Author Archives: paulmcl

Ticonderoga

Posted on January 29, 2010 by paulmcl

When I was at Cadence, one of my jobs was to be the technical interface to investors and analysts. The finance organization, with its investor relations department, could handle all the numbers but if anyone wanted to talk about technology … Continue reading →

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Consumer Electronics Show

Posted on January 22, 2010 by paulmcl

At the start of January I went to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. It is quite unlike any trade-show I’ve ever been to before. It fills all the halls of the Las Vegas convention center plus a … Continue reading →

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One year on

Posted on January 20, 2010 by paulmcl

It is the one-year anniversary of Obama’s inauguration and so I decided I’d look back at the blog entry that I wrote a year ago to see how well it has stood up. I called out a couple of big … Continue reading →

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Shake that EDA malaise

Posted on January 19, 2010 by paulmcl

I have a sort of op-ed piece in Electronic Design today. Anybody who has been following my musing here (and, yes, I know I’ve not mused very much recently; must muse more ) won’t be surprised by anything I say. … Continue reading →

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The fleas aren’t doing so badly

Posted on January 4, 2010 by paulmcl

Way back in the mists of time early last year, at the EDAC CEO forecast panel, we were asked to forecast the stock prices of Cadence, Mentor, Magma, MIPS and Synopsys. See "we are fleas on a sick dog." I … Continue reading →

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Cadence goes two-dimensional

Posted on December 8, 2009 by paulmcl

Yesterday I spent an hour with John Bruggeman, who has now been CMO at Cadence for just over a couple of months. As I’ve said before, I knew John before he joined Cadence since he was the CMO for Wind … Continue reading →

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Guest blog: Sandeep Srinivasan

Posted on December 8, 2009 by paulmcl

Sandeep is currently a consultant at Mskribe. Most recently he was Vice President of West Coast Operations, for CLK-Design Automation. Prior to CLK-DA, he was CEO and Founder of Synchronous-DA which merged with CLK-DA and a history going back through … Continue reading →

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The VHDL and Verilog story

Posted on December 1, 2009 by paulmcl

I put a blog entry up on the Oasys blog about their new release, which is the first to support VHDL. But a couple of people told me it was a nice recounting of history so I decided to put … Continue reading →

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Guest blog: John McGehee

Posted on November 23, 2009 by paulmcl

Today’s guest blog is by John McGehee. John is a independent consultant in Silicon Valley, specializing in EDA application development, design methodology and Japan.  He blogs about these topics at www.voom.net.  Prior to starting his consulting career, John was an … Continue reading →

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NXP, cochlear implants, LED lighting and more

Posted on November 15, 2009 by paulmcl

A couple of weeks ago I spent a morning at NXP’s innovation day. The first slightly surreal aspect of it was that it was in a building I used to work in. After I left VLSI Technology, NXP (then Philips … Continue reading →

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