Virtue and EDA
Last night I attended a lecture from Dr. Shannon Vallor about techno-morality as part of the Linus Pauling series in Portland, Oregon. Thank you Mentor Graphics for the invitation. She has written a book on…
Merry Christmas 2015
I receive a lot of email each week and the run up to Christmas is one of my favorite times of year as companies send out a Holiday Greeting. Here are some that I’ve received…
EDA and Philanthropy
In a recession what EDA company would invest in philanthropy? Actually, many EDA companies have a long-term vision to be philanthropic and encourage a love for science in our younger generation. This month I was…
EDA without using the Acronym EDA
Two press releases came out today and they were both from major EDA companies that are now starting to position themselves without using the EDA acronym. Perhaps this is a new but subtle trend to…
Interoperability and EDA Bugs
I’ll never forget the shock when I ran some SPICE simulations as a new college graduate working at Intel and my 5V part had a circuit that doubled the VCC supply towards 10V internally to…
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…
EDA Stock Price Snapshot
A picture is worth a thousand words, at least to an engineer like me so let’s see what happened in the past 3 months:EDA Stocks, August 23, 2008 Mentor is up about 10%, Synopsys down…
Cadence Eats Humble Pie
I had to laugh out loud when I read the press release where Cadence blames Mentor for their own failed bid. Even more laughable was Mentor’s feigned “shock” at Cadence withdrawing their hostile bid. I’m 100% certain…
CDNS stock in free-fall, let Mentor go
Cadence stock fell some 30% today after Michael Fister talked about lower sales and earnings than expected according to an article in the Oregonian . Here’s my favorite analyst quote: Terence Whalen, a Citigroup analyst, asked Fister…
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…