!!!     "It's not a BUG,                            
  /o o\  /  it's a FEATURE!"                                 (508) 429-4357
 (  >  )
  \ - /                     DAC'03 Trip Report:
  _] [_          The We're-Back-In-California DAC in Anaheim
                                 - or -
       492 Engineers Review 2003's Crop of EDA Tools of June 2-6, 2003

                             by John Cooley

       Holliston Poor Farm, P.O. Box 6222, Holliston, MA  01746-6222
     Legal Disclaimer: "As always, anything said here is only opinion."



         "I was gambling in Havana.  I took a little risk.
          Send lawyers, guns and money.  Dad, get me out of this."

                                              - Warren Zevon, 1978


( DAC 03 Subjects ) --------------------------------------------- [ 01/20/04 ]

  Item 1: the DAC numbers
  Item 2: Synchronicity, Cliosoft, Perforce, Interweave
  Item 3: RunTime Flowtracer
  Item 4: SystemC, Mathworks, Mentor Seamless & PrecisionC
  Item 5: Cadence Incisive & TestBuilder
  Item 6: Forte Cynthesizer
  Item 7: Summit Visual Elite, Mentor HDL Designer (Renoir)
  Item 8: CoWare, LisaTek, Target Compiler, Prosilog, VaST, Y Explorations
  Item 9: Celoxica DK Handel-C
 Item 10: Verisity Specman "e" vs. Synopsys Vera vs. System Verilog
 Item 11: 0-in, Jasper, Real Intent
 Item 12: @HDL, Synopsys Magellan (Ketchum)
 Item 13: Avery, Innologic, Averant, Safelogic, Synapticad, Obsidian, Jeda
 Item 14: Verisity SureCov, TransEDA, VeriEZ, Synopsys Leda & CoverMeter
 Item 15: Atrenta SpyGlass
 Item 16: Fishtail Focus
 Item 17: Novas DeBussy & nSchema & Verdi, Veritools Undertow
 Item 18: Axis, Tharas, Quickturn, Pittsburgh, EVE, Aptix, Hardi, Dini Group
 Item 19: Cadence Verplex, Synopsys Formality, Mentor FormalPro, Prover
 Item 20: Mentor FastScan, LogicVision, TetraMAX, Syntest, Genesys, iRoC
 Item 21: Synplicity Synplify & Identify & Certify
 Item 22: Hier Design vs. Synplicity Amplify
 Item 23: ViASIC, Synplicity Structured ASIC
 Item 24: Synopsys
 Item 25: Cadence First Encounter, NanoRoute, CeltIC, Simplex, Get2chip
 Item 26: Magma Blast Fusion/Plan/Rail/Create
 Item 27: Monterey Sonar & Dolphin & Calypso & IC Wizard
 Item 28: Icinergy SoCarchitect
 Item 29: Tera Systems TeraForm, InTime Time Builder
 Item 30: Sequence Physical Studio, Golden Gate, Synplicity Iota, ChipVision
 Item 31: Apache RedHawk-SDL & NSPICE
 Item 32: Nassda HSIM & Hanex & Critic
 Item 33: Cadence Virtuoso, Pulsic, Paragon, Mentor IC Station
 Item 34: Silicon Canvas Laker
 Item 35: Tanner L-Edit & T-Spice, Silvaco SmartSpice
 Item 36: StabieSoft Slam-Edit & Strategy
 Item 37: Manhattan Routing, Inc.
 Item 38: Mentor Calibre & Calibre-XRC & Eldo
 Item 39: NeoLinear, Antrim, Ciranova, Barcelona, ADA, Xpedion
 Item 40: Sagantec, RubiCAD, Bindkey, In2Fab, Q Design
 Item 41: Silicon Metrics, Prolific, Z Circuit, Zenasis, UbiTech
 Item 42: Pinebush Hyperplot
 Item 43: the Best & Worst DAC Parties & Giveaways


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    _] [_         Verilog, VHDL and numerous Design Methodologies.

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