Another month, another complimentary EDA acquisition. Forte is well-known for C synthesis and Arithmatica offers datapath synthesis. This combination has a good chance of success because: 1) Complimentary tools 2) Clear management structure (Dan Ganousis… Forte Acquires Arithmatica
This is how acquisitions in EDA are supposed to work: Friendly, not hostile Complementary products, not overlapping Egos checked at the door, no whining in the press Compatible management philosophy, clear org chart post-merger Apache… Apache acquires Sequence
Amr Bayoumi, Ph.D. (Chief Technical Adviser) from New Systems Research spoke with me via Skype on Friday. We had a DAC meeting scheduled but I made a mistake about the meeting location and missed it.… Making SPICE Go Faster with a GPU
Last Monday I had a conference call with Nick Williams of Tanner EDA along with Dan Hammond (VP Marketing). In April I blogged about my install and use of their tools. This 21 year-old, privately… Tanner EDA Update, post-DAC
Dermott Lynch of Silicon Frontline spoke with me by phone on Monday to give an update about how their tools extract 3D accurate RC netlists. We first met at Viewlogic in the 90’s when Dermott… Silicon Frontline – 3D RC Extraction
Last Friday I had an online meeting with Ashutosh Mauskar, vice president of Magma’s Custom Design Business Unit to learn what was new with the Titan product lineup. Magma has been very involved with interoperable… Magma’s Titan – Analog Elegance
I met with Pat Drennan – CTO on Tuesday to learn more about Solido Design Automation. Pat is an ex Motorola/Freescale guy who really likes statistics and silicon device physics. For years now the foundries… Solido Design
On Tuesday I had a Suite presentation from Jerome Toublanc, Principal Product Engineer at Apache. They are a private growing company founded in 2003 with a focus on power and noise integrity for chips, SIPs… Apache Design Automation
On Tuesday I met with Richard Shi, Ph.D.,Chairman and CTO of Orora Design Technologies. This company offered the 1st – optimizer and analog synthesis tool. They showed me three tools for use by analog design… Orora Design Technologies
I met with Dave Milman, Marketing at Ciranova on Tuesday afternoon. Big news this last week is that TSMC is now supporting iPDKs because we are no longer locked to Cadence Pcells. PDKs from foundry… Ciranova – More Analog, Less Time