John Cooley's DeepChip.com http://www.deepchip.com Hands-on user reviews and opinions about EDA tools. Wiretap 08/28 -- 1/4 billion gravy http://www.deepchip.com/wiretap/070828.html How I figured out that Aart pulled in a secret 1/4 of a billion in gravy $$$ on the Intel deal. Gadfly 08/22 -- Herman v Holmes http://www.deepchip.com/gadfly/gad082207.html Wall Street, Intel, Synopsys, The Sopranos, Rajeev, Aart, Mike Fister, AMD, Freescale, Cadence Wiretap 08/16 -- ClearShape http://www.deepchip.com/wiretap/070816.html Cadence buys ClearShape exactly as I predicted and Lou's take on it. Wiretap 08/15 -- DAC vids (I) http://www.deepchip.com/wiretap/070815.html The first 7 interviews at DAC after Gary and I had spoke on the DAC floor Wiretap 08/08 -- Gary and Me http://www.deepchip.com/wiretap/070808.html Gary Smith and I discuss on the DAC floor what's "hot" in EDA for 2007 ESNUG 467 -- benchmark cheating http://www.deepchip.com/posts/0467.html Cadence warns about P&R benchmark cheating. We moved to BlastCreate/Conformal due to a DC bug. The new PrimeTime DMSA tool. Mike Dini eviscerates Synplicity for Hardi. The best selling books at DAC'07. Anyone compare Atrenta Spyglass CDC vs. Cadence Conformal CDC? ESNUG 466 -- System Verilog http://www.deepchip.com/posts/0466.html Stu & Don's infamous 58 Verilog and System Verilog gotchas