It's over: Industry hails Cadence-Avanti truce.

Reports on the settlement of Cadence Design Systems Inc.'s six-year-old lawsuit against Avanti Corp. and the company that acquired it, Synopsys Inc. Amount of the settlement; Origination of the dispute from Avanti's theft in the early 1990s of Cadence's place-and-route and database source code; Competitive threat posed by the Avanti-Synopsis merger to Cadence's position in the electronic design automation industry.