Readers of this blog –– Daniel Payne’s EDA Thoughts –– were recently treated to a look back on DAC in his blog post “DAC Transitions over Time.”  Daniel’s been attending since 1987 and reports on… 

Have you ever wondered what an EDA company is thinking about building or actually doing in R&D? I’ll have a chance to speak with either Chi-Ping Hsu, Senior Vice President of Research and Development for… 

What if I could save you 50% on your $1M annual budget of EDA tools, IT infrastructure and CAD group expenses? Would you be interested? Today I had a briefing with Vishal Kapoor at Cadence… 

My first DAC trip was 1987 when I worked for Silicon Compiler Systems as a corporate Application Engineer.  My focus was on the demo suites and getting my just-compiled version of software to actually run… 

Excellent Gains What an amazing gain we’ve seen in EDA stock prices in just the past 3 months. Magma (LAVA) doubling in price, then Mentor (MENT) increasing some 50%. Ironically Synopsys (SNPS) has been reporting… 

Cadence is onto something that could lower the cost of EDA sales. They are using a service from Xuropa that allows you to login and actually use EDA tools interactively without having to install anything… 

This week I started a poll on eda.plaxogroups.com asking about the Mentor acqusition of LogicVision. My former Mentor co-worker David Stannard is an expert in the test world and he had a lot to say… 

I recently evaluated the Tanner EDA tools on my Windows Vista laptop to get a better feel for their capabilities. My expectation was that I could simply download the software and start evaluating it however… 

There’s a handful of EDA companies exploiting the potential speed up from GPUs: Agilent – EM simulation using NVIDIA Mentor – RET using Cell BE Nascentric – FastSPICE using NVIDIA Gauda – OPC using NVIDIA… 

I’m reading about Sun getting acquired by IBM and started thinking about how awesome Sun was for EDA companies in the late 80’s. I was at Silicon Compilers and we started out offering EDA tools…