984 Calma bought

4752-462: The end of the 1970s, Calma systems were installed in virtually every major semiconductor manufacturing company. The external format of the GDS II database, known as GDS II Stream Format , became a de facto standard for the interchange of IC mask information. The use of this format persisted into the 21st century, long after the demise of the GDS II computer system. In the integrated circuit industry jargon of 2008, "GDS II" referred no longer to

4840-597: The factory. Also in 1906, the Joshua Hendy Iron Works relocated from San Francisco to Sunnyvale after the company's building was destroyed by fire after the 1906 earthquake. The ironworks was the first non-agricultural industry in the town. The company later switched from producing mining equipment to other products such as marine steam engines . In 1912, the residents of Sunnyvale voted to incorporate, and Sunnyvale became an official city. Fremont High School first opened in 1923. The year 2023 marked

4928-609: The farm labor in Santa Clara County. This percentage reduced over time after the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed. In the following decade, the 1890s, many immigrants from Italy , the Azores , Portugal , and Japan arrived to work in the orchards. In 1897, Walter Everett Crossman bought 200 acres (810,000 m ) and began selling real estate. He advertised the area as "Beautiful Murphy" and later, in

5016-581: The few remaining orchards had been replaced with homes and shops. However, there are still city-owned orchards, such as the Heritage Orchard next to the Sunnyvale Community Center. In 1979, an indoor mall called Sunnyvale Town Center opened in what used to be a traditional downtown shopping district. After years of successful operation, the mall started to decline in the 1990s. After numerous changes in plans and ownership,

5104-547: The first commercial fruit cannery in the county. Fruit agriculture for canning soon became a major industry in the county. The invention of the refrigerated rail car further increased the viability of an economy based upon fruit. The fruit orchards became so prevalent that in 1886, the San Jose Board of Trade called Santa Clara County the "Garden of the World". In the 1880s, Chinese workers made up roughly one third of

5192-408: The front. Somewhat later, an additional building to the rear (on San Gabriel Drive) was leased as a manufacturing/shipping area, bringing total square footage to 35,000. In February 1978, the company relocated to a 67,000-square-foot (6,200 m) single-story building at 527 Lakeside Drive in Sunnyvale, part of the newly developed Oakmead Village industrial park. Additional buildings were added as

5280-499: The high 70s, and during the winter, average daytime high temperatures rarely stay below 50 °F (10 °C). Snowfall is rare, but on January 21, 1962, and February 5, 1976, measurable snowfall occurred in Sunnyvale and most of the San Francisco Bay Area . Sunnyvale was briefly hit by tornadoes in 1951 and 1998, but otherwise they are extremely rare. The 2020 United States census reported that Sunnyvale had

5368-458: The high-tech electronics, aerospace and defense and automotive sectors," and according to Investor's Business Daily in 2023, it specializes in products for fields such as "artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud computing, 3D technology, and AI-enabled big data analytics." Among market applications are "hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, mobile, aerospace, consumer, industrial and health care." The company develops

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5456-487: The mall was demolished in 2007. Sunnyvale celebrated its one-hundredth anniversary on August 25, 2012. According to the Bay Area Census, there was a total population of 130,885 people in households and 875 people in group quarters in 2000. In 2023, the city has a population of 145,302 residents; however, the city's population is declining at a rate of −6.77% since the 2020 census, which claimed that Sunnyvale had

5544-477: The need for greater capacity and resolution in IC designs. GDS II quickly replaced GDS as the data entry system of choice for many IC design groups. By late 1980, there were 171 installed GDS II systems. In December 1980, the sale of Calma by UTI to General Electric (GE) was announced. The sale price was $ 110 million, with an additional $ 60 million contingent on Calma's profits over the next five years. The acquisition

5632-564: The population in 2020, compared to 74.7% in 1980. There were 59,567 households, out of which 16,133 (27%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 31,557 (53.0%) were married opposite-sex couples living together, 4,069 (6.8%) had a female householder with no husband present, 2,908 (4.9%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 3,382 (5.7%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 657 (1.1%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 14,970 households (25.1%) were made up of individuals, and 5.7% had someone living alone who

5720-629: The requirements of the customers' specific design or drafting application. Calma's systems enable customers to automate a wide variety of design and manufacturing processes which have previously been performed manually. The primary hardware components of a system are a central processing unit , operator stations and plotter outputs. Their GDS I and II software operated on Data General Corporation's Nova and Eclipse line of 16 bit mini Computers. Sketches or layouts of electronic system were first manually drawn on mylar or paper to scale and were placed on large backlit 48 by 60 inch table digitizers. Using

