Everybody loves Cadence; can EDA leader sustain the romance?

摘要

Michael J. Fister isn't being cocky; he truly believes the company he shepherds as president and CEO deserved the surprising, though brief, attention it apparently garnered from private-equity investors earlier this year. If companies looking for leveraged-buy-out opportunities were indeed sniffing around Cadence Design Systems Inc.-speculation that Fister, in a recent interview, would neither confirm nor deny-it could be because they saw a lot to like in the top-ranked supplier of electronic design automation hardware and software.