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Subject: Questions for Joe Sawicki, GM of Design-to-Silicon at Mentor
Cooley's DAC 2014 Troublemaker's Panel
Date/Time: Monday, June 2, 1:30-2:30 pm
Location: Room 236/238, Moscone Center, San Francisco
IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND THIS DAC PANEL, SIGN-UP HERE.
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QUESTIONS FOR JOE SAWICKI
Calibre used the same SKILL interface to Virtuoso ADE that BDA did.
Why did BDA get sued for this, but not Mentor?
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Now that BDA is taking over Mentor AMS, will you now report to Ravi?
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What changes have your heard BDA Ravi is planning to beef up Mentor
in SPICE and full custom?
Why didn't you, Joe Sawicki, implement these changes earlier yourself?
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How is Ravi going to revamp MENT in SPICE and full custom?
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Which tools is Ravi going to kill off first?
What new tools is Ravi going to start?
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Will the Mentor internal bureaucracy crush Ravi?
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I'd like to hear a quick status on the 5 Mentor products:
- what's up with Calibre and its deriavtives?
- what's up with Olympus-SoC?
- what up with Mentor test and scan?
- what's up with Veloce 2?
- what's up with MENT PCB vs. Cadence?
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To Joe:
Synopsys dominates in IP. Cadence is also moving into IP.
Why isn't Mentor trying a 2nd time to get back into IP?
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Why did IP flop at Mentor?
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Has Carl Icahn ever sent Wall and Greg a "Thank You" note for
raising the MENT stock price after he bought in?
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Did MENT really get kicked out of the Cadence Connections program?
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Why does Mentor contractually require customers not to allow Calibre
SVRF to be used with other DRC tools?
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Now that Cadence PVS works at comparable speed with Calibre do you
see some of your market share going to Cadence?
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MENT sales claim 20 nm full custom requires interactive DRC feedback
using Calibre RealTime. Is that true?
Does it matter if feedback is based on the actual signoff rule deck?
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Joe (Ment) -
Wally and Greg told Wall St two years ago that Veloce sales would
pass Palladium sales. It didn't. What went wrong?
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Is raising up from RTL to TLM really where designers want to go,
or is this just a marketing push for new tool sales categories?
Name names and give real data of anyone who's gone TLM.
Have any productivity or TTM gains actually been proven?
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Synopsys and Cadence do these massive "all-you-can-eat" total flow
deals with Intel, Freescale, etc. How does Mentor compete?
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What's going to break after 14 nm? Will we need triple patterning,
source mask optimization, radical OPC, what?
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How is triple patterning going to affects the everyday lives of
IC designers? Will it delay tape-outs?
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10 nm will be hugely expensive! What chips will justify it? Why
not do 3D-IC instead?
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Will GF and Samsung work together or compete at the 10 nm node?
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Do you think EUV will be ready for 10 nm, if ever?
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Is the reduction in process capability in Europe and US a
concern for the industry?
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ST, Samsung, and GlobalFoundries want FD-SOI. TSMC wants FinFET.
Who's going to win and why? What's Mentor betting on?
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Joe:
FinFET vs. FD-SOI - who's going to win and why?
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Joe Sawicki: How important ist he IC/Packaging/PCB Codesign?
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Is Wally bidding on Atoptech? Why or why not?
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Ask Joe if we'll ever find out what Mentor is doing with OASYS?
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When will Mentor buy Atrenta?
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Does Mentor plan to get into the FPGA prototyping business?
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