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01/18/2010
AtopTech oddly co-announces profitability and replacing management
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01/17/2010
Dan Nenni on climbing wafer counts yet EDA revenue stalling
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01/14/2010
Rivals laugh at Synopsys annual PrimeTime 2X speed-up claims
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01/13/2010
Recent ESNUG contributor, Robert Patti, gets 2009 SEMI award
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01/11/2010
Mentor's Displaced Worker Program has trained 996 engineers
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01/08/2010
Recruiting terrorists? Well then start with the engineers?
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01/07/2010
OK, so maybe Peggy secretly married an Azuro seed investor???
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01/04/2010
Cooley humbled for dissing Data Design Management "heroes"
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01/01/2010
Tanner EDA marketing says "we're not cheap; we're inexpensive!"
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11/05/2009
Jay Vleeschhouwer's analysis of the 2Q 2009 EDA numbers
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09/01/2009
[last call] -- The BEST and WORST tools at DAC 2009
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08/12/2009
Reactions to Magma's unexpectedly good Q1 prelim numbers
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08/11/2009
How Synopsys bought crowds at DAC for under 3ドル per person
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08/10/2009
Joe Costello showed for Oasys, but few showed up for Joe
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08/06/2009
Dave Chapman on "maybe C synthesis has finally grown up"
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08/04/2009
Pre-printed "audience" questions doubted at dull DAC CEO panel
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07/22/2009
Charity of 3 EDA vendors causes big outpouring of goodwill
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07/09/2009
Denali/Springsoft/Atrenta give out 600 DAC passes to laid off
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07/08/2009
EDAC restores "Free Monday" to upcoming DAC in San Francisco
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06/11/2009
Aart secretly punts Rajeev off of the upcoming DAC CEO panel
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06/10/2009
Former Synopsys bigwig's start-up, Xoomsys, goes belly up
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06/09/2009
DATE General Chair to Lou Covey -- "We're not going away"
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06/08/2009
Apache Andrew Yang secretly launches fake independent blog
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06/06/2009
Agilent EEsof -- "rumors of our death are greatly exaggerated"
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06/05/2009
User denied access to supposedly open Magma "Liberate Me" offer
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06/04/2009
EDAC finds it can't win against proud California graduations
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06/02/2009
The recent Cadence-Taray FPGA-PCB deal is too vague to decipher!
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06/01/2009
Last minute both Cadence and Magma decide to return to DAC after all
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05/19/2009
Layoffs, doom and gloom are rumored at Agilent's EEsof EDA Division
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05/18/2009
Lou Covey -- "this was to be the last year of DATE"
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05/17/2009
LogicVision merger gives Mentor a lock on Logic BIST
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05/13/2009
IC Manage's survey accidentally confirms the Catapult C survey
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05/12/2009
CNBC Jim Cramer's Cadence stock recommendation has zero impact
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05/11/2009
DesignCon 2009 attendance wasn't down 40%, more like down 5%
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04/09/2009
84% of EDA exhibitors bail on showing at DATE'09 in Europe
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04/08/2009
Chip sales for 2009 predicted to be down 13 to 28 percent
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04/07/2009
John Tanner -- "What I learned in 20 years of Analog IC EDA"
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04/06/2009
DVcon 2009 attendance down 17%; will DesignCon be down 40%?
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04/04/2009
Female engineer furious at Altium's "booth babe" letters
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02/19/2009
Hardware design today involves far too many stupid languages
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02/17/2009
Sequence PowerArtist wins DesignCon award in weird category
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02/11/2009
EE Times rumors say Magma might go private or bought by Cadence
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02/10/2009
Altium "booth babe" was most memorable thing at DesignCon'09
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01/08/2009
Exactly who is this "Lip-Bu Tan" that Cadence just made CEO?
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12/11/2008
47 EDA people fully qualified to replace Mike Fister as CEO
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10/15/2008
Hallelujah! Mike Fister and 4 of his cronies resign from CDNS!
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07/28/2008
Citigroup analyst questions Mike Fister's leadership of Cadence
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06/27/2008
Gary Smith with anti-Trust on the Cadence takeover of Mentor
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06/24/2008
The BEST and WORST tools at the recent DAC 2008
You choose!
