( ESNUG 462 Item 8 ) -------------------------------------------- [02/15/07]
Subject: Questions for Gary Smith, Gary Smith EDA
Gartner shut down the EDA analysis service because it was not a money maker.
The large EDA vendors are setting up their own "spin-alysis" departments.
How are you going to make it now? Why will the EDA industry pay you now
when they didn't pay Gartner then?
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Gary Smith: Now that you are running your own business, will you now have
your predictions change to something real? Like - ESL is never going to
be a real market?
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In your opinion, which of the EDA editors provides coverage that is the
most useful to the EDA users? To the EDA vendors?
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Since the demise of Dataquest, marketing pukes within EDA Companies now
feel they have license to be even more creative with their EDA marketing
statistics... do you have recent examples of such gross inaccuracies or
exaggerations? Be specific.
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Gary Smith -
Now that you're free from Dataquest how is business going for you?
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In your opinion is there any future for "open source" EDA? Are we going
to see in the future complete systems like Linux?
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Gary Smith (Gary Smith EDA) - Some have stated that one of the reasons
why Gartner dissolved the EDA group was because EDA companies did not invest
in EDA research. Do you think this is true and if so you think the
attitudes amongst the EDA companies have changed since then?
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Why is Gary the last analyst to cover EDA? Why EDA such a weak business?
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Why don't we have Ajay Daga the CEO of Fishtail joining the conference?
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Question for Synopsys/Cadence/Mentor: Will the industry support a
uniform coverage database standard to be shared across all tool vendors,
inclusive of code/line/toggle coverage, functional coverage, formal tool
reachability analysis, etc? The history: Synopsys, Cadence, and Mentor
all appear to be developing their own, propriety coverage databases.
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To Gary Smith:
Is anybody buying your service other than the DVCon panel committee? Why?
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Why did the the IC implementation industry (other than Plato) not see the
switch to multi-CPU machines happening? Why didn't they proactively
pursue it so that when AMD/Intel had machines, you would have code which
scales linearly with # of CPUs? Gary, why didn't you tell EDA vendors to
pursue this?
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Gary: "We have gone from having 1 verification engineer for 2 design
engineers to 4 verification engineers for 1 design engineer - when and
how is that ratio going to change?"
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The joint Si2/Accelera low power workshop last October left no ambiguity.
All the customers reported clearly that the most important feature of a
low power standard is that there is only one standard. Forget Si2, forget
Accellera, Cadence and Synopsys can make this happen if they want to.
Why don't they want to?
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I have just one line of questioning, for Gary Smith. It is how can we trust
his "Hot at DAC" list when you are a consultant-for-pay? Will he select
anything other than his customers and his favorite categories, ESL and DFM?
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Question for Gary Smith:
The internet has changed the market for business info. Many day-to-day info
needs can be satisfied with web searches. Other than to back a VC funding
event, why would anyone need the services of firms such as yours?
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