Computer-aided design software specialist Cadence Design Systems Inc is to establish a number of joint production projects for the electronics industry in the former Soviet republics: meetings are scheduled with Ineum of Angstrem, close to Russia’s Silicon Valley in Zelenograd, near Moscow; NPO Integral of Minsk; BeloRussia and MKB Elektron of Kharkov in the Ukraine; the Moscow office of Roy International Consultancy represents Cadence.