This year's "undignified" topics were: Magma P&R market share, Vic promoting
outsourcing to India, ClearShape's exit strategy, Cadence Tcl/SKILL/Pcell,
Ciranova, is Open Access open?, the Synopsys-Magma lawsuit, Year of SystemC,
small vs. large DFM vendors, Brion's $270 million buyout, Mentor's donut
problem, Virtuoso 6.1, Cadence CPF vs. UPF, Sequence tools, Forte's CEO exit,
Forte vs. Bluespec, PrimeTime vs. Cadence ETS, the Infineon Magma 2 day
timing closure letter, Magma Quartz vs. Mentor Calibre vs. Cadence PVS, the
worst known EDA market stats, the death of Dataquest, EDAC vs. Gary, price
wars, and "is EDA stagnating?"

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