Editor's Note: Three years ago, when Synopsys and Silicon Perspectives
were completely dominating the early physical synthesis tapeout count,
I got a phone call from Scott Hamm of Vitesse. At that time it was
PhysOpt 65, First Encounter 43, Cadence PKS 7, Magma 3, Monterey 0.
Scott: "What's with the counts, John? Helping your Synopsys bosses?"
I was momentarily tweaked. Scott & I have known each other for years.
He was one of the soldiers in my secret army of EDA spies. Scott was one
of those who kept me accurate on backend issues and he was having his fun
trying to agitate me with his "Synopsys bosses" question. It was in this
phone call that Scott convinced me to yet again count the Magma tapeouts.
Scott was right. In the 6 months that had passed, Magma had turned a
corner and had gone from 3 tapeouts to 36 tapeouts. This turned into:
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0374-07.html
The funny thing is the week I had published this, Cadence had run a full
page Virtuoso ad in EE Times with a picture of Scott. I phoned Scott.
Me: "What's with the EE Times ad, Scott? Helping your Cadence bosses?"
I could tell he was momentarily tweaked until he realized it was me.
In honor of his gruff humor and fiery spirit, I would like to remember
Scott Hamm (1961 - 2004) who died 3 months ago of a heart attack at
the age of 42.
- John Cooley
the ESNUG guy
( ESNUG 428 Subjects ) ------------------------------------------ [04/28/04]
Item 1: One Designer's Cadence Quickturn Palladium vs. Axis Benchmark
Item 2: ( ESNUG 424 #1 ) Beta Presto User Seeing Good VHDL ASIC Results
Item 3: Using FastScan & TestKompress for At-Speed Scan Testing with PLLs
Item 4: Ulrich on 0-in, @HDL, BlackTie, RealIntent, Cadence FormalCheck
Item 5: Watch Out -- The DAC Registration People Are Bloody Clueless!
Item 6: ( ESNUG 427 #3 ) That PrimeTime Magic Switch Is Tricky To Use!
Item 7: ( ESNUG 427 #9 ) Nassda's Follow-up To The Lexsim User Review
Item 8: Lawrence's Hands-On Detailed Technical User Review Of CoWare N2C
Item 9: ( ESNUG 424 #5 ) Glitches, Race Conditions, VCS and Verilog-XL
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