5808-656: The resignation of Mike Fister; Tan had served on the Cadence board of directors since 2004. In January 2009, the board of directors of Cadence voted unanimously to confirm Lip-Bu Tan as president and CEO. In 2011, it purchased Altos Design Automation . Subsequent notable acquisitions included Cosmic Circuits and Tensilica in 2013, Forte Design Systems in 2014, and the AWR Corporation in 2019. Cadence had 9,300 employees and annual revenue of $ 3 billion in 2021. Most of its revenue came from licensing its software and intellectual property. In April 2021, following

5896-548: The school's 100 year anniversary. In 1924, Edwina Benner was elected to her first term as mayor of Sunnyvale. She was the second female mayor in the history of the state of California . In 1930, Congress decided to place the West Coast dirigible base in Sunnyvale after "buying" the 1,000-acre (4.0 km ) parcel of farmland bordering the San Francisco Bay from the city for $ 1. This naval airfield

5984-475: The second most populous city in the county (after San Jose ) and the seventh most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area . As one of the major cities that make up California's high-tech area known as Silicon Valley , Sunnyvale is the birthplace of the video game industry, former location of Atari headquarters. Many technology companies are headquartered in Sunnyvale and many more operate there, including several aerospace/defense companies. Sunnyvale

6072-666: The software used by electronic engineers to design computer chips and circuit boards," according to the New York Times. In 1996, Cadence acquired High Level Design Systems, at which point Cadence had 3,300 employees and $ 742 million in annual revenue. Following the resignation of Cadence's original CEO Joe Costello in 1997, Jack Harding was appointed CEO. Ray Bingham was named CEO in 1999. Cadence purchased Ambit Design Systems for $ 260 million, which made tools for system-on-a-chip technology, in 1998, and OrCAD Systems in 1999. After acquiring Quickturn Design in 1999, Cadence

6160-592: The time of the 1978 acquisition by UTI, the largest shareholder was Calma board chairman Ronald D. Cone. He held 321,706 of Calma's 635,266 outstanding shares. In February 1977, Computervision (CV) filed suit in federal court over Calma's hiring of a group of 5 employees from CV in San Diego. (This group developed Calma's DDM product.) The CV suit against Calma and the five employees alleged breach of competition, breach of non-competition agreements , and interference with contractual relations. This draining lawsuit

6248-423: The war effort. As the defense industry grew, a shortage of workers in the farm industry was created. Immigrants from Mexico came to Sunnyvale to fill this void of workers. Following the war, the fruit orchards and sweetcorn farms were cleared to build homes, factories and offices. In 1950 the volunteer fire department and the paid police department were combined into the department of public safety. In 1956,

6336-566: Was 35.2 years. For every 100 females, there were 109.3 males. There were 63,065 housing units, of which 45.8% were owner-occupied, and 54.2% were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.1%; the rental vacancy rate was 5.3%. 72,485 people (46.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 80,220 people (51.5%) lived in rental housing units. Companies based in Sunnyvale include Infinera , Fortinet , Intuitive Surgical , Juniper Networks , LinkedIn , Proofpoint, Inc. , Matterport, Inc. , and Trimble Inc. According to

6424-422: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54. There were 38,750 families (65.0% of all households); the average family size was 3.09. The population was spread out, with 32,453 people (20.8%) under the age of 18, 9,641 people (6.2%) aged 18 to 24, 57,977 people (37.2%) aged 25 to 44, 34,330 people (22.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 20,683 people (13.2%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

6512-457: Was a 3-dimensional wireframe computer-aided design application. In the mid-1980s, it was one of the top ten selling CAD packages on the market. By 2006, DDM continued to be supported by Parametric Technology Corporation [1] as "Dimension III". The General Motors Central Foundry Division (GM-CFD) had applied DDM to the design of castings and tooling for automotive components such as engine blocks , cylinder heads and steering knuckles . DDM

6600-512: Was also the home to Onizuka Air Force Station , often referred to as "the Blue Cube" because of the color and shape of its windowless main building. The facility, previously known as Sunnyvale Air Force Station, was named for the deceased Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka . It served as an artificial satellite control facility of the U.S. military until August 2010 and has since been decommissioned and demolished. Sunnyvale

6688-540: Was awarded the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award by the Global Semiconductor Alliance. In 2019, Investor's Business Daily ranked Cadence Design Systems #5 on its 50 Best Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Companies list. In 2020, Cadence ranked #45 on People Magazine's Companies that Care list. Fortune Magazine named Cadence to its 100 Best Companies to Work For list for

