Author Archives: paulmcl

Presentations books

Posted on April 7, 2010 by paulmcl

A few days ago I was asked by a friend what books I would recommend on putting together presentations. There are lots out there and I don’t claim to have looked at all of them. But here are five that … Continue reading →

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EDAC’s origins

Posted on March 26, 2010 by paulmcl

Because I do some consulting for Oasys, I crossed paths with Rick Carlson who is an investor and advisor to them. I hadn’t realized that he was one of the people responsible for getting EDAC going. In fact, when EDAC … Continue reading →

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Tekton

Posted on March 10, 2010 by paulmcl

I met with Bob Smith, VP of product marketing for Magma, earlier this week, over a glass of wine and a lunch in a nice French bistro, to talk about the new product that they are introducing today. They are … Continue reading →

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Altium: EDA Oz-style

Posted on March 3, 2010 by paulmcl

One theme of this blog is that IC EDA is increasingly inspecting its own navel while the bulk of design is going on in the PCB and FPGA worlds (not to mention software). One company that is focused on this … Continue reading →

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EDAC forecast panel

Posted on February 23, 2010 by paulmcl

The annual EDAC CEO forecast meeting was last week. For a change, Synopsys had just reported their results earlier and so were not in their quiet period. Unfortunately, Wally had just entered his quiet period so, as he put it, … Continue reading →

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Guest blog: Sandeep Srinivasan

Posted on February 19, 2010 by paulmcl

This is the second part of a piece by Sandeep Srinivasan. The first part is here. This follows on from my piece yesterday and sets up a different view from mine (you’ll have to wait until next Tuesday, or read … Continue reading →

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So you want to start an EDA company?

Posted on February 17, 2010 by paulmcl

As I have said repeatedly, the old model for innovation in EDA has died. The old model was largely that venture capitalists would fund teams of engineers, they would produce products to solve some problem that was looming on the … Continue reading →

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CoWare

Posted on February 8, 2010 by paulmcl

It must be something in the water in silicon valley right now. But no sooner have I written about VaST and Virtutech being acquired then Synopsys acquires CoWare as well. Since I never worked there, I don’t have any sort … Continue reading →

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Virtutech

Posted on February 5, 2010 by paulmcl

I’d heard rumors that Intel was acquiring Virtutech and I presumed that the purpose was to put it together with Wind River that they acquired last year. I mentioned this in my post about VaST earlier this week but I … Continue reading →

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VaST

Posted on February 3, 2010 by paulmcl

Finally it is public knowledge that Synopsys has acquired VaST Systems Technology. I was VP marketing there for a bit over a year back when Graham was still CEO. Since I exercised my options when I left, I’ve been inundated … Continue reading →

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