!!! "It's not a BUG, 
/o o\ / it's a FEATURE!" (508) 429-4357
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347 Engineers Review 2005-2006's Crop of EDA Tools
by John Cooley
Moderator Of The E-mail Synopsys Users Group (ESNUG)
"Anecdotally, Magma's tools sound like they are killing Synopsys and
Cadence tools in evaluations. If they survive the lawsuit they will
probably be a force to be reckoned with."
- John Weiland of Intrinsix Corp. in ELSE 06 #19
( ELSE 06 Subjects ) --------------------------------------------- [06/23/06]
Item 1: What the? What happened to the DAC Trip Report?
Item 2: Mathworks Matlab & Simulink, Elanix, Xilinx Accelchip, CoWare SPW
Item 3: Target Compiler Checkers/Chess, Critical Blue
Item 4: Denali Blueprint
Item 5: Mentor Nucleus, Wind River VxWorks, Green Hills, ARM Realview
Item 6: Forte Cynthesizer
Item 7: Mentor Catapult C
Item 8: Synfora Pico, Celoxica Handel-C, Carbon DesignPlayer, Summit
Item 8: Bluespec
Item 10: Synplicity Synplify Pro and Synplify DSP
Item 11: Synplicity Identify and Premier (Amplify)
Item 12: ViASIC ViaPath/ViaMask, LSI RapidChip, Altera Hardcopy, Magma SA
Item 13: Mentor Precision vs. Leonardo Spectrum
Item 14: Xilinx Webpack, Altera Quartus II, Actel Libero
Item 15: Synopsys DC-FPGA
Item 16: Fishtail Focus/Refocus vs. Blue Pearl
Item 17: Mentor Calibre DRC/LVS
Item 18: Magma Mojave Quartz DRC/LVS
Item 19: Magma Blast Fusion, -Rail, -Plan Pro, -ATPG, -DFT, -Power
Item 20: Magma Statistical Timing Analysis, Blade Technology, SiliconSmart
Item 21: Sierra Pinnacle
Item 22: ClearShape InShape
Item 23: Calibre DFM, Aprio, KLA-Tencor, Nannor, ChipMD, LogicVision
Item 24: Mentor Calibre MDP, Xyalis, Brion Technologies
Item 25: Prolific vs. Zenasis
Item 26: Gradient FireBolt
Item 27: Xpedion GoldenGate, AWR, Cadence Spectre RF, Ansoft
( ELSE 06 Jobs Section ) ----------------------------------------- [06/23/06]
Job 1: Santa Clara, CA - Athena Design seeks an EDA R&D developer
Job 2: Framingham, MA - Dafca seeks a senior applications engineer
Job 3: Los Altos, CA - True Circuits seeks a circuit design engineer
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Trying to figure out a Synopsys bug? Want to hear how 21,788 other users
dealt with it? Then join the E-Mail Synopsys Users Group (ESNUG)!
!!! "It's not a BUG,
/o o\ / it's a FEATURE!" (508) 429-4357
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\ - / - John Cooley, EDA & ASIC Design Consultant in Synopsys,
_] [_ Verilog, VHDL and numerous Design Methodologies.
Holliston Poor Farm, P.O. Box 6222, Holliston, MA 01746-6222
Legal Disclaimer: "As always, anything said here is only opinion."
The complete, searchable ESNUG Archive Site is at http://www.DeepChip.com
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