> 10.) Berkeley AFS NAO -- their Noise Analysis Option was just announced
>      this year.  "It's the first tool to provide practical transistor-
>      level device noise analysis for ADCs and fractional-N PLLs."
>      (booth 2641)  Ask for Glenn Crosby.  Freebie: flashlight pens
>
>      . . .
>
> 11.) Berkeley AFS NAO -- their Noise Analysis Option was just announced
>      this year.  "It's the first tool to provide practical transistor-
>      level device noise analysis for ADCs and fractional-N PLLs."
>      (booth 2641)  Ask for Glenn Crosby.  Freebie: flashlight pens
>
>         - from http://www.deepchip.com/gadfly/gad060608.html


From: Paul Estrada <paul.estrada=user domain=berkeley-da not calm>

Hi, John,

Thanks for putting out the list again this year and for the Berkeley
Design Automation mentions.

I got to thinking about your list the way that you might think about a
similar list. I know, dangerous. I ran a simple analysis like you might
run and just counted the number of EDA company mentions in your list.
Here's the result:

    9: Synopsys
    8: Magma
    7: Mentor
    3: Cadence, Atrenta, Denali, Extreme
    2: Apache, Berkeley DA, Synplicity (now part of Synopsys)
    1: all the rest

What's that tell you?  It tells me that Cadence has pretty much fallen
off the DAC radar. The numbers are small, but it also may indicate (I
write hopefully) that the smaller EDA companies mentioned more than
once may be the ones to watch.

Of course, I only sent this to you because Berkeley Design Automation
has a pretty good showing. :^)  See you at DAC.

    - Paul Estrada
      Berkeley DA                                Santa Clara, CA


[ Editor's Note: Paul worked many years as a VP at Cadence.  - John ]