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Gary Smith EDA Research comes out with their “Wallcharts” each year, listing all the EDA vendors, broken down by category. Understandably, It’s a wallchart, with lots of names on it, so there is no description of what each company does. So to appease my own curiosity, and as a DFT guy, I thought I’d take his DFT section (which appeared on the CAE EDA 2009 Wallchart) and add my own comments. Click here to read them:

System Verilog was signed off as a standard by IEEE in late 2005. In the 2-1/2 years since, front-end design tools for synthesis and verification have been making significant strides in support of the standard – not without limitations and missteps – but the effort is there. Progress has been made. So [...]