(Cadence for those who don&#x27;t know are basically the equivalent of SolidWorks for <i>anything</i> in EE. They are the only company (<i>maybe</i> Synopsis or Mentor, but I think there are a few holes here and there) on the planet that lets you go from designing something as simple and low level as an analog jellybean op-amp (with state of the art EM and S-param simulation) and verification, to RTL design (full power simulation and everything), to piecing together TSMC[edit: learn2proof-read, self]-based fab designs on their 28nm processes (ASICs or SoCs), to laying out boards at the Altium level. You&#x27;re paying around 100k&#x2F;yr&#x2F;seat for all this but if you&#x27;re actually using the whole feature set it&#x27;s worth every cent.<p>Other than Solidworks (which has everything from industrial machining stock cold-rolled steel and the finite-element analysis of your components all the way to computational fluid dynamics of anything your engineering heart could desire) I&#x27;ve never seen a company cover such an industry so thoroughly, so well[1].)<p>[1] Maybeeee Adobe has equal coverage re: for vector work with Illustrator&#x2F;image manipulation with PS&#x2F;page layout and typesetting with PageMaker&#x2F;Indesign and doing post on Video with After Effects and such. And I don&#x27;t think anyone would disagree, the degree of complexity for this genre of software is on a different tier.<p>edit: Haha. Confused Cadence <i>Design</i> Systems with Cadence <i>Research</i> Systems. Thanks for correcting me. Mea culpa. Keeping this up just for continuity sake. Viva la Scheme though! Have an upvote, @beering ;)