Cadence Design trying to buy Mentor Graphics

June 17, 2008

I was a bit astonished to see that Cadence is looking to buy Mentor. As a system level guy, that makes me wonder what will happen to Orcad and Pads. Orcad has pretty much lost its way, with the code-base shipped off to India and Cadence constantly trying to move people up to Allegro. And what about the high-end circuit board tools like Allegro? Will Mentor provide Hyperlinx and everyone will have to switch to Allegro? Stay tuned, it is an interesting situation. Several friends and I gave up on Orcad and Cadence years ago and switched to Altium. This Cadence Mentor buyout will only add to customers concerns and confusion.
[Update:] Here is the link from the first comment.

Posted by Paul Rako on June 17, 2008 | Comments (2)

June 18, 2008

In response to: Cadence Design trying to buy Mentor Graphics
Ruediger commented:

sorry for my typo: must be AdvanceMS instead of Discovery-AMS. Buying Synopsys might be the next step then

June 18, 2008

In response to: Cadence Design trying to buy Mentor Graphics
Ruediger commented:

I do not see, how their AMS flows might fit together. Cadence AMS Designer has a Verilog-AMS backbone and a weak SystemVerilog & Verilog-AMS implementation, while Mentors Discovery AMS generates a VHDL-AMS netlist. It would be so much better if Cadence invests it's money in producing a praxis proof, efficient AMS flow, instead of flooring competitors !

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