Archive for February 2008

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New vs. Old Media in the land of EDA

I love this: JL Gray of CoolVerification blogged about a recent experience, taking part in a roundtable discussion to be published in DACeZine (a fairly new on-line publication put out by the organizers of DAC). It’s unclear whether the discussion, titled “Changing communications channels within the electronics industry”, was intended to touch on traditional [...]

Another one bites the dust?

Just saw this over at DeepChip:

Did you hear Mike Santarini of EDN just got laid off on Friday??
This means the 3 biggest independents (Gartner/EETimes/EDN) that

  used to cover EDA have pretty much killed off their EDA coverage.

  Cadence stock is crashing. Fewer young faces do chip design now.

  Are we [...]

DFM/DFY/DFT – The key to future profitability in the chip business

Now let’s face it: Design for Manufacturing (DFM) is the hottest sector of the EDA industry. Everything else is, well, meh. From what I can gather, there are those who feel the sector of [...]