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06/17/2008
The letter Mike Fister sent Wally Rhines for the hostile bid
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06/08/2008
Synplicity CEO says its "business as usual" after SNPS merger
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06/07/2008
Former Cadence VP on Cadence "falling off the radar" at DAC
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06/06/2008
Bluespec warns that Forte & Mentor CatapultC are proprietary
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06/04/2008
A first peek at the Synopsys "Orion", their Virtuoso-killer
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05/29/2008
Prep for DAC and instructions for the My Cheesy Must See List
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05/15/2008
Video of Wally Rhines on test in his DVcon'08 keynote address
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05/08/2008
Video of this year's Troublemaker's Panel at the recent DVcon
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02/27/2008
Video of Rajeev announcing "Titan", his new Virtuoso-killer
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08/28/2007
How I figured out Aart pulled in 1/4 of a billion in extra gravy $$$
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08/16/2007
Cadence buys ClearShape exactly as I predicted and Lou's take
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08/15/2007
The first 7 interviews at DAC after Gary and I had spoke
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08/08/2007
Gary Smith and I discuss at DAC what's "hot" in EDA for 2007
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06/27/2007
Cadence, New York Times, ST, Freescale, ClearShape, TSMC
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06/25/2007
EDA industry reacts poorly to EE Times laying off Goering
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06/24/2007
Pyxis disappears last minute at Infocast Semicon Venture Fair
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06/20/2007
Is Stabie-Soft ghostwriting the so called "Magma" Virtuoso killer?
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06/18/2007
Some short stories you might have missed at the San Diego DAC
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06/15/2007
Are regurgitated press releases the future of EDA "news" now?
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06/14/2007
After 17 years of covering EDA, EE Times axes Richard Goering!
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06/11/2007
Confirmed -- Mentor buys Sierra to stop being Donut Company
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06/07/2007
Wednesday DAC show floor rumor Synopsys is acquiring ArchPro
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06/06/2007
Crowds at PrimeYield LCC demo; Magma hints at Virtuoso killer
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06/05/2007
Cooley missed out on CLK DA; Goering's Must See list is lame
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06/04/2007
Rumor Cadence might go private; Erach Desai predicts layoffs
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06/02/2007
Late Friday, Synplicity acquires Hardi AB for 24ドル.2 million cash
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05/22/2007
Watch out Cadence Virtuoso! and Magma rumors on SiCanvas
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05/21/2007
Cadence rumors on ClearShape and Richard Goering's response
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05/16/2007
Mentor rumored to have bought Sierra as my column predicted
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05/15/2007
Prepping for DAC -- instructions for the My Cheesy Must See List
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05/10/2007
Cadence rumored in talks to buy tiny CommandCAD DFM start-up
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04/13/2007
I'm all by myself having to count up over 800 user responses
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03/14/2007
The Anna Nicole Smith connection to the missing Pyxis CEO
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03/10/2007
Just like Aprio, the Pyxis CEO is now mysteriously missing
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03/07/2007
The video of the "undignified" DVcon 2007 Troublemakers Panel
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03/01/2007
A poker player's analysis of the Synopsys vs. Magma lawsuit
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02/28/2007
Exactly why did Synopsys pay 36ドル million to buy Superlog?
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02/27/2007
Peggy does a weird Church Lady call for "dignity" in EDA
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02/26/2007
Lou on press releases, "sales" releases, and EDA marketing
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02/22/2007
The CEO from Blaze DFM confirms the Aprio takeover rumor
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02/18/2007
Blaze DFM in rumored Aprio rescue plus 10ドル million new funding
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02/14/2007
George releases the Bluespec designs in its challenge to Forte
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02/13/2007
Magma PR says 2 days; in real life it's over 4 weeks of late nights
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02/12/2007
Synopsys is giving me the royal runaround on fixing Cosmoscope
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02/09/2007
Why can't today's EDA tools do real multi-core multi-threading?
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02/07/2007
When is Open Access actually going to become an open database?
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02/05/2007
PrimeTime user disappointed with today's gate level simulation
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12/21/2006
Has anyone anywhere done a real signoff with Cadence ETS?
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12/20/2006
"We Three Kings of EDA" and "Hark! The Jasper Angels Sing!"
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12/19/2006
Carl's top 10 selling books at DVcon, DAC, and ICCAD 2006
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12/18/2006
surly designer in Japan suggests that Brett learn Bluespec
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12/11/2006
Goering follows up on missing CEO story; big layoffs at Aprio
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12/07/2006
Intel may spy on Magma, but Cadence is indifferent to Infineon
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12/06/2006
DFM should be more DFY and Aprio CEO mysteriously disappears
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12/05/2006
a whole bunch of letters about the Weird Al nerd parody video
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11/30/2006
Gary tells his side of the Gartner EDA pullout and his new start-up
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11/29/2006
A look into the secret world of the Cooley incoming email box
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11/28/2006
Funny! Cadence tries to pose as a serious Scan/ATPG player!
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11/21/2006
"I'm nerdy in the extreme; I'm whiter than sour cream..."
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11/17/2006
GSPx CEO calls for an audit to correct for Gabe's "inaccuracies"
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11/14/2006
Synopsys Marketing cleverly implied a false FastScan rumor
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11/08/2006
Mike Fister to maybe stop being the George Bush of EDA?
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11/07/2006
Gabe reports less than 200 people showed up at GSPx conference
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11/02/2006
Should I call shenanigans on these Synopsys TetraMAX claims?
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10/31/2006
VDC is only tentative in ESL and iSuppli not covering EDA at all
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10/19/2006
Holy crap! Gary Smith & the Gartner EDA team were chopped!
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10/18/2006
Ken McElvain from HP lacky to Mentor R&D to Synplicity founder
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10/13/2006
the Queen knights Pulsic VP for overblown DFM marketing hype
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10/12/2006
it pains me greatly to complement Cadence Corporate Marketing
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10/10/2006
Jeremy says the DFM deathwatch should not include Pulsic
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10/03/2006
sinking of the Titanic and the great DFM start-up death watch
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10/02/2006
the Slashdot poll on "what was your first programming language?"
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09/28/2006
Structured ASICs are "not dead yet" says technopsychic Clive
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09/27/2006
Gary bravely takes ESL forward while I dully look backwards
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09/25/2006
an open naming contest for when Mentor and Magma merge
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09/22/2006
two Cadence "Precisions" bad enough, but now two "Catenas"?
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09/20/2006
ARM R&D tips groundbreaking research at Boston SNUG
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09/15/2006
That PR advocate changes his mind and the Santarini response
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09/14/2006
An outspoken PR advocate takes Santarini & I to task on spin
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09/13/2006
Cadence, IBM, Santarini and my weird little debt of honor
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09/07/2006
Synopsys laid off 2% in August; central marketing czar rumored
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08/31/2006
Rajeev busted for ICcompiler.com domain registration whopper
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08/28/2006
Two recent quickie polls hint at a grim future for U.S. chip design
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08/24/2006
AmmoCore and TransEDA are both oddly back from the dead?
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08/22/2006
Gary's more into pretending while I'm more into actually making
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08/17/2006
Did the DAC Committee put a voodoo curse on Cadence?
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08/14/2006
DAC lesson #54 -- you can't stop a Janick when he's determined
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08/10/2006
Filmed live from the DAC floor, Cooley's Best of DAC 06 videos
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08/07/2006
Hey! I also got played on the Cadence Precision Router launch
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08/06/2006
Cliff is chief suspect as author of the 6 DAC mystery limericks
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08/04/2006
Gary warns of personnel problems and arrogance at Cadence
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08/03/2006
Gabe on the "signs of intelligent life" missing at Cadence
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08/02/2006
a chip designer who felt Cadence was "disrespectful" at DAC
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08/01/2006
Clive on Fintronic adding fixed- & floating-point to Verilog
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07/31/2006
six scathing anonymous limericks mysteriously left for me at DAC
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07/27/2006
DAC Scoop -- Cadence pulls out of DAC Exhibits for next year
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07/23/2006
two European ESL start-ups claim anti-ESL bias in Cheesy list
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07/13/2006
evil Synopsys marketing says TransEDA wasn't a recent threat
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07/11/2006
the Prolific CEO thanks me for my Prolific vs. Zenasis story
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07/10/2006
Silicon Dimensions is closed; SDS fakes that it'll be at DAC
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07/07/2006
the Zenasis CEO scolds me for my Prolific vs. Zenasis story
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07/03/2006
FTL CEO says that Infineon endorsing OneSpin is kosher
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06/27/2006
Texas Aggie prof agrees X Architecture claims inflated
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06/26/2006
free milk kills off TransEDA; are Atrenta and Novas next?
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06/16/2006
the Athena CEO warns that Cadence is being a bad gorilla
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06/15/2006
Cadence is setting up to poach the DAC floor show customers
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06/12/2006
Sawicki's ballsy 800ドル million growth in 4 years prediction
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06/07/2006
actually Magma's R&D dollars have been growing all along
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06/06/2006
Rajeev hits 1,201; Santarini 983; Hercules 629, and DAC
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06/04/2006
the "EDA Peggy" Impossible Last Name Spelling Contest
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06/02/2006
hope vs. predict in the Synopsys vs. Magma trial
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06/01/2006
two Infineon engineers refute my OneSpin comments
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05/31/2006
the false rumor about the Cadence Simplex X Architecture
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05/25/2006
some backdoor gossip about the Synopsys-Virtio acquisition
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05/24/2006
ReShape remains to Magma; Tera Systems likely died at LSI
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05/23/2006
the 6 slip-ups in EDA Peggy's pre-DAC vendor survey
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05/22/2006
Blaze DFM hits a 7.2 on the bullshit Richter scale
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05/19/2006
We're quiet because we're still debugging IC Compiler
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05/16/2006
the olde Sierra DA only hires Indians controversy
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05/15/2006
a famous fake Chinese chip with Synopsys physical synthesis
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05/10/2006
the false alarm about customers on allocation at TSMC
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05/09/2006
Silvaco plans to IPO a new, stronger Simucad
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05/08/2006
the pathetic debut of OneSpin Solutions GmbH
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05/06/2006
Virage Logic swings to profit; CFO resigns. Say again?
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