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01/18/2010 AtopTech oddly co-announces profitability and replacing management more
01/17/2010 Dan Nenni on climbing wafer counts yet EDA revenue stalling more
01/14/2010 Rivals laugh at Synopsys annual PrimeTime 2X speed-up claims more
01/13/2010 Recent ESNUG contributor, Robert Patti, gets 2009 SEMI award more
01/11/2010 Mentor's Displaced Worker Program has trained 996 engineers more
01/08/2010 Recruiting terrorists? Well then start with the engineers? more
01/07/2010 OK, so maybe Peggy secretly married an Azuro seed investor??? more
01/04/2010 Cooley humbled for dissing Data Design Management "heroes" more
01/01/2010 Tanner EDA marketing says "we're not cheap; we're inexpensive!" more
11/05/2009 Jay Vleeschhouwer's analysis of the 2Q 2009 EDA numbers more
09/01/2009 [last call] -- The BEST and WORST tools at DAC 2009 more
08/12/2009 Reactions to Magma's unexpectedly good Q1 prelim numbers more
08/11/2009 How Synopsys bought crowds at DAC for under $3 per person more
08/10/2009 Joe Costello showed for Oasys, but few showed up for Joe more
08/06/2009 Dave Chapman on "maybe C synthesis has finally grown up" more
08/04/2009 Pre-printed "audience" questions doubted at dull DAC CEO panel more
07/22/2009 Charity of 3 EDA vendors causes big outpouring of goodwill more
07/09/2009 Denali/Springsoft/Atrenta give out 600 DAC passes to laid off more
07/08/2009 EDAC restores "Free Monday" to upcoming DAC in San Francisco more
06/11/2009 Aart secretly punts Rajeev off of the upcoming DAC CEO panel more
06/10/2009 Former Synopsys bigwig's start-up, Xoomsys, goes belly up more
06/09/2009 DATE General Chair to Lou Covey -- "We're not going away" more
06/08/2009 Apache Andrew Yang secretly launches fake independent blog more
06/06/2009 Agilent EEsof -- "rumors of our death are greatly exaggerated" more
06/05/2009 User denied access to supposedly open Magma "Liberate Me" offer more
06/04/2009 EDAC finds it can't win against proud California graduations more
06/02/2009 The recent Cadence-Taray FPGA-PCB deal is too vague to decipher! more
06/01/2009 Last minute both Cadence and Magma decide to return to DAC after all more
05/19/2009 Layoffs, doom and gloom are rumored at Agilent's EEsof EDA Division more
05/18/2009 Lou Covey -- "this was to be the last year of DATE" more
05/17/2009 LogicVision merger gives Mentor a lock on Logic BIST more
05/13/2009 IC Manage's survey accidentally confirms the Catapult C survey more
05/12/2009 CNBC Jim Cramer's Cadence stock recommendation has zero impact more
05/11/2009 DesignCon 2009 attendance wasn't down 40%, more like down 5% more
04/09/2009 84% of EDA exhibitors bail on showing at DATE'09 in Europe more
04/08/2009 Chip sales for 2009 predicted to be down 13 to 28 percent more
04/07/2009 John Tanner -- "What I learned in 20 years of Analog IC EDA" more
04/06/2009 DVcon 2009 attendance down 17%; will DesignCon be down 40%? more
04/04/2009 Female engineer furious at Altium's "booth babe" letters more
02/19/2009 Hardware design today involves far too many stupid languages more
02/17/2009 Sequence PowerArtist wins DesignCon award in weird category more
02/11/2009 EE Times rumors say Magma might go private or bought by Cadence more
02/10/2009 Altium "booth babe" was most memorable thing at DesignCon'09 more
01/08/2009 Exactly who is this "Lip-Bu Tan" that Cadence just made CEO? more
12/11/2008 47 EDA people fully qualified to replace Mike Fister as CEO more
10/15/2008 Hallelujah! Mike Fister and 4 of his cronies resign from CDNS! more
07/28/2008 Citigroup analyst questions Mike Fister's leadership of Cadence more
06/27/2008 Gary Smith with anti-Trust on the Cadence takeover of Mentor more
06/24/2008 The BEST and WORST tools at the recent DAC 2008 You choose! more
06/17/2008 The letter Mike Fister sent Wally Rhines for the hostile bid more
06/08/2008 Synplicity CEO says its "business as usual" after SNPS merger more
06/07/2008 Former Cadence VP on Cadence "falling off the radar" at DAC more
06/06/2008 Bluespec warns that Forte & Mentor CatapultC are proprietary more
06/04/2008 A first peek at the Synopsys "Orion", their Virtuoso-killer more
05/29/2008 Prep for DAC and instructions for the My Cheesy Must See List more
05/15/2008 Video of Wally Rhines on test in his DVcon'08 keynote address more
05/08/2008 Video of this year's Troublemaker's Panel at the recent DVcon more
