!!! "It's not a BUG, 
/o o\ / it's a FEATURE!" (508) 429-4357
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\ - / SNUG'05 Synopsys Census:
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A Summary of 207 Emails on Synopsys vs. its Rivals
by John Cooley
Moderator Of The E-mail Synopsys Users Group (ESNUG)
"I could ask Aart and Ray these questions, but I'd rather hear what
the users have to say about this."
- Garo Toomajanian of Dain Rauscher Wessels in ESNUG 360 #1
( SNUG 05 Subjects ) --------------------------------------------- [12/20/05]
Item 1: The Synopsys Customer Demographics
Item 2: Customers Rate the Best & the Worst Synopsys/Avanti Tools
Item 3: Synopsys Hotline
Item 4: Synopsys Local Support
Item 5: Synopsys SolvNET
Item 6: Synopsys Users Group (SNUG)
Item 7: Synopsys Sales
Item 8: VCS, Vera, System Verilog, Formality, Magellan, DesignWare
Item 9: Design Compiler vs. Cadence Get2chip/Ambit vs. Magma Blast Create
Item 10: Synopsys DFT Compiler/TetraMAX vs. Mentor DFT Advisor/FastScan
Item 11: Sequence Power Theatre vs. Synopsys Power Compiler
Item 12: First Encounter vs. Jupiter-XT vs. Blast Plan Pro
Item 13: PhysOpt/Astro vs. Blast Fusion vs. SoC Encounter
Item 14: IC Compiler vs. Magma Cobra vs. Cadence Encounter GXL
Item 15: Mentor Calibre, Hercules, Cadence Assura/Diva/Dracula, Magma Mojave
Item 16: Star-RCXT, Simplex Fire&Ice, Mentor xCalibre, Magma Quartz
Item 17: PrimeTime-SI vs. CeltIC; VoltageStorm vs. AstroRail vs. BlastRail
Item 18: NanoSim vs. Nassda HSIM vs. UltraSIM; HSPICE vs. Spectre vs. Eldo
Item 19: What Users would Change about Synopsys
Item 20: What Users would NOT Change about Synopsys
Item 21: Users Rate Synopsys Overall
Item 22: About those Shoot-The-Messenger Retribution Fears
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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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