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Winners and Losers
Posted on Monday, March 7, 2011 - 00:20 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
Engineers tend to view the world in binary. There’s the good guys and the bad guys. There’s the right way and the wrong way. There are rich folks and poor folks. Democrats and Republicans. You’re with us or against us. And there are winners and losers. This week, working the Agnisys booth at DVCon, I got to see all these types and all the shades in between. I got to see the good guys (me, of course, and anyone who was with me) and the bad guys (the competition).
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The Burning Platform
Posted on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 01:26 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
Although I was unable to attend DVCon last week, and I missed the Jim Hogan and Paul McