( DAC'17 Item 1c ) ------------------------------------------------ [11/09/17]
Subject: Mentor InFact was pretty much an early No Show in the PSS tool wars
WHERE'S WALDO (BACK AT YA!): When Anirudh attacked MENT's Calibre franchise
with his CDNS launch of Pegasus DRC, on the DAC'17 Troublemakers Panel,
Joe Sawicki very cleverly countered by saying:
"Pegasus is a mythical beast -- I'm having trouble finding it in
the market."
- Joe Sawicki commenting on CDNS Pegasus (ESNUG 567 #1)
In effect, Sawicki pulled a "Where's Waldo?" on Anirudh. Now, with these
"Best of 2017" user census results, CDNS gets to do the exact same tactic
back at MENT.
That is, while at DAC in Austin, I talked with Ravi Subramanian, the new
4-months-in-the-job VP & GM of All AMS and Digital Simulation at Mentor
(with the "and Digital" being new for Ravi; he's done SPICE at MENT ever
since they acquired him and BDA back in 2013). When I said "it looks like
Portable Stimulus is going to be hot at DAC this year", Ravi replied with
something like:
"Yes, our InFact is doing really well blah blah blah customer
traction blah blah blah graph-based PSS blah blah blah...
I can't remember his exact words from that time.
Now, with Anirudh's Perspec getting 3,097 words from 33 users about Perspec;
and even Aart's Unannounced Mystery PSS tool getting 188 words from 3 users
in this survey -- it's embarrassing that Siemens MENT Questa inFact PSS
only got 24 words in 2 throwaway user comments here... So I'll just ask
now before Anirudh asks later: "Where's Waldo, Ravi?"
"Show me the money!"
- Tom Cruise quote from the film Jerry Maguire (1996)
"Tell me, and I will forget.
Show me, and I may remember.
Involve me, and I will understand."
- Confucius, Chinese philosopher (551 BC - 479 BC)
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
- Linus Torvalds, Finnish SW engineer (1969 - present )
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QUESTION ASKED:
Q: "What were the 3 or 4 most INTERESTING specific EDA tools
you've seen this year? WHY did they interest you?"
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Maybe InFact? Not sure. We're new to PSS.
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Looking at PSS. Perspec, Breker, possibly InFact. We're
a Cadence house, so Perspec gets 1st consideration.
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[ WHAT FOLLOWS ARE THE 31 EMPTY SLOTS FOR THE MISSING USER COMMENTS
Mentor InFact WOULD HAVE IF IT WAS COMPETITIVE TO Cadence Perspec. ]
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