Mentor Warms up to 3D Field Solvers
When I consulted for the start-up company Physware on their new 3d Field Solver 5 years ago it dawned on me – IC designers really need the accuracy of 3D Field Solvers to create their…
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Downward EDA Revenue Trends Continue
A picture is worth a 1,000 words so take a look at quarterly EDA revenue as compiled by EDAC: Ron Wilson of EDN has a good summary of Q3 2009 noting that revenue was down…
New Parallel SPICE Start-up Company
SPICE is a wonderful tool for transistor-level circuit designers to predict speed, timing and power of their sensitive designs across Process, Voltage and Temperature regions or corners. One problem is simply run-time of SPICE, it…
3D Field Solvers can be Fast
In SoC designs today parasitic extraction tools produce RC and sometimes L or S-parameter values for full-chip designs using either pattern-matching or equation-based techniques. It gets the job done for most digital designs however when…
Power Consumption, Smartphones and EDA
I’ve been tempted to upgrade to a Smartphone like the iPhone 3GS or Droid because of the rich set of features and I want to appear hip. Doing some research on each of these phones…
Windows Vista and the Falcon Framework
I just upgraded my laptop from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and it got me thinking about Mentor’s Falcon Framework. How are the two even related? When Microsoft introduced Vista they assumed that the installed…
EDA Poster Child for Success
I’ve written before (1,2,3,4) about the success and momentum of Apache Design so it was no surprise to read in EE Times that they are positioning for an IPO. Every quarter for the past several…
Telesales works in EDA
EMA has been selling the OrCAD product line to PCB designers for several years now so it makes sense as they broaden their product lines to add the Aldec tools. My only question about this…
Another PCB Acquistion by Mentor
Paying just 2X annual revenue at $82M we learned that Mentor is acquiring a company called Valor Computerized Systems today. This appears to be another smart move by Mentor and should pay for itself in…
Virage Logic Bulks Up
This month Virage adds 160 staff from NXP and last month they acquired ARC, another IP provider. The NXP deal makes sense to me because Virage also receives some design services business to pay for…