( ESNUG 311 Item 7 ) ---------------------------------------------- [2/18/99]
From: [ Kenny from South Park ]
Subject: I'm Suspicious Of Buying Any Synopsys/Viewlogic Crossover Products
John,
Some time ago ago I got a letter in the mail. The text of the letter can
be found at:
http://www.viewlogic.com/prezlett/english.html
Which basically states that Viewlogic is again an independant company
from Synopsys.
The way things shook out when the merger happened was that Synopsys sales
(and support) got the ASIC end of things, and "Viewlogic" got the the
board level. "Motive", a tool which Synopsys had been trying to kill for
some time, was finally under their control (evil chuckle), and they
got a decent Verilog compiler (yay!).
Now that the breakup has happened, it looks like things are going in
all different directions. Viewlogic is now selling FPGA_Express, which
was Synopsys's attempt to do FPGAs, and so is Synopsys. Synopsys sells
"PrimeTime", but most still use Motive, and Viewlogic has a tool called
"Blast" now, which looks suspiciously like "Motive" when you invoke it.
VCS can now be purchased from both companies.
What will happen? I have it on good authority that the Viewlogic and
Synopsys sales people hate each other. So, I'm going to hold on to my
current EDA environment, watch the sparks fly, and wait for them to
settle before I do anything new with either of them.
- [ Kenny from South Park ]
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