Who
Robert Hum, VP and GM for DSM Division

What
Eldo and ADiT update
Summary
Eldo is a traditional SPICE circuit simulator, first made popular in Europe. ADiT is an acquired Fast SPICE circuit simulator from Taiwan that replaced Mach TA a few years ago. ADiT Rail was re-launched and offers IR drop analysis and EM analysis, including viewing. Both [...]

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Who
Bradley Geden, CustomSim marketing
Dwayne Holst, Custom Explorer
Geoffrey Ying
(Packed room: 10 people)
What
CustomSim is really three engines: NanoSim, HSIM (memory), XA. In my view NanoSim and HSIM users need to transition to XA where all the new development is taking place.
Notes
IR Drop, EM analysis – options to CustomSim
March 2010 release – XA now 4X faster compared to [...]

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Who
Vinay Patwardhan, Senior Manager, Customer Support

What
What’s New – Fast Monte Carlo, statistical simulation technique
-          Transient noise analysis
Notes
Overview – FineSim SPICE, FineSim PRO
-          FineSim SPICE: multi-cpu capability (not multi-core with hyper threading), very linear speedup
-          FineSim PRO:Fast Spice like NanoSim, HSIM, UltraSim. Does partitioning

Also multi-cpu
PRO includes FineSim SPICE

-          Both

Standard netlist formats (Hspice – not accuracy options, [...]

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Who
John Kulusich, VP Business Development
Wai Yan Ho, CEO/President (ECAD, ASIC, Microprocessor,Epic, DRC/LVS, invested in EDA companies, ASPECT)
When I marketed a Fast SPICE circuit simulator I knew that trying to simulate a power or ground network with millions of RC elements would just swamp my tool, so we always told the users to run the built-in [...]

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I’ve been tempted to upgrade to a Smartphone like the iPhone 3GS or Droid because of the rich set of features and I want to appear hip.

Doing some research on each of these phones reveals a common weakness – short battery life. The Droid or iPhone battery can last a mere 4 hours with just [...]

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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 years I would read almost the same press release from Apache, “record sales, still profitable”. Apache is my favorite EDA poster [...]

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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 has created a handful of power and signal integrity point tools, and this acquisition will help them broaden their tool suite to include a Design [...]

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On Tuesday I had a Suite presentation from Jerome Toublanc, Principal Product Engineer at Apache.
They are a private growing company founded in 2003 with a focus on power and noise integrity for chips, SIPs and packages.
Products Include
- RedHawk – SoC Power (dynamic voltage drop) Chip Power Model (8 0f 20 top semi clients)
-   Sentinel (Optimal) [...]

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