Chip Design Mag

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… 

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.… 

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… 

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 the algorithmic space and adding more to the installed base… 

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 companies should consider following for a successful merger: Friendliness –… 

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 Simulator. In the press release we read from actual customers… 

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 explains why this Oregon-based start-up closed down recently. Looking at… 

What a way to crash the former #1 EDA company: Start a hostile bid for another company amidst an uproar of opposition Fail in your hostile bid, blame the smaller company Miss your quarterly sales… 

Last month we saw Infinisim announce a new SPICE simulator and this month it’s a company called Gemini. What’s new with Gemini is that they exploit multi-thread and multi-core to a greater extent. For understandable…