Marketing 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… Read More »GPU versus Multicore in EDA

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… Read More »The Glue that Binds EDA Together

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… Read More »The Sun Sets

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… Read More »Staying Employed in EDA

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… Read More »Will Mentor Pass Cadence in 2009 to the #2 Spot 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… Read More »23 Days Left to Vote for EDN Innovation Awards

Mentor wisely purchased the C synthesis tools from Agility Design Solutions (Celoxica). I call it wise because Mentor is growing their Catapult synthesis tool in… Read More »The Strong get Stronger

In 2009 I expect that EDA companies will continue to merge in order to stay financially viable. Here are a few rules and questions that… Read More »Merry Mergers

The need for speed is ever present to transistor-level circuit design engineers and now Cadence offers them some instant relief with APS – Accelerated Parallel… Read More »Cadence adds Parallel SPICE to Spectre

When you hear the phrase, “Massively Parallel Processor Array” what company name comes to mind? Did you think, Ambric? No, neither did I, which maybe… Read More »Massively Parallel Processor Array