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Category Archives: management
Semiconductor is not EDA
Executives from semiconductor companies regularly arrive in EDA companies convinced that their years of experience as customers mean that they understand the EDA business. Software people just need some of the discipline of semiconductor design, which the executive has plenty … Continue reading
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Three envelopes
Can there be any subject more boring than revenue recognition for software? If you listen to the conference calls of the public EDA companies, you’ll either hear them discuss or get asked about how much of their business is ratable … Continue reading
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“Put your money where your mouth is”
Talking of being CEO of Cadence, not many people have been parachuted into running a troubled EDA company. But I have. At the end of 1996 Compass Design Automation was coming up to a fifth successive quarter in which the … Continue reading
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