( SNUG 02 Item 8 ) --------------------------------------------- [ 5/15/02 ]
Subject: Synopsys 'Eagle-i', NDA 'Ketchum', & NDA 'Verification Analyst'
LOST OR PRESUMED DEAD? Last year Eagle-i, a C tool, quietly disappered from
the SNUG radar screen. Apparently it had died, & nobody noticed. (See
SNUG 01 #26.) This year, two Synopsys tools ('Ketchum' & 'Verification
Analyst') that I had been tracking under the Synopsys NDA cloak have
disappeared. They were verification tools similar to 0-in (SNUG 01 #23).
Dataquest FY 2000 Formal Analysis Market (in $ Millions)
0-in # $1.1 (51%)
Averant # $1.1 (49%)
Total ## $2.2
I know there have been layoffs at Synopsys over the past 8 months. Maybe
Aart just decided that a miniscule $2.2 million market was small potatoes
not worth chasing after.
"Those functional verification guys will all be bought up next year
when that market consolidates. Last count there are 81 of them.
This is ridiculous. It should be 3 or 4."
- Gary Smith of Dataquest
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