( ESNUG 535 Item 8 ) -------------------------------------------- [01/22/14]
Subject: SCOOP -- leaked SNPS memo confirms SNPS analog/custom reorg rumor
HALF CONFIRMED: While I have yet to get hard confirmation that SNPS SPICE
has moved under Manoj Gandhi's digital verification BU, I did have multple
spies forward this internal SNPS memo citing Paul Lo being "promoted" to
be under Anton Domic:
From: Chi-Foon Chan
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014
To: all-synopsys-employees@synopsys.com
Subject: Organizational Announcement
Dear Fellow Synopsoids,
Happy New Year! We are excited to greet 2014 with important
organizational announcements.
Effective immediately, we are forming a new business group;
the SoC Design Business Group. This business group is formed
by combining IG and AMSG. Please join us in congratulating
Antun Domic as we promote him to Executive Vice President and
GM of this new business group.
Paul Lo will be reporting to Antun in this new business group.
Our corporate staff team remains unchanged with Paul Lo and
Antun Domic as integral members on the team.
We are forming the new SoC Design Business Group to have a more
coherent strategy so we can have
a) More coordinated execution of the "Advanced Design
at Every Node initiative"
b) Tighter value links between IG and AMSG product lines;
ICC-codesign with Custom, PrimeTime-SiliconSmart-HSPICE
correlation, PrimeRail-CSIM EMIR solution
c) More coordinated working flow and foundry collaterals
(Star-RC techfile, Hercules/ICV runsets, custom design
PDKs) for specific segments or regions
There are many more important details that will be necessary to
make this new business group successful. These will include the
organizational and reporting structure of the IG and AMSG staff,
the support infrastructure and how MBO's are measured.
We will take the next few weeks so Antun, Paul and Chi-Foon can
make these decisions.
We will take the time to solicit input, especially from the staff
members of IG and AMSG, and will announce important details before
the end of Q1.
Please join us in congratulating Antun, and support him, Paul and
Chi-Foon as we work during the next few weeks to plan the next
phase of this new business group.
Take care,
- Aart and Chi-Foon
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> SNPS has just raised the white flag of surrender in analog/RF/custom.
> No more analog/custom BU as of Jan 6th.
>
> All SPICE simulation moves to Verification under Manoj Gandhi -- who
> has never touched a transistor in his career.
>
> All custom implementation (Custom Designer, Laker, Ciranova, Helix,
> Magma Titan) moves under Anton Domic -- their digital implementation
> GM. Paul Lo now reports to Anton.
>
> Antun will chop up the custom place and route R&D groups to reuse
> in his digital empire -- and not invest a penny to beat Cadence in
> analog. Instead Anton will invest to kill Cadence in digital.
>
> - from http://www.deepchip.com/items/0535-05.html
From: [ An EDA Rival ]
Hi, John,
Anonymous on this one.
Very interesting and rings true to form. This is the way Chi-Foon
does things and the timing is right being end of fiscal year.
The Synopsys analog initiative is nearly a decade old. It's first
management casualties were Raul Camposano and Don McMillen.
Paul Lo was made GM moving over from physical design and given the
charter to match Cadence. Paul was not that effective, but it was a
Bridge Too Far objective that he was given top down.
Cadence successfully maintained its dominance. Virtuoso and ADE are
excellent products, with good R&D and customer support and Cadence
is good to do business with.
The responsibility for this debacle lies with Aart and Chi-Foon, but
I guess someone had to be the fall guy.
There is no love lost between Manoj and Antun, so there will be no
true efforts to integrate AMS verification with AMS implementation,
so don't expect much emphasis on a single unified AMS environment.
- [ An EDA Rival ]
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> Beyond full custom, Aart has a much bigger problem with Wall Street
> because he's only shown 1% organic revenue growth. With no growth,
> he's forced to go cut costs. My prediction is SNPS has a one-time
> restructuring charge coming.
>
> - from http://www.deepchip.com/items/0535-05.html
From: [ An EDA Rival ]
Financially there is no need for a SNPS reset. See the recent
Needham Growth Conference. SNPS long term backlog, so the lack
of any one product performance is hidden by the success of
other areas.
- [ An EDA Rival ]
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