( ESNUG 360 Item 1 ) --------------------------------------------- [11/02/00]

From: Garo Toomajanian <GToomajanian@dainrauscher.com>
Subject: Wall St. Asks "PhysOpt & Silicon Ensemble -- With Or Without PKS?"

Hi John,

Many of us Wall Street watchers read ESNUG because we're monitoring the
adoption of physical synthesis tools.  From the many customer tape-out
stories we've read in ESNUG, it appears to those of us in the financial
community that Physical Compiler is catching on with designers.  With
Cadence's SE-PKS now released, are designers seeing (or do they anticipate)
any advantage to using SE-PKS with Physical Compiler as compared to using
Physical Compiler and SE *without* PKS features?  Are Physical Compiler
users interested in SE having PKS features?

I could ask Aart and Ray these questions, but I'd rather hear what the users
have to say about this.

    - Garo Toomajanian, Research Analyst
      Dain Rauscher Wessels                      Boston, MA