"I love to see the little guy shake up the marketplace, although in
   this case it appears that Synopsys has acquired the technology
   with little fanfare."
                            - Dan Payne on Gemini's odd acquisition

( ESNUG 484 Subjects ) ------------------------------------------ [03/12/10]

 Item  1: A first look at stealth start-up NextOp's assertion synthesis
 Item  2: ( DAC 09 #1 ) Aart's nightmare -- a first look at Oasys RealTime
 Item  3: No SNPS SystemC monopoly because CoWare & VaST are proprietary
 Item  4: EDN Atoptech management data wrong, Jue-Hsien Chern its first CEO
 Item  5: Can we trust that TSMC's 40 nm yield issues are now truly fixed?
 Item  6: VC deals for Silicon Valley start-ups dropped by 30% in 2009
 Item  7: ( ESNUG 483 #2 ) Controversy around Calibre-Quartz benchmark
 Item  8: No evil curse involved in Sandler CEO resignation from SpringSoft
 Item  9: What gotchas get you switching from FPGAs to Cadence Palladium?
 Item 10: We transitioned from Dassault DesignSync to IC Manage in 3 days

( ESNUG 484 Other Stuff ) --------------------------------------- [03/12/10]

  Tech 1: Zocalo on its Assertion Based Verification tool set
            http://www.deepchip.com/look/see100202-01.html






   

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