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… 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… Virtue and EDA
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… Merry Christmas 2015
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 and Philanthropy
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… EDA without using the Acronym EDA
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… SPICE update from Mentor
A friend just sent me the news link that Carl Icahn is making a bid to control Mentor Graphics with a 6.9% equity position in MENT stock. Of course that news helped boost the share… Farewell to Wally Rhines at Mentor?
When I consulted for the start-up company Physware on their new 3d Field Solver 5 years ago it dawned on me – IC designers really need the accuracy of 3D Field Solvers to create their… Mentor Warms up to 3D Field Solvers
I just upgraded my laptop from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and it got me thinking about Mentor’s Falcon Framework. How are the two even related? When Microsoft introduced Vista they assumed that the installed… Windows Vista and the Falcon Framework
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… Another PCB Acquistion by Mentor
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… EDA Stock Price Snapshot