64 Brief DAC Videos
David Heller taped 64 brief videos at DAC this month, ranging from 48 seconds to well over 4 minutes. His guest speakers all work at EDA companies that exhibited at DAC, from start-up Analog Rails to giant…
Flomerics said no, twice!
Mentor just extended their cash offer to buy Flomerics at a value of just 1.2X historic revenue, however they still don’t want to be acquired. Good for them! Let’s see if Autodesk comes to the rescue of…
Who is Frank Quattrone? CDN and MENT
Interesting article in our local Oregonian newspaper about this high-tech investment banker showing up at the annual Mentor shareholder meeting last week. Nobody knows if he’s working for CDN, MENT or somebody else. It kind of reminds…
Cadence Makes Colossal Error in Bid to Acquire Mentor
I guess that my title sums up the strategic blunder that Cadence is making in their bid for Mentor Graphics. So, why is this such a big mistake for Cadence and the EDA industry? Product…
When One EDA blog is not enough
Sean Murphy is now famous for organizing bloggers at DAC 2008 in Anaheim. Check out his list of EDA bloggers.
EDAC Entertainment Dud
Sunday evening EDAC did something different by trying to entertain the DAC audience with a game show, well it was novel yet I predict a show that will not be repeated. In years gone by…
Daniel’s DAC list of companies to see
I’m a SPICE and transistor-level IC guy so will make the rounds on Monday to see: Nascentric (OmegaSim – FastSPICE) Berkeley DA (Analog FastSPICE) Synopsys (HSIM, NanoSim – FastSPICE) Mentor (AdIT – FastSPICE) Cadence (UltraSim…
Free Custom IC Layout Tools
Cadence dominates the custom IC layout market and CiraNova gets a lot of attention about automating analog layout, but I’m here to tell you about an interesting company called Micro Magic that is offering a free IC layout viewer called MAX-View.…
Quickturn deja vu
Flomerics management is urging shareholders to reject the bid by Mentor Graphics, and this reminds me of when Mentor tried to acquire Quickturn.
Q1 Financial Summary
Bad NewsMentor – Lost $0.30/share on revenue of $179.2M with estimates of Q2 revenue at $173M and a loss of $0.23/share. Q1 is historically Mentor’s weakest quarter plus they exited the IP business. Good NewsSynopsys – Earned…