> I found out why the Cadence Precision Router (CPR) was so quickly
> renamed within a week of it being first announced; Cadence got a nasty
> "cease-and-desist" letter from the Mentor Legal Department.  Clearly
> none of the geniuses in Cadence Corporate Marketing had ever heard of
> Mentor's Precision RTL synthesis for FPGAs.  "It shows you how amateur
> these Intel execs are that Fister's bringing in," said one informant.
> "Not knowing the industry's product names is a mistake that not even a
> high school dropout would make."  Inside Catena, "Finale" was the
> project code name for CPR; now Cadence Corporate Marketing is trying
> to get the name "Cadence Space-Based Router" (CSBR) to stick.
>
>     - from http://www.deepchip.com/gadfly/gad092106.html


From: Alastair Lefley <alastairl=user domain=innovision-group not calm>

Hi John,

I just had to reply after having read the Cadence Catena story.

I'm based at a small IC design house, Innovision Research & Technology, in
the UK.  We currently do most of our (smallish full-custom design) layout
using Catena.  But this Catena has nothing to do with Cadence.  Do you know
of the Catena which is based in the Netherlands?  See http://www.catena.nl.

It makes the story that Catena was created as a refugee camp in 2001 for
the old CCT R&D gurus even funnier.

    - Alastair Lefley
      Innovision Research & Technology plc       Cirencester, UK


 Editor's Note: To be fair to Fister's hand picked Intel cronies, they
 weren't in Cadence until way after Catena was formed.  This particular
 naming mistake belongs to Bingham's old guard, not Fister's.  - John