02/27/2008 Video of Rajeev announcing "Titan", his new Virtuoso-killer more
08/28/2007 How I figured out Aart pulled in 1/4 of a billion in extra gravy $$$ more
08/16/2007 Cadence buys ClearShape exactly as I predicted and Lou's take more
08/15/2007 The first 7 interviews at DAC after Gary and I had spoke more
08/08/2007 Gary Smith and I discuss at DAC what's "hot" in EDA for 2007 more
06/27/2007 Cadence, New York Times, ST, Freescale, ClearShape, TSMC more
06/25/2007 EDA industry reacts poorly to EE Times laying off Goering more
06/24/2007 Pyxis disappears last minute at Infocast Semicon Venture Fair more
06/20/2007 Is Stabie-Soft ghostwriting the so called "Magma" Virtuoso killer? more
06/18/2007 Some short stories you might have missed at the San Diego DAC more
06/15/2007 Are regurgitated press releases the future of EDA "news" now? more
06/14/2007 After 17 years of covering EDA, EE Times axes Richard Goering! more
06/11/2007 Confirmed -- Mentor buys Sierra to stop being Donut Company more
06/07/2007 Wednesday DAC show floor rumor Synopsys is acquiring ArchPro more
06/06/2007 Crowds at PrimeYield LCC demo; Magma hints at Virtuoso killer more
06/05/2007 Cooley missed out on CLK DA; Goering's Must See list is lame more
06/04/2007 Rumor Cadence might go private; Erach Desai predicts layoffs more
06/02/2007 Late Friday, Synplicity acquires Hardi AB for $24.2 million cash more
05/22/2007 Watch out Cadence Virtuoso! and Magma rumors on SiCanvas more
05/21/2007 Cadence rumors on ClearShape and Richard Goering's response more
05/16/2007 Mentor rumored to have bought Sierra as my column predicted more
05/15/2007 Prepping for DAC -- instructions for the My Cheesy Must See List more
05/10/2007 Cadence rumored in talks to buy tiny CommandCAD DFM start-up more
04/13/2007 I'm all by myself having to count up over 800 user responses more
03/14/2007 The Anna Nicole Smith connection to the missing Pyxis CEO more
03/10/2007 Just like Aprio, the Pyxis CEO is now mysteriously missing more
03/07/2007 The video of the "undignified" DVcon 2007 Troublemakers Panel more
03/01/2007 A poker player's analysis of the Synopsys vs. Magma lawsuit more
02/28/2007 Exactly why did Synopsys pay $36 million to buy Superlog? more
02/27/2007 Peggy does a weird Church Lady call for "dignity" in EDA more
02/26/2007 Lou on press releases, "sales" releases, and EDA marketing more
02/22/2007 The CEO from Blaze DFM confirms the Aprio takeover rumor more
02/18/2007 Blaze DFM in rumored Aprio rescue plus $10 million new funding more
02/14/2007 George releases the Bluespec designs in its challenge to Forte more
02/13/2007 Magma PR says 2 days; in real life it's over 4 weeks of late nights more
02/12/2007 Synopsys is giving me the royal runaround on fixing Cosmoscope more
02/09/2007 Why can't today's EDA tools do real multi-core multi-threading? more
02/07/2007 When is Open Access actually going to become an open database? more
02/05/2007 PrimeTime user disappointed with today's gate level simulation more
12/21/2006 Has anyone anywhere done a real signoff with Cadence ETS? more
12/20/2006 "We Three Kings of EDA" and "Hark! The Jasper Angels Sing!" more
12/19/2006 Carl's top 10 selling books at DVcon, DAC, and ICCAD 2006 more
12/18/2006 surly designer in Japan suggests that Brett learn Bluespec more
12/11/2006 Goering follows up on missing CEO story; big layoffs at Aprio more
12/07/2006 Intel may spy on Magma, but Cadence is indifferent to Infineon more
12/06/2006 DFM should be more DFY and Aprio CEO mysteriously disappears more
12/05/2006 a whole bunch of letters about the Weird Al nerd parody video more
11/30/2006 Gary tells his side of the Gartner EDA pullout and his new start-up more
11/29/2006 A look into the secret world of the Cooley incoming email box more
11/28/2006 Funny! Cadence tries to pose as a serious Scan/ATPG player! more
11/21/2006 "I'm nerdy in the extreme; I'm whiter than sour cream..." more
11/17/2006 GSPx CEO calls for an audit to correct for Gabe's "inaccuracies" more
11/14/2006 Synopsys Marketing cleverly implied a false FastScan rumor more
11/08/2006 Mike Fister to maybe stop being the George Bush of EDA? more
11/07/2006 Gabe reports less than 200 people showed up at GSPx conference more
11/02/2006 Should I call shenanigans on these Synopsys TetraMAX claims? more
10/31/2006 VDC is only tentative in ESL and iSuppli not covering EDA at all more
