A New SPICE Simulator
Last month Infinisim announced its SPICE circuit simulator called RASER. They don’t want to label it a Fast SPICE tool because that implies less accuracy, so I’m going to place it in the Analog Fast…
Chip Design Mag
Live Chat for EDA?
I just read an article on EE Times from Dell about their new Hybrid PC, so I clicked the link and visited the Hybrid site. Within a few minutes I saw a pop-under screen from…
FPGA Verification and Debug
GateRocket is on a roll after raising another $3M last week in VC funding. Dave Orecchio is the CEO and I remember working for him at Viewlogic in the hey-days of the 90’s. This company…
Cadence ramps up the press
In May and June this year Cadence issued 9 press releases each month, which felt to me like the right amount of “newsworthy” items. After withdrawing their hostile bid for Mentor in August it seems…
EDA Stock Price Snapshot
A picture is worth a thousand words, at least to an engineer like me so let’s see what happened in the past 3 months:EDA Stocks, August 23, 2008 Mentor is up about 10%, Synopsys down…
Cadence Eats Humble Pie
I had to laugh out loud when I read the press release where Cadence blames Mentor for their own failed bid. Even more laughable was Mentor’s feigned “shock” at Cadence withdrawing their hostile bid. I’m 100% certain…
CDNS stock in free-fall, let Mentor go
Cadence stock fell some 30% today after Michael Fister talked about lower sales and earnings than expected according to an article in the Oregonian . Here’s my favorite analyst quote: Terence Whalen, a Citigroup analyst, asked Fister…
Webinars and Webcasting
I had the pleasure of attending a webinar yesterday about what’s new in HSPICE presented by Synopsys. Previous webinars I’ve attended required that I use a separate phone line to get audio, then use my web browser to view the…
Flomerics Accepts Mentor Bid
Mentor’s latest cash offer was accepted today by the board at Flomerics. It’s likely that the Flomerics CEO and vocal staff will not make the transition into Mentor. I can see how the Mentor sales team could…
IP Presentations from DAC
ChipEstimate.com has archived all of the IP presentations in PDF from DAC called IP Talks. Companies include: Algotronix ARM Cadence CAST CebaTech Common Platform Denali Dolphin Elliptic eSilicon Impinj IPextreme KiloPass Mixel MoSys PLDA Rambus TakeCharge Sidense Synopsys…