San Jose, Calif. - Artisan Components Inc. has joined the InSequence Technology Partner Program of Sequence Design Inc., a move that had been encouraged by customers of both companies.Vic Kulkarni, president and CEO of Sequence, a power and signal integrity tool vendor, said the collaboration will ensure users of Sequence's PowerTheater RTL tool that the power-related properties of cells in Artisan's dual-threshold libraries are properly characterized.Piyush Sancheti, product marketing director for power integrity products at Sequence (www.sequencedesign.com), said the companies collaborated on coverage and characterization methodology. Coverage estimates are now available for the Artisan library cells, he said.

Jim Hogan, vice president of business development at Artisan (www.artisan.com), said that the proper power characterization of cells is particularly important to users of customer-owned tooling, who generally use Artisan's libraries "right out of the box."

"This collaboration is proactive in that we are addressing the power issues before the bulk of customers really move to the 90-nm node," Hogan said.

About Sequence

Sequence Design, Inc. enables system-on-chip designers to bring higher-performance and lower-power integrated circuits quickly to fabrication. Sequence's power and signal integrity software give its more than 100 customers the competitive advantage they need to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer design.

Sequence has worldwide development and field service operations. The company was recently named by Reed Electronics as one of the top 50 companies to watch in the electronics industry. Sequence is privately held. Sequence is a member of Cadence Design Systems' Connections^(TM) and Mentor Graphics' Open Door^(TM) partnership programs. Additional information is available at sequencedesign.com.