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

Cadence is onto something that could lower the cost of EDA sales. They are using a service from Xuropa that allows you to login and actually use EDA tools interactively without having to install anything… Lowering the cost of EDA sales

This week I started a poll on eda.plaxogroups.com asking about the Mentor acqusition of LogicVision. My former Mentor co-worker David Stannard is an expert in the test world and he had a lot to say… Mentor Acquires LogicVision

I recently evaluated the Tanner EDA tools on my Windows Vista laptop to get a better feel for their capabilities. My expectation was that I could simply download the software and start evaluating it however… Tanner EDA

There’s a handful of EDA companies exploiting the potential speed up from GPUs: Agilent – EM simulation using NVIDIA Mentor – RET using Cell BE Nascentric – FastSPICE using NVIDIA Gauda – OPC using NVIDIA… GPU versus Multicore in EDA

I’m reading about Sun getting acquired by IBM and started thinking about how awesome Sun was for EDA companies in the late 80’s. I was at Silicon Compilers and we started out offering EDA tools… The Sun Sets

It’s been widely reported that for every $1 spent on EDA tools that the users end up spending another $3 to make the flow of tools work together. This means job security for CAD groups… The Glue that Binds EDA Together

The good financial news at Mentor was a profit for the quarter. The bad news was that layoffs are coming caused by a decrease in both revenues and profits. Here are some tips to Mentor… Staying Employed in EDA

I love winners and now you can vote for your favorite EDA tools of the year at the EDN Innovation Awards web site: http://www.edn.com/info/CA6630810.html?industryid=48661 Online voting is open until February 27th, 2009. Winners will get… 23 Days Left to Vote for EDN Innovation Awards

Today Cadence announced massive revenue declines for the 4th quarter of 2008, http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/090204/0471345.html At this rate of revenue decline it’s quite possible that Mentor will pass Cadence in 2009 as the new #2 EDA supplier.… Will Mentor Pass Cadence in 2009 to the #2 Spot in EDA?