6776-439: Was completed on April 1, 1981. GE had grander designs for Calma than had UTI. In addition to the hope of maintaining dominance in the IC market, GE aimed for Calma to expand in the architectural, engineering, manufacturing and construction markets – "factory of the future" was a prominent slogan. Due partly to a mass exodus of talent after GE moved its own people into key management positions, partly due to excessive expectations,

6864-467: Was described as a "white knight" for the act by the New York Times , as Quickturn had been subject to a hostile takeover by Cadence's rival Mentor Graphics . Under urging by executives such as Jim Hogan and executive vice president Penny Herscher , between 2001 and 2003, Cadence purchased a number of implementation tools through acquisition, such as Silicon Perspective, Verplex, and Celestry Design . The acquisitions were apparently in part to counter

6952-509: Was designed for creating digital twins. It draws from Cadence's older Fidelity CFD suite. Cadence's OpenEye Scientific division has computational molecular modeling and simulation software used by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for purposes such as drug discovery and antibody discovery. The Orion is OpenEye's software-as-a-service platform. OpenEye Scientific has its headquarters in Santa Fe , New Mexico. The company

7040-482: Was finally settled out of court in October 1979. In the UTI acquisition of Calma in 1978, 5% of the newly issued stock was held in escrow as a reserve pending the outcome of this litigation. As early as 1970, Calma occupied a building at 707 Kifer Road in Sunnyvale. Roughly 10,000 square feet (900 m), the building consisted of a large warehouse/manufacturing area in the rear, with an office area of about 10 offices in

7128-527: Was formed by the merger of SDA and ECAD . A public company, ECAD had been co-founded by Ping Chao, Glen Antle, and Paul Huang in 1982. Cadence Design Systems was officially formed through SDA and ECAD's 1988 merger, with Joseph Costello was appointed both CEO and president of the newly combined company. After the merger, Cadence began trading on the New York Stock Exchange and Costello oversaw further mergers and acquisitions. In 1989,

7216-462: Was granted to Francisco Estrada and his wife Inez Castro. Portions of the land given in this grant later developed into the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale. Two years later, in 1844, another land grant was provided to Lupe Yñigo, one of the few Native Americans to hold land grants. His land grant was first called Rancho Posolmi , named in honor of a village of the Ohlone that once stood in

7304-404: Was increasingly incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023, according to Reuters , by "providing tools to design chips for AI" as well as by "adding AI into its own software to help in the complex process of designing chips." Cerebrus was released in 2021, and is a  machine learning -based chip which utilizes  reinforcement learning  and is meant to automatically optimize

7392-469: Was later extended, under the name "Dimension III", to address the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) market. By 1983, these two products together accounted for 60% of Calma's revenue. Dimension III continued to be used as late as the late 1990s. Calma Company was incorporated in California on November 13, 1963. Its initial business was as a product distributor, continuing the business of

7480-555: Was later renamed Naval Air Station Moffett and then Moffett Federal Airfield and is commonly called Moffett Field. In 1939, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the forerunner of NASA ) began research at Ames Laboratory . During World War II, the war economy began a change from the fruit industry to the high-tech industry in Santa Clara County. The Joshua Hendy Iron Works built marine steam engines, naval guns and rocket launchers to aid in

7568-665: Was reconstructed in 2008 as the Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum . When he died in 1884, his land was divided among his heirs. In 1860, The San Francisco and San Jose Rail Road was allowed to lay tracks on Bay View and established Murphy Station. Lawrence Station was later established on the southern edge of Bay View. In the 1870s, small fruit orchards replaced many large wheat farms, because wheat farming turned uneconomical due to county and property tax laws, imports and soil degradation . In 1871, Dr. James M. Dawson and his wife Eloise (née Jones) established

7656-574: Was run on Calma's proprietary dual-monitor workstation hardware connected to Data General Nova and later Digital VAX 11/780 -series computers. GM-CFD had DDM installations in Saginaw, MI , Pontiac, MI , Defiance, OH , Bedford, IN , Danville, IL and Massena, NY . Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ( / ˈ s ʌ n i v eɪ l , v əl / ) is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in

7744-420: Was shipped in late 1971 to Intel . The growth of sales of GDS paralleled that of the nascent integrated circuit industry. By August 1976 there were 121 GDS systems installed at 70 companies including many Fortune 500 corporations including Motorola , International Telephone & Telegraph , Fairchild Semiconductor , and others. Of these, 43 were installed outside the U.S. In 1978, Calma, which never had

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