"Look around you.  Do you see many 50-something engineers?  I don't
  and I wonder.  Do they all transform into real estate agents?  Or
  should I worry about a future as a Walmart greeter?"

                                       - John Busco of Nvidia

( ESNUG 483 Subjects ) ------------------------------------------ [11/30/09]
 
 Item  1: Formality messes up if any non-DC-generated UPF code is used
 Item  2: We recently dumped Mentor Calibre for Magma Quartz DRC/LVS
 Item  3: Is 37 days the world's longest Formality production run?
 Item  4: A User's 5 week block design using Synfora PICO C synthesis
 Item  5: We swapped Dassault (Synchronicity) DesignSync for IC Manage
 Item  6: User's benchmarks of Magma Talus from 1.0.86 to 1.0.91-beta
 Item  7: Calibre nmDRC 6X speed-up from HyperScaling and Hyper Remote
 Item  8: One user's 5 week eval of CatapultC synth vs. hand coded RTL
 Item  9: We saved 14 man-weeks using Magma Hydra for floorplanning
 Item 10: A Fujitsu engineer's detailed evaluation of the EVE ZeBu box
 
( ESNUG 483 Other Stuff ) --------------------------------------- [11/30/09]
 
  Tech 1: Catapult Primers: C synthesis and reducing verification
            http://www.deepchip.com/look/see091119-01.html






   

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