( ESNUG 504 Item 4 ) -------------------------------------------- [05/23/12]
Subject: Questions for Doug Aitelli, CEO of Calypto
Cooley's DAC 2012 Troublemaker's Panel
Date/Time: Monday, June 4, 3:00-4:00 pm
Location: DAC conference room # 256
IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND THIS DAC PANEL, SIGN-UP HERE
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Why did Mentor sell off Catapult to Calypto? Did Icahn force it?
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Are you a subsidiary of Mentor or not? Please explain.
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Why do folks need another RTL power analysis tool? What's the
difference between Calypto, Apache and Atrenta?
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Don't designers want to control their RTL vs automatic optimization?
Isn't the hassle in re-verifying the RTL not worth the automation?
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What's happened to Catapult now that it merged with Calypto?
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For Mentor and Calypto:
1. Has High level synthesis totally saturated its market?
Is every user EDA can sell this to already using it?
2. Does EDA have any interest in "ESL" or "System Level"
beyond the 2 obvious areas (which were both tried in
the 90's as well, and the 2000s, and....) of High Level
Synthesis and Virtual Prototypes?
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Calypto seems to have stopped pushing its SLEC and CatapultC
SystemC tools in lieu of its RTL PowerPro tools. Did the
money leave the ESL market?
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Cadence C-to-S, Forte Cynthesizer, Synopsys Synfora, Catapult C
are all struggling. Where do you see this niche in 5 years?
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How does C-based Calypto survive in an EDA world that secretly
wants it to fail? If your SystemC design and simulation takes
off, it'll poison $100's of millions in VCS/Questa/Incisive
plus Design Compiler and RTL Compiler sales.
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