( SNUG 10 Item 3 ) ---------------------------------------------- [04/22/10]
Subject: What 238 users would NOT change about Synopsys, Inc.
MONEY BUYS YOU LOVE: What the users liked most about Synopsys were
SNUG/Solvnet, specific SNPS tools, and the SNPS techhead culture. The
few happy comments of great support were from the Big Money customers.
A voodoo priestess formerly from New Orleans swaps your soul with
Aart de Geus, CEO of Synopsys. Even though you were a Synopsys
customer before, *you* are now the CEO of Synopsys:
What 2 or 3 Synopsys things would you definitely NOT change?
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Design Compiler
Solvnet is good.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Solvnet - certainly the best EDA vendor support site.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Keep improving Solvnet, SNUG and other information sharing avenues
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Solvnet
SNUG
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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SNUG and DAC are useful.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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SNUG - it's a great conference
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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SNUG
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Recently been impressed with Synopsys IP group. Keep investing in them.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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DC and Primetime. They get the job done.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Maintain PrimeTime dominance. Harvest DC.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Keep working on Multi-Threading you applications.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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VCS is getting better. Primetime still defecto standard for STA
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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verification IP (Smart Models, .....)
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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* they know how to build usable tools (maybe they can teach VaST :-))
* huge technical experience (but only available if they want it)
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Primetime and DC Compiler - at least not a major change.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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1. Design Compiler
2. VCS
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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1. Do not force SDC constraints on Synplify customers!!! If they want
to use them, allow them to, but don't force it!
2. Do not change Synplify.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Don't change the MWLIB model, and don't abandon the TCL interface.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Pushing VMM and advanced logic verification. Synopsys is beating the
pants off of their competitors in this arena.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Keep the public development of VMM
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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I'd keep all of those techheads in R&D. Especially in the P&R branch.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Quality control and innovation they bring to the verification market,
especially to VMM and low-power market.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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strict QA before release.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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technology focus
quality focus
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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DONT CHANGE: Your release process is actually working well. The tools
play nicely together almost all the time now. Capacity and runtime
seems sufficient to the task.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Great customer support they give us, sure we are a big customer, which
gives us some privileges to be well treated, but they do it well.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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I feel like the SNPS AEs have a good attitude towards us the customers,
which is really nice. That's not true of every EDA company.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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1) On site support levels
2) Continue training - even add more available classes
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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* Continuous improvement of existing tools as opposed to creating new
tools with new bugs.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Core technology in front-end tools is pretty good.
Apps consultants seem also to work well.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Acquisition policy
stable company culture (predictability)
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Acquire other companies (LOL)
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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From the distance I would say: Aart is doing pretty well - no need to
swap souls ;-)
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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Nothing is perfect, not even close.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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I dunno... the stock symbol and maybe the product names? I hate when
EDA vendors change product names just to make you think it's a new tool
or to invalidate your old contract with them.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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I really can't think of anything I wouldn't change at Synopsys. Maybe
the company Logo could stay.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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