( ESNUG 384 Item 17 ) ------------------------------------------- [12/06/01]
Subject: Aart's Going To Get Sucked Into The Cadence/Avanti Legal Quagmire
Hi John,
Please keep me anonymous.
I'm a CAD support person, so keep that in mind. I generally think it makes
sense for Synopsys. They have made it clear that they want to be able to
handle the back-end design work in close conjunction with synthesis and SoC
designs. It was just a matter of time until they either bought various tools
or created them in-house to fill this need.
Avanti tools generally are thought of highly by the design teams using them
and we were going to be using some of them on our next major project. The
biggest issue is the potential legal problems that Avanti currently has with
Cadence. As long as Synopsys does not get dragged into that, then the
acquisition should be OK, but that is a BIG IF. As I understand it, most of
the legal problems are related to the older tools, so Synopsys could just
leave those alone until the newer ones can replace them and then just dump
the old ones.
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This is a big gamble for Aart. If he's betting on an agreement with Cadence,
he should have a fall back plan or suffer damaging losses. He might be
forced to pay $1 billion to his main rival. Anon please.
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