( ESNUG 504 Item 5 ) -------------------------------------------- [05/23/12]
Subject: Questions for Yunshan Zhu, CEO of NextOp
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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Yunshan, what does NextOp do and why should users buy your tool?
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Who do you compete against? Why are you better? Where are you weak?
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Why should we pay extra for BugScope when we can get SNPS/CDNS/MENT
formal verification tools for "free" (or at a heavy discount) as
part of a bundled deal?
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What's the worst FUD that you've had to counter?
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What's your company's exit strategy? Who are you courting out of
the Big Three?
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Where have you hurt one of the Big Three's sales? Give details.
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Assertions capture designer's intent. How can BugScope generate
assertions without reading designer's mind?
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Isn't ABS yet another "make work" verification approach? There's
always yet another formal tool to buy. It never ends.
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Assertion Based Verification has been around for many years. Is it
practical for average engineers or is it formal only for experts?
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What methodologies help to the verification problem? SoC? IP? How?
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Should anyone still do EDA start-ups? Who is funding them?
What's good and bad about bootstrapped startups?
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My question is for Yunshan Zhu, CEO of NextOp: "How are you going
to make money selling a point tool that costs the users almost as
much as their Verilog/VHDL simulator?"
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