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… Read More »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… Read More »EDA Poster Child for Success
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… Read More »Telesales works in EDA
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… Read More »Another PCB Acquistion by Mentor
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… Read More »Virage Logic Bulks Up
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… Read More »Infinisim Gets Real
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… Read More »Forte Acquires Arithmatica
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… Read More »Apache acquires Sequence
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… Read More »Making SPICE Go Faster with a GPU
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… Read More »Tanner EDA Update, post-DAC
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.… Read More »Silicon Frontline – 3D RC Extraction