( ESNUG 504 Item 3 ) -------------------------------------------- [05/23/12]
Subject: Questions for Ravi Subramanian, CEO of Berkeley DA
Cooley's DAC 2012 Troublemaker's Panel
Date/Time: Monday, June 4, 3:00-4:00 pm
Location: DAC conference room # 256
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Ravi, what did you do to anger Aart? You were on the 2011 EDAC CEO
panel but not on the 2012 EDAC CEO panel. What happened?
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Ravi, what the heck is EDAC doing for EDA?
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Ravi, since you already have over 100 customers, haven't you pretty
much saturated your niche? How do you plan to grow?
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Anonymous question for Ravi :
Cadence, Synopsys have all you can imagine with respect to SPICE
simulation and are very busy to improve their tools.
At the same time, those two are mainly the ones who would be
interested in BDA.
Since those targets are closed, what is the exit strategy for
investors in BDA?
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BDA has got to be one of EDA's oldest remaining start-ups; why
haven't your VC's had a revolt by now?
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Is it true that Synopsys has tried to buy BDA twice, and failed both
times?
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Why haven't you been bought out by Mentor yet?
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Ravi, how do you deal with the dirty secret that if a Cadence customer
buys BDA, then Cadence will increase the price of everything else so
that the customer winds up having to pay Cadence the same amount of
money whether they buy simulators from Cadence or not?
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Ravi, why do folks need yet another simulator? We've seen many other
'next generation' SPICE start-ups like Gemini, Nasscentric, and
Xoomsys die. Is BDA next in line?
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Is BDA trying to be the new Magma now that Magma is owned by Synopsys?
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Why should companies buy BDA versus Cadence or Synopsys?
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Now that Aart has HSPICE, HSIM, XA, and FineSim is BDA waiting to die?
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