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SAN JOSE, CA – Cadence Design Systems Inc. reported second-quarter revenue fell 32% from last year to $210 million.

Read more: Cadence Still Confident, Despite Q2 Drops

SAN JOSE -- Agilent Technologies has entered into an agreement to acquire Varian Inc. for $1.5 billion in cash.

Read more: Agilent to Buy Varian in $1.5B Deal

AUSTIN, TX – National Instruments (NI) reported second-quarter revenue dropped 28% from last year to $152.2 million. Despite the drop, it still came in above the midpoint of the company’s guidance.

Read more: NI Posts Q2 Losses

THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN and SUNNYVALE, CA – Digi-Key Corp. and Fujitsu Microelectronics America (FMA) have signed a distribution agreement.

Digi-Key will now distribute FMA’s MB95200 series of 8-bit microcontrollers and FMA1127 digital touch-screen controllers.

The MB95200 series has low power requirements and high reliability. Applications include home appliances, electrical tools and consumer healthcare products.

The FMS1127 is the first digital touch-screen sensor IC and was developed for mobile devices including PDAs and mobile phones.

WILSONVILLE, OR – Mentor Graphics Corp. appointed Trident Techlabs as its distributor in India.

Trident will oversee the PCB and ASIC/FPGA product portfolio including: Expedition Enterprise and PADS; ModelSim; Questa and HyperLynx.

The agreement will expand Mentor’s customer base to include Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune.

SAN FRANCISCO – Mentor Graphics CEO Wally Rhines may have coined his own corollary to Moore's Law: The number of transistors produced per electronics engineer increases by four orders of magnitude every 25 years.

Read more: Rhines' Law? Mentor CEO Tackles Design Fallacies