The company's principal activity is to provide design and implementation software that enables chip designers to reduce the time to design and produce complex integrated circuits used in the communications, computing, consumer electronics, networking and semiconductor industries. the company's blast fusion and blast chip products utilize a new methodology for complex, deep submicron chip design that combines traditionally separate logic design and physical design processes into an multilink, sun microsystems and toshiba. the group operates in the united states, europe and japan. design and implementation software product accounted for 82% of fiscal 2002 revenues; Software maintenance and consulting, 18% and analysis and verification software products, nominal.