EDA without using the Acronym EDA
Two press releases came out today and they were both from major EDA companies that are now starting to position themselves without using the EDA acronym. Perhaps this is a new but subtle trend to…
Semiconductor IP Booms in Q2 2010
EDAC publishes a quarterly report called the Market Statistics Service and I just read that Semiconductor IP sales jumped 35.3% in Q2 2010 compared to Q2 2009. The Americas region is still the largest sales…
An HP Laptop with Thermal Issues
Three years ago I bought an HP Pavilion laptop (DV9000) with a 17inch display running Windows Vista. All has been well until last week when it died. My laptop symptoms were that I pushed the…
Interoperability and EDA Bugs
I’ll never forget the shock when I ran some SPICE simulations as a new college graduate working at Intel and my 5V part had a circuit that doubled the VCC supply towards 10V internally to…
Ciranova Receives Intel Funding
At the 2009 DAC I was visiting Ciranova at their booth when an Intel guy walked up and started talking excitedly with an executive about using Ciranova tools, at which point the executive asked me…
Tanner EDA Tools Now on Linux
Linux is a mainstream OS used by IC designers worldwide so Tanner EDA has good timing in offering a full-flow Analog IC Design Suite on Linux. Tanner tools started out on Microsoft Windows and now…
DAC and it’s Founder, Pat Pistilli
Today I had the pleasure of talking with Pat Pistilli by phone about how the Design Automation Conference got started, the early days of EDA and electronics design, and a sense of where we are…
Cadence Virtuoso Update
On July 16th I met with three Cadence people in Oregon to get an update on the Virtuoso product line, the leading IC layout and design environment in EDA: John Stabenow, Marketing Group Director, Virtuoso Platform David…
Cadence is still #2 in EDA and IP Revenues
I just had to post something in response to what I heard from Gary Smith at DAC and now on Twitter. Gary is saying, “Mentor is #2 in EDA Revenues, passing Cadence (using our special…
EDA Users doing RF IC Design
I met Stella Mandehou in my social network and she is part of a group of five MBA students conducting a survey for EDA users doing RF IC design. If you could help out and…