!!! "It's not a BUG, jcooley@theworld.com
/o o\ / it's a FEATURE!" (508) 429-4357
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\ - / "One Sheep Farmer's Impressions Of Synopsys & Avanti"
_] [_ (plus what 208 other engineers think, too.)
by John Cooley
Moderator Of The E-mail Synopsys Users Group (ESNUG)
The 13th Annual Synopsys Users Group Meeting (SNUG'03)
at the Doubletree Inn, San Jose, CA, March 17th - 19th, 2003
"Ask me about Astro and I'll tell you it's the dog in the Jetsons.
(Rut rho, Reorge!)"
- Layne Lisenbee of Texas Instruments
( SNUG 03 Subjects ) ----------------------------------------------- [05/14/03]
Item 1: The Synopsys/Avanti Customer Demographics
Item 2: What The SNUG'03 Attendees Liked & Disliked
Item 3: Customers Rate The Best & The Worst Synopsys/Avanti Tools
Item 4: The Bigwig's Big Speech
Item 5: System Verilog (Superlog), SystemC
Item 6: Synopsys VCS, Cadence NC-Sim, Mentor Modelsim, Scirocco
Item 7: Verisity Specman "e", Synopsys Vera, Forte RAVE
Item 8: Ketchum/FormalVera/Magellan, 0-in Check & Search, Verplex BlackTie
Item 9: Design Compiler, Cadence Get2chip, Ambit, Synplicity ASIC, Incentia
Item 10: Behavioral Compiler, Module Compiler, Power Compiler, ECO Compiler
Item 11: Synplicity, Mentor Exemplar, Synopsys FPGA Compiler II
Item 12: DFT Compiler/TetraMAX vs. Mentor DFT Advisor/Fastscan, LogicVision
Item 13: LogicVision BIST, Mentor TestKompress, Synopsys SocBIST, DBIST
Item 14: Synopsys Formality, Verplex LEC, Mentor FormalPro
Item 15: PrimeTime, PrimeTime-SI, Sequence ShowTime & NoiseIT, Cadence Pearl
Item 16: Floorplan Compiler, Avanti Jupiter-XT, Cadence First Encounter
Item 17: PhysOpt, DC, PhysOpt-MPC, Magma, Monterey
Item 18: Avanti Apollo vs. Astro, Magma, Sequence Physical Studio
Item 19: The Problem With Dataquest's Physical Synthesis Stats
Item 20: Mentor Calibre, Avanti Hercules, Cadence Diva/Dracula/Assura
Item 21: Avanti Star-RC, Cadence Fire & Ice, Mentor xCalibre, Sequence
Item 22: NanoSim, Nassda HSIM, Avanti HSPICE, Cadence Spectre, Mentor Eldo
Item 23: User Reactions To The Synopsys/Avanti/Numerical Mergers
Item 24: Those Cheesy Synopsys Galaxy & Verification "Platforms"
Item 25: The Synopsys/Avanti 2003 Report Card
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Trying to figure out a Synopsys bug? Want to hear how 16,808 other users
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!!! "It's not a BUG, jcooley@TheWorld.com
/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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