10/19/2006 Holy crap! Gary Smith & the Gartner EDA team were chopped! more
10/18/2006 Ken McElvain from HP lacky to Mentor R&D to Synplicity founder more
10/13/2006 the Queen knights Pulsic VP for overblown DFM marketing hype more
10/12/2006 it pains me greatly to complement Cadence Corporate Marketing more
10/10/2006 Jeremy says the DFM deathwatch should not include Pulsic more
10/03/2006 sinking of the Titanic and the great DFM start-up death watch more
10/02/2006 the Slashdot poll on "what was your first programming language?" more
09/28/2006 Structured ASICs are "not dead yet" says technopsychic Clive more
09/27/2006 Gary bravely takes ESL forward while I dully look backwards more
09/25/2006 an open naming contest for when Mentor and Magma merge more
09/22/2006 two Cadence "Precisions" bad enough, but now two "Catenas"? more
09/20/2006 ARM R&D tips groundbreaking research at Boston SNUG more
09/15/2006 That PR advocate changes his mind and the Santarini response more
09/14/2006 An outspoken PR advocate takes Santarini & I to task on spin more
09/13/2006 Cadence, IBM, Santarini and my weird little debt of honor more
09/07/2006 Synopsys laid off 2% in August; central marketing czar rumored more
08/31/2006 Rajeev busted for ICcompiler.com domain registration whopper more
08/28/2006 Two recent quickie polls hint at a grim future for U.S. chip design more
08/24/2006 AmmoCore and TransEDA are both oddly back from the dead? more
08/22/2006 Gary's more into pretending while I'm more into actually making more
08/17/2006 Did the DAC Committee put a voodoo curse on Cadence? more
08/14/2006 DAC lesson #54 -- you can't stop a Janick when he's determined more
08/10/2006 Filmed live from the DAC floor, Cooley's Best of DAC 06 videos more
08/07/2006 Hey! I also got played on the Cadence Precision Router launch more
08/06/2006 Cliff is chief suspect as author of the 6 DAC mystery limericks more
08/04/2006 Gary warns of personnel problems and arrogance at Cadence more
08/03/2006 Gabe on the "signs of intelligent life" missing at Cadence more
08/02/2006 a chip designer who felt Cadence was "disrespectful" at DAC more
08/01/2006 Clive on Fintronic adding fixed- & floating-point to Verilog more
07/31/2006 six scathing anonymous limericks mysteriously left for me at DAC more
07/27/2006 DAC Scoop -- Cadence pulls out of DAC Exhibits for next year more
07/23/2006 two European ESL start-ups claim anti-ESL bias in Cheesy list more
07/13/2006 evil Synopsys marketing says TransEDA wasn't a recent threat more
07/11/2006 the Prolific CEO thanks me for my Prolific vs. Zenasis story more
07/10/2006 Silicon Dimensions is closed; SDS fakes that it'll be at DAC more
07/07/2006 the Zenasis CEO scolds me for my Prolific vs. Zenasis story more
07/03/2006 FTL CEO says that Infineon endorsing OneSpin is kosher more
06/27/2006 Texas Aggie prof agrees X Architecture claims inflated more
06/26/2006 free milk kills off TransEDA; are Atrenta and Novas next? more
06/16/2006 the Athena CEO warns that Cadence is being a bad gorilla more
06/15/2006 Cadence is setting up to poach the DAC floor show customers more
06/12/2006 Sawicki's ballsy $800 million growth in 4 years prediction more
06/07/2006 actually Magma's R&D dollars have been growing all along more
06/06/2006 Rajeev hits 1,201; Santarini 983; Hercules 629, and DAC more
06/04/2006 the "EDA Peggy" Impossible Last Name Spelling Contest more
06/02/2006 hope vs. predict in the Synopsys vs. Magma trial more
06/01/2006 two Infineon engineers refute my OneSpin comments more
05/31/2006 the false rumor about the Cadence Simplex X Architecture more
05/25/2006 some backdoor gossip about the Synopsys-Virtio acquisition more
05/24/2006 ReShape remains to Magma; Tera Systems likely died at LSI more
05/23/2006 the 6 slip-ups in EDA Peggy's pre-DAC vendor survey more
05/22/2006 Blaze DFM hits a 7.2 on the bullshit Richter scale more
05/19/2006 We're quiet because we're still debugging IC Compiler more
05/16/2006 the olde Sierra DA only hires Indians controversy more
05/15/2006 a famous fake Chinese chip with Synopsys physical synthesis more
05/10/2006 the false alarm about customers on allocation at TSMC more
05/09/2006 Silvaco plans to IPO a new, stronger Simucad more
05/08/2006 the pathetic debut of OneSpin Solutions GmbH more
05/06/2006 Virage Logic swings to profit; CFO resigns. Say again? more

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