( ESNUG 323 Item 11 ) --------------------------------------------- [7/22/99]
Subject: Uh, Actually, EDA Vendors Understand Customers Wanting Competition
> "... at Chronologic it took ages before people would speak in public;
> and also at Ambit it was the same. In the early days nobody wants to
> upset their other mainstream suppliers (Cadence, Synopsys, etc.) by
> basically telling them that they are way, way, way behind."
>
> - Simon Davidmann, CEO of Co-Design, who makes Superlog
From: Howard Landman <HowardL@SiTera.com>
I'm not sure that's really true. I was an Ambit beta site, and I spoke up
pretty early, both in private (even though I was limited in what I could
say) and Synopsys was more than happy to send several Very Senior People
to listen to me point out problems in their latch-based synthesis and
elsewhere. Ambit, of course, was also eager to know how their own tool
was doing.) I also spoke out in public (I was a talking head in the Ambit
booth video presentation). I never got any pushback from Synopsys for
doing this, except that they really, really didn't want me to use the
A-word in my SNUG'98 presentation. :-)
- Howard A. Landman
SiTera, Inc. Longmont, CO
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