"Relying on services as a crutch is a reflection of sloppy tool design,
   not an antipiracy strategy."

     - Rajeev Madhavan (CEO of Magma) on Mike Fister's (CEO of Cadence)
       suggestion "to keep EDA software so clunky that designers will
       continue to pay money simply to have access to the developers"
       to thwart hackers.  (Elec Business, 8/1/2005)

( ESNUG 446 Subjects ) ------------------------------------------ [09/01/05]

 Item  1: Cadence Palladium II Benchmarks Honking Fast with Mondo Capacity
 Item  2: Designer Thinks the New Magma Clock Tree Generation Blows Chunks
 Item  3: ( ESNUG 445 #11 ) The Cadence Follow Up On The PT-SI/CeltIC Letter
 Item  4: What the Dirt on Assura-RCX vs. Star-RCXT in a Calibre Evironment?
 Item  5: Bzzzzt!  Wrong.  Denali Doesn't Have a Monopoly on Memory Models
 Item  6: My Life Using VCS, Leda, DC, and System Verilog in a Real Project
 Item  7: Is There a Way to Read Old 9-Track GDSII onto a Modern Computer?
 Item  8: Watch Out; Denali PureSpec PCI Express has Sloppy Documentation
 Item  9: ( ESNUG 443 #9 ) Another Review of Sandwork vs. Mentor & Cadence
 Item 10: I Can't Migrate Data from Synchronicity DesignSync to Clearcase
 Item 11: Hey!  Magma is Also a Serious Player in the Floorplanning Space!
 Item 12: Sequence PhysicalStudio Saved Us When First Encounter Couldn't
 Item 13: The Santarini Report in EDN Magazine about EDA Piracy in China
 Item 14: Synopsys Cosmos LE Made My Job a Living Hell; IC Station Saved It
 Item 15: ( ESNUG 443 #6 ) Simplified Scripts in DC-XG Gets Kick Ass Results
 Item 16: ( DVcon 04 #8 ) Yup, I Hate Those GUI Design Entry Tools, Too
 Item 17: User Seeks Other Users Thoughts On ECSM vs. CCS Liberty Models
 Item 18: How to Hook Up Debussy and Modelsim in an XP/NT Environment
 Item 19: WTF, Pallab?  Manhattan Routing Inc. was Never a DFM/DFY Company!


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