Category Archives: eda industry

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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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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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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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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Kauffman Award Dinner

Posted on November 10, 2009 by paulmcl

Last week was the EDAC Kauffman Award dinner. One minor advantage of being a blogger is that I got invited along as press. “Will blog for food”. This year’s winner was Professor Randal Bryant, usually just known as Randy Bryant. … Continue reading →

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ICCAD: EDA for the next 10 years

Posted on November 3, 2009 by paulmcl

Yesterday at ICCAD, Jim Hogan and I led an discussion on the megatrends facing electronics and the implications going forward for EDA. Basically we took a leaf out of Scoop Nisker’s book, who when he finished reading the news would … Continue reading →

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