ADVISORY/Cadence Chief Financial Officer Bill Porter to Present At the Morgan Stanley Semiconductor & Systems Conference

Business Wire, March 3, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...Wednesday (March 5)

Morgan Stanley Semiconductor & Systems Conference

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2003

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN)

WHO:            Bill Porter, senior vice president and CFO of Cadence
                Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN)


WHAT:           Morgan Stanley Semiconductor & Systems Conference
                webcast


WHEN:           The on-demand webcast will be available beginning
                Wednesday, March 5, 2003 at 9:15 a.m. (Pacific) /
                12:15 p.m. (Eastern) and will be posted on the Cadence
                website through Wednesday, April 2 at 5:00 p.m.
                (Pacific).


WHERE:          Webcast access is available at
                http://www.cadence.com/company/investor_relations.

REQUIREMENTS:   Minimum requirements to listen to the webcast include
                at least a 14.4K bps connection to the Internet.