EDN Senior Editor Mike Santarini covers digital design and the EDA, ASIC, and FPGA industries. [Editor's note: As of Feb. 2008, this blog is no longer active and is presented here for archival purposes.] en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148.html?nid=3003 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:19:42 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/1260021926.html?nid=3003 I attended DesignCon last week and covered two events: “Where’s the ROI on DFM?”, which was a lively business panel, and a panel ... http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;219509080;12103198;y?http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/exkpnt?opendocument&metc=mtxzsk National Instruments introduces PXI Semiconductor Suite, a collection of 10 new software-defined modular instruments for mixed signal chip test. View white paper to learn more. http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/1120021512.html?nid=3003 Just got back from the EDA Consortium’s annual EDA CEO Forecast and for the most part the CEOs seemed particularly gloomy when it came to rev... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/610021061.html?nid=3003 Hi folk, I’ve been in hunkered down mode for the last few weeks researching and writing my next cover story. This one’s on IC reliabili... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/1640020564.html?nid=3003 EDN’s sister publication Electronics Weekly has a video clip of ARM’s Sir Robin Saxby receiving the Elektra Lifetime Achievement award&... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/1740020174.html?nid=3003 A few years ago when EDA startup Calypto introduced its SLEC (sequential logic equivalence checker) tool, I thought it was a very promising technol... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/660019866.html?nid=3003 Hi folks, the contentious SystemVerilog tool interoperability standard the OVM (Open Verification Methodology) co-developed by Cadence and Mentor G... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/60019806.html?nid=3003 Hi folks, while I was away on vacation, Xilinx prebriefed the press corps about news that EDA veteran Moshe Gavrielov has been appointed the new CE... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/1390019739.html?nid=3003 I saw somewhere that the word of the year--that is, the word of 2007--was “subprime.” In the EDA industry, I think many EDA watchers wo... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/960019096.html?nid=3003 A couple of my colleagues here at EDN have been busy posting Holiday Gift Guides for Engineers. Check out Brian Dipert’s post Brian's Brain's... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/310019031.html?nid=3003 Last week I interviewed Simon Davidmann about his not so new startup Imperas. You can read my interview by clicking on the story “EDA ESL sta... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/860018886.html?nid=3003 We've just posted our HOT 100 products for 2007. This year the EDA industry produced quite a few interesting tools spanning several different desig... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/1870018587.html?nid=3003 It’s been quite a while since a product release has caused such a big reaction in the EDA industry. I’m sure all the big EDA players of... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/1760018576.html?nid=3003 Hi folks, there’s interesting video interview on the street.com, in which Cadence CEO Mike Fister is being interviewed about the state of the... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/1240018324.html?nid=3003 A few weeks ago I attended a keynote at ICCAD in which, Jeff Welser, director of the SRC Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), outlined indust... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/1310018131.html?nid=3003 ‘Tis the season for not only Eggnog, Santa Clause and Seasons greetings, here at EDN it’s time for nominations for our 2007 EDA Innovat... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/550017855.html?nid=3003 A months ago, I ran into blogger and verification specialist JL Gray and he gave me a copy of his business partner’s new book “Aspect-o... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/720017272.html?nid=3003 Hi folks, we’ve posted my feature article on the low-cost FPGA market “High noon for FPGAs: Low-cost-versus- high-end showdown”, ... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/1330016933.html?nid=3003 I went to the Open Access meeting today at the Sun Microsystems conference center and was pretty amazed how well the Silicon Integrated Initiative ... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/1490016749.html?nid=3003 I’m always amused when I read a report that one EDA vendor has landed a “primary tool provider agreement” with a given customer. ... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/1510016551.html?nid=3003 Don’t know if you’ve heard it yet but Apache announced it has acquired Optimal Corp. for an undisclosed amount. I’ve written abo... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/430016443.html?nid=3003 Hi folks, just months after its founding, the Interoperable PCell Libraries (IPL) coalition is showing great progress, as this week at the Synopsys... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/410015641.html?nid=3003 Hi folks, I just filed a feature on the low cost FPGA offerings from the various FPGA vendors, and I’m pretty happy with the article. The art... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/490015449.html?nid=3003 Magma Design Automation has acquired IC and package co-design tool vendor Rio Design Automation, EDN has learned. A company official at Magma conf... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/260015226.html?nid=3003 If you ever wondered what happened to Gerald Hsu after the infamous code theft trial between his company and Cadence Design Systems, you can find o... http://www.edn.com/blog/1480000148/post/920015092.html?nid=3003 Hi folks, early this morning we posted an article entitled, “SynaptiCAD buys rights to ASC tools, ASC looking for buyer.” The title cap...