Cadence Design Systems, an American multinational electronic design automation software and engineering services company, completed the acquisition of a 16% stake in Green Hills Software, that builds operating systems and programming tools for embedded systems, for $150m. “The hyperconnected era is creating increasing safety and security challenges, particularly for the critical aerospace and defense, automotive, medical and industrial IoT domains. By partnering closely with Green Hills, we look forward to delivering solutions that will accelerate the development of highly secure embedded systems in these critical areas and furthering our System Design Enablement strategy by broadening our reach in these verticals to expand beyond our core business into newer adjacent areas of the system space,” Lip-Bu Tan, Cadence CEO.