( ESNUG 551 Item 10 ) ------------------------------------------- [09/15/15]
Subject: SCOOP! -- rumor is Calypto is merging back into Mentor Graphics!
WAAAAY BACK IN AUGUST 2011 DEEPCHIP.COM BROKE THIS STORY:
> Mentor rumored to have traded its Catapult C division for Calypto
>
> From: [ A Little Bird ]
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:49:45
>
> Hi, John,
>
> This memo was sent internally inside MENT today to its Catapult C people:
>
> "Effective on August 31, 2011, the High Level Synthesis organization,
> which produces Catapult C, will become part of a new entity with
> Calypto Design Systems.
>
> As part of this move, the majority of the team, which is primarily
> based in Wilsonville, will become employees of Calypto. Mentor
> will be a majority shareholder in Calypto, and will be
> represented on the board by Brian Derrick and John Lenyo.
>
> Employees in the US were informed of this change today. Employees
> in Cairo and India will be informed tomorrow.
>
> Effective immediately, FPGA Synthesis, which produces Precision, will
> become part of SDD. FPGA Synthesis and the BSD group within SDD share
> a very similar set of customers, which, combined with Henry's track
> record of successful leadership, provides an opportunity to
> reinvigorate this product area.
>
> Also effective immediately, the Design Creation product line will become
> part of ESD. Glenn's experience with this set of technologies and
> marketplace, and commonalities in targeting software designers, make
> this a promising partnership. Design Creation includes multiple
> products, including HDL Designer, Visual Elite, Certe, ReqTracer, and
> Vista.
>
> As a result of these changes, the DCS division will cease to exist as
> a standalone entity.
>
> Please keep me anonymous on this.
>
> - http://www.deepchip.com/wiretap/110825.html
From: [ John Cooley of DeepChip.com ]
Hi, all,
Way back in August 2011, DeepChip broke the news that Mentor was giving its
Catapult C away to help form Calypto. That was 4 years ago.
I've now heared rumors that last Friday (five days ago), Sanjiv Kaul sent
out an internal email to all 70 to 100 Calypto employees saying that Calypto
will be rejoining Mentor Graphics.
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If these rumors are true, they're a bit of a surprise. Why I say that is
ever since Sanjiv took over the reins of Calypto back in Feb 2013, it seems
that everything has gone well.
The customers really liked Catapult back at DAC'13 and DAC'14:
Calypto Catapult HLS trounces Forte, C-to-S, and SNPS at DAC'13
http://www.deepchip.com/items/dac13-06.html
Calypto Catapult beats Cadence Forte/C2S for #3 tool at DAC'14
http://www.deepchip.com/items/dac14-03.html
While at the same time Catapult rival Forte Cynthesizer was floundering:
Cadence to acquire Forte Cynthesizer at a rumored fire sale price
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0537-03.html
And Aart de Geus doesn't even bother to give gratuitous lip service to his
failed Synphony C Compiler in his SNUG keynotes any more...
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Calypto's RTL PowerPro also did well at DAC'13 and good at DAC'14:
Calypto PowerPro vs. Atrenta Spyglass Power was #3 at DAC'13
http://www.deepchip.com/items/dac13-03.html
Calyto PowerPro, SpyGlass Power, Ansys PowerArtist #9 DAC'14
http://www.deepchip.com/items/dac14-09.html
While at the same time rival Ansys Apache PowerArtist was undergoing
internal regime change troubles when CEO Andrew Yang left Ansys without
a viable general manager to take his place!
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And for special technology, Calypto SLEC is the chip design world's only
commercial sequential equivalence checker. All the other LEC tools like
Cadence Verplex Conformal or Synopsys Formality are combinational. And
since C-based design is state-intentive, sequential EC is needed there.
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Although rejoining Daddy MENT is mostly just an org chart change (since MENT
already has a 51% stake in Calypto), I still don't 100% believe this rumor.
Sanjiv even got a Catapult business deal with Google and Google even let
Calypto publically brag about it???
(How often does Google let *anyone* use their name for *anything*???)
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My sources also say that after the deal is closed, Badru Agarwala, the
former CEO of Axiom -- which got acquired by MENT in 2013 -- will be the
new GM in charge of the Mentor Calypto business unit. My guess is that the
"Calypto" name will probably very quickly go away, but that Catapult, SLEC,
and PowerPro will keep being called what they're called now.
The conjecture my sources give for this MENT/Calypto reabsorption is that
since Cadence sales is getting some traction pushing their Forte Cynthesizer
C-to-Silicon HLS, Mentor wants their own sales team doing the same with
Catapult HLS. The idea is to take advantage of Synopsys' weakness in
HLS/SystemC/ANSI C++ synthesis.
- John Cooley
DeepChip.com Holliston, MA
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