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Sunday at DAC

Sunday at DAC

I just met John Donovan, Editor with Low-Power Design. We’re on laptops blogging, tweeting and catching up on emails. Rick Stanton, Director of Strategy at Dassault Systems chatted with me about using social media in EDA. We both… Sunday at DAC

New Logic Synthesis Vendor Unveiled

If your next design has 100 million gates then what tools are you going to use for logic synthesis? Until today you would be faced with breaking up your design into blocks and then stitching… New Logic Synthesis Vendor Unveiled

Jasper Beefs Up Formal Verification

I talked with Holly Stump at Jasper by phone last week about their newest release of formal verification tools. Holly has worked before at Sequence and Precedence. Because formal tools examine the state space of… Jasper Beefs Up Formal Verification

My List of DAC Exhibitors

I’ll be visiting the following list of EDA companies at DAC this year and writing what I learn about each one: ACCIT – Parallel SPICE, http://www.accit-newsystemsresearch.com/ Altos DA – Cell characterization, http://www.altos-da.com/ Analog Rails –… My List of DAC Exhibitors

Guest Blog from Nanette Collins and Lee Wood on DAC 2009

Readers of this blog –– Daniel Payne’s EDA Thoughts –– were recently treated to a look back on DAC in his blog post “DAC Transitions over Time.”  Daniel’s been attending since 1987 and reports on… Guest Blog from Nanette Collins and Lee Wood on DAC 2009

I Should’ve Bought EDA Stocks in Feb 2009

Excellent Gains What an amazing gain we’ve seen in EDA stock prices in just the past 3 months. Magma (LAVA) doubling in price, then Mentor (MENT) increasing some 50%. Ironically Synopsys (SNPS) has been reporting… I Should’ve Bought EDA Stocks in Feb 2009