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…
Infinisim Gets Real
I love to read when a tier-one semiconductor company publicly endorses a SPICE tool, and from a start-up at that! AMCC talks about start-up Infinisim and the RASER circuit simulator. The story is compelling: 50X…
Forte Acquires Arithmatica
Another month, another complimentary EDA acquisition. Forte is well-known for C synthesis and Arithmatica offers datapath synthesis. This combination has a good chance of success because: 1) Complimentary tools 2) Clear management structure (Dan Ganousis…
Apache acquires Sequence
This is how acquisitions in EDA are supposed to work: Friendly, not hostile Complementary products, not overlapping Egos checked at the door, no whining in the press Compatible management philosophy, clear org chart post-merger Apache…
Making SPICE Go Faster with a GPU
Amr Bayoumi, Ph.D. (Chief Technical Adviser) from New Systems Research spoke with me via Skype on Friday. We had a DAC meeting scheduled but I made a mistake about the meeting location and missed it.…
Tanner EDA Update, post-DAC
Last Monday I had a conference call with Nick Williams of Tanner EDA along with Dan Hammond (VP Marketing). In April I blogged about my install and use of their tools. This 21 year-old, privately…
Silicon Frontline – 3D RC Extraction
Dermott Lynch of Silicon Frontline spoke with me by phone on Monday to give an update about how their tools extract 3D accurate RC netlists. We first met at Viewlogic in the 90’s when Dermott…