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Author Archives: paulmcl
Getting out of EDA
Over the last year I’ve had lots of meetings with people who used to work in EDA and have lost their jobs, or, in some cases, still have a job but want to make a longer term change. The subject … Continue reading
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Being CEO
I talked earlier about how you get to be CEO (basically, luck the first time; track record after that). But what does being a CEO entail? I think all senior management jobs consist of two separate dimensions that have two … Continue reading
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Potpourri
Today’s blog is a potpourri of various small things, some of which refer back to earlier blogs. Firstly, you probably saw that Cadence appointed John Bruggeman as CMO. He was previously CMO at Wind River (recently acquired by Intel). I … Continue reading
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Jay Singh’s view
I met last week with Jay Singh of Plato Networks. His official title is “Manager CAE” which makes it sound like he’s in charge of schematic capture. Isn’t CAE what we used to call what Daisy, Mentor, Valid did in … Continue reading
Posted in eda industry, methodology
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Friday puzzle: Monty Hall
Last week’s puzzle was the camel and the bananas. Firstly, a moment’s thought shows that the camel can’t get any bananas to market in one go. It is 1000 km away and so the camel will eat all of its … Continue reading
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Learning French
I wrote earlier about learning Chinese, but the first foreign language I learned was French. I did it at school and I first went to France on a school trip in 1964. I even have a French O-level (the exams … Continue reading
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Mobile payments
I have been doing some work recently with a biometric mobile payment startup. So I went to a VCtaskforce meeting last week about mobile payments. I learned some new stuff to go along with what I already knew. The first … Continue reading
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What’s Dan Dobberpuhl doing?
As I’ve pointed out before, most of the differentiation in the iPhone is in the software and the industrial design. Almost none is in the hardware which, especially in the first version, was all off-the-shelf not particularly special standard parts. … Continue reading
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Analog mobile TV
I talked today to a company called Telegent Systems who make chips for adding TV to cell-phones. The bulk of their business is adding ordinary over-the-air analog TV to cell-phones. You’ve probably never seen this since the US is not … Continue reading
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Big company guys don’t do small
Big company guys think that they can run startups because they’ve run small divisions of big companies. So that must be the same, right? Actually the two things are very different and not many people seem to be good at … Continue reading
Posted in management
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