-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, F/Lh92vREidvc/lK1XsPn0a0lF9broKymixv4yAEeCAj5arF/2ts6wqmuKNBCpVK 5Lym3Ru3/QjDzAjRE4e7qg== 0001209191-04-025446.txt : 20040513 0001209191-04-025446.hdr.sgml : 20040513 20040513124929 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-04-025446 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20040512 FILED AS OF DATE: 20040513 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FISTER MICHAEL J CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001261264 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-10606 FILM NUMBER: 04801970 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2200 MISSION COLLEGE BLVD CITY: SANTA CLARA STATE: CA ZIP: 95052 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000813672 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372] IRS NUMBER: 770148231 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0102 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2655 SEELY ROAD BLDG 5 CITY: SAN JOSE STATE: CA ZIP: 95134 BUSINESS PHONE: 4089431234 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 555 RIVER OAKS PARKWAY CITY: SAN JOSE STATE: CA ZIP: 95134 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ECAD INC /DE/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19880609 3 1 bpa99045_bpa1mf.xml MAIN DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION X0202 3 2004-05-12 0 0000813672 CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC CDN 0001261264 FISTER MICHAEL J 2655 SEELY AVENUE SAN JOSE CA 95134 0 1 0 0 President, CEO No securities beneficially owned 0 D /s/ R.L. Smith McKeithen, Attorney-in-fact for Michael J. Fister 2004-05-12 EX-24 2 ex-24.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY Exhibit 24

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

          I, Michael J. Fister, hereby authorize William Porter, R.L. Smith McKeithen or James J. Cowie of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), to sign and file on my behalf the Initial Statement of Beneficial Ownership of Securities on Form 3, Statements of Changes in Beneficial Ownership on Forms 4 and 5, and any Amendments thereto, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Act of 1934 relating to my beneficial ownership of securities in the Company.

          The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

          This authorization shall remain in effect until I am no longer required to file forms under Section 16(a) with respect to the Company’s securities, unless earlier revoked in writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

     
/s/ Michael J. Fister
   May 12, 2004
 
  
 
Michael J. Fister
   Date

 

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