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… 

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… 

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… 

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… 

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… 

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… 

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 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… 

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… 

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.…