( ESNUG 532 Item 7 ) -------------------------------------------- [09/06/13]
Subject: MENT laughs at the CDNS Palladium staff and management reorgs
> They've moved Verification under Charlie Huang, who still remains
> as head of CDNS Sales. It's so Charlie can clean up the Palladium
> mess. It was caught asleep at the wheel a full node behind the new
> Veloce 2 and has been woefully losing sales to MENT since then.
>
> Six weeks ago, after failing an internal CDNS competition, the entire
> old IBM/Quickurn Palladium team (~25 engineers based in New York
> state) was laid off to be replaced by a new team of chip designers
> from Cisco and Tilera. From their prior jobs, these new replacement
> engineers are already experienced taping out TSMC 28 nm chips similar
> to Palladium's architecture. Lip-bu hopes to use them to recover
> emulation by late 2014. Charlie as SVP is a sales stop loss action.
>
> - from http://www.deepchip.com/items/0531-04.html
From: [ Jim Kenney of Mentor ]
Hi, John,
In stark contrast to the turmoil in the Cadence emulation organization,
Mentor's Emulation Division has been outstandingly stable.
Our VP/GM has been in place for 15 years and our Engineering Director began
20 years ago at Virtual Machine Works, acquired by IKOS and then by Mentor.
The Director of our India software team has 15 years with IKOS/Mentor and
our ICE and VirtuaLAB Engineering Director has been in place for 15 years.
In all, the average Mentor emulation R&D tenure is around 10+ years. This
remarkable organizational stability lets us focus on the task at hand;
engineering the best darn emulators in the industry. :)
- Jim Kenney
Mentor Graphics Corp. Wilsonville, OR
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