( ESNUG 542 Item 3 ) -------------------------------------------- [05/27/14]
Subject: Questions for Dean Drako, CEO of IC Manage
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
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QUESTIONS FOR DEAN DRAKO
Dean -
Rajeev left EDA once he made his money.
Andrew Yang is leaving EDA with his money.
Andy Bechtolsheim left with his EDA money.
Why do investor bail on EDA once they get their money?
And why haven't you bailed?
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Now that BDA and Jasper have been acquired, does that mathematically
make IC Manage one of the top 4 private EDA companies?
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I heard IC Manage has lots of cash in the bank so now they've started
talking to companies about acquisition. True or False?
What's Dean's secret formula for a good acquisition or merger?
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Dean, you listed 15 gotchas/features for IP/DDM evals.
What are your top 3?
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For Dean:
You said 80% of companies now do multi-site design.
Do remote sites get treated differently from local teams?
What's the biggest problem managing multi-site teams?
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Doesn't having multi-site development create security issues?
The Kool-AID you sell to promote this will bite us later.
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What's this Big Data stuff you're now pushing?
Isn't this just repacked Data Management stuff rehashed?
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Dean says we have to save our design data now for Big Data
analytics later.
What data do we need to store and for how long?
Do I need to save my daughter's prom date photos from 1998?
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Isn't it still cooler for a designer to make their own IP
vs reuse someone else's?
Did your IP Reuse advice last year flop?
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For Dean: why are IC design groups so slow to adopt the IP reuse
best practices from the software industry?
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Why haven't any of the big 3 EDA vendors ever gone into design
management?
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Dean, can EDA companies go IPO anymore?
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