Paul McLellan

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EDAgraffiti is now at edagraffiti.com

I’ve moved EDAgraffiti to its own website at www.edagraffiti.com . There may be teething troubles so please let me know of any problems. See you over there… More

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Magma: getting products into the channel

I met Rajeev Madhavan, CEO of Magma, last week. We talked about a number of things but focused on one issue I’ve talked about before. Large EDA companies are capable of developing new technology—they have plenty of smart engineers, after all—but struggle to introduce new products into their channel. The reason is that their salespeople are rational and realize that they... More

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Global foundries' plan for world domination

Last week I attended the Global Technology Conference, which sounds like something that the United Nations might sponsor but is, in fact, organized by Global Foundries. Just in case you don’t remember who Global Foundries are, they are the old manufacturing arm of AMD which was spun out (partially, AMD still kept a share) and purchased by ATIC, a financial group based in Abu Dhabi.... More

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Polyteda

One startup I did run across that looks interesting is Polyteda. Let me first point out that this is all based simply on talking to them and I’ve not run their tools or done any other diligence. They have a next generation DRC facing off against Calibre (also they have LVS). They are based out of the Ukraine. When I had a development group in Moscow when I was at Compass one of the... More

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DAC retrospective

So what was the theme of DAC this year? Two things stood out for me: one is that the big EDA companies are getting serious about doing design at a higher level. I think we need a new name for this since ESL tends to focus on IC design, whereas the underlying message is that moving to the higher level is about designing electronic systems including their software, not largely about chip... More