Monthly Archives: February 2010

EDAC forecast panel

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

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?

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

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

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

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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