Category Archives: eda industry

New World Synphony

Posted on October 17, 2009 by paulmcl

It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was writing about software-signoff and FPGAs. I mentioned that Synopsys didn’t really have any high-level synthesis. Rumor has it that they do have sequential formal verification in development. Anyway, on … Continue reading →

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Mergers and acquisitions

Posted on September 15, 2009 by paulmcl

There were three interesting acquisitions in the last week or so: Apache aquired Sequence, Synfora acquired Esterel Studio and Global Foundries acquired Chartered. The Apache/Sequence acquisition is interesting for a couple of reasons. One is that both companies are private and … Continue reading →

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Getting out of EDA

Posted on September 3, 2009 by paulmcl

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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Jay Singh’s view

Posted on August 31, 2009 by paulmcl

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 →

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DAC in review

Posted on August 20, 2009 by paulmcl

So now that there are a couple of weeks to allow a bit of introspection (also known as reading everyone else’s blogs) what were the big themes? On the technical side I think it is the fifth, or whatever, year … Continue reading →

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DAC attendance

Posted on August 13, 2009 by paulmcl

Kevin Morris does a great job of dissecting the DAC attendance numbers. Since he has his FPGA hat on while doing this, one of the points he emphasizes is that most people doing electronic design are doing FPGA+software systems and … Continue reading →

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DAC: VC panel

Posted on July 29, 2009 by paulmcl

I went to Lucio Lanza’s panel session on how much it matters that VC investment for fabless semiconductor companies and EDA companies has dried up. The rest of the panel was Sanjay Shrivastava from Denali, Gunjeet Baweja from Needham and … Continue reading →

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DAC, day 1

Posted on July 28, 2009 by paulmcl

I went to the CEO panel today. But it wasn’t very illuminating since everyone was being too nice. When someone asked the question about what advice there was for the roughly 250 EDA startup CEOs in the audience, Wally said … Continue reading →

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Don’t panic, but DAC is next week

Posted on July 24, 2009 by paulmcl

First thing. If you’ve not already done it, then go to the Denali website and vote for EDAgraffiti as the best blog. Especially if you come here regularly. Voting closes on Monday evening. So DAC starts on Monday. Actually, for … Continue reading →

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Who are the EDA press?

Posted on July 22, 2009 by paulmcl

DAC is coming up and all those marketing engines are revving up to a fever pitch waiting for the green light. But who should they pitch to? Customers, obviously, you eventually have to win the ground war. But what about … Continue reading →

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