http://www.chipdesignmag.com/payne From an EDA marketing insider Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:08:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, 2008Mentor is up about 10%, Synopsys down about 16%, Magma down about 18%, finally Cadence down some 30%. Clearly our industry is hurting ... http://www.chipdesignmag.com/payne/2008/08/23/eda-stock-price-snapshot/ 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 that there is joy and partying going on at Mentor in Wilsonville as I ... http://www.chipdesignmag.com/payne/2008/08/15/cadence-eats-humble-pie/ Two titans in the IP industry, Rambus and MIPS both announced layoffs because of a slower economy. Not so long ago I remember these two leading IP companies growing at double-digit rates, ouch. Let's hope that these two companies continue to invest in R&D and create new "star IP" to bring ... http://www.chipdesignmag.com/payne/2008/08/15/ip-companies-hit-bumpy-economy/ It just hit me today at how some of the most popular software in the world is automatically updated on a regular basis to fix bugs and add new features, software like: Microsoft Operating Systems and Applications Quicken for finance Turbo Tax Plaxo for networking Java So the big question for me then is, why doesn't ... http://www.chipdesignmag.com/payne/2008/08/13/automatic-updates-for-eda/ 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 whether he was the right person to continue leading Cadence, given the company's "deterioration," ... http://www.chipdesignmag.com/payne/2008/07/25/cdns-stock-in-free-fall-let-mentor-go/ I had the pleasure of attending a webinar yesterday about what's new in HSPICE presented by Synopsys. Previous webinars I've attended required that I use a separate phone line to get audio, then use my web browser to view the presentation. With this webinar I just had to use my web ... http://www.chipdesignmag.com/payne/2008/07/16/webinars-and-webcasting/ Mentor's latest cash offer was accepted today by the board at Flomerics. It's likely that the Flomerics CEO and vocal staff will not make the transition into Mentor. I can see how the Mentor sales team could sell the Electronics Cooling tools, maybe even some of the Engineering Fluid Dynamics tools, but ... http://www.chipdesignmag.com/payne/2008/07/02/flomerics-accepts-mentor-bid/ ChipEstimate.com has archived all of the IP presentations in PDF from DAC called IP Talks. Companies include: Algotronix ARM Cadence CAST CebaTech Common Platform Denali Dolphin Elliptic eSilicon Impinj IPextreme KiloPass Mixel MoSys PLDA Rambus TakeCharge Sidense Synopsys True Circuits TSMC Virage Logic Wipro http://www.chipdesignmag.com/payne/2008/07/01/ip-presentations-from-dac/ David Heller taped 64 brief videos at DAC this month, ranging from 48 seconds to well over 4 minutes. His guest speakers all work at EDA companies that exhibited at DAC, from start-up Analog Rails to giant Synopsys and everything else in-between. I first met David at Viewlogic in the 90's, ... http://www.chipdesignmag.com/payne/2008/06/28/64-brief-dac-videos/ Mentor just extended their cash offer to buy Flomerics at a value of just 1.2X historic revenue, however they still don't want to be acquired. Good for them! Let's see if Autodesk comes to the rescue of Flomerics. Flomerics has only one niche product for PCB designers and the rest of their ... http://www.chipdesignmag.com/payne/2008/06/24/flomerics-said-no-twice/