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…
SPICE and FastSPICE, Podcast from DAC
In case you didn’t visit DAC 47 in Anaheim, California to see the SPICE and FastSPICE panel session, you can still listen to me moderate the three panelists: Pierluigi Daglio – STMicroelectronics, Agrate, Italy Aaron…
EDA Consortium, Market Statistics Service
The following information is supplied by EDAC and shows an increase in total revenues of 4.6% in Q1, 2010. Remember that this includes IP plus EDA tools. Each quarter, the EDA Consortium publishes the Market…
EDA Networking in Oregon: July 9th, 5:30PM-7PM
Friday networking July 9th, 20105:30PM – 7PM ( drinks and finger food after work) Olive Garden Restaurant, Lake Oswego. Discussion Ideas · DAC Conference, attendance down 25% so does it matter? · Carl Icahn is still after Mentor Graphics · Would you…
DAC47 Attendance Down 25%
As you can tell by my title I don’t spin the numbers for our industry’s most popular trade show, so take a look at attendance over the past four years to see how the recession…
SPICE update from Mentor
I talked with See-Mei Chan, Technical Marketing Manager at Mentor this morning because we couldn’t connect in Anaheim earlier this week. I wanted to better understand what is new with Eldo, the SPICE circuit simulator…
PathFinder – ESD Integrity for IC designs
Who Jerome Toublanc, Principal Product Engineer at Apache Design Automation Overview Notes PathFinder – ESD integrity for advanced electronic circuits What is ESD? ESD for an IC at an IO pad. How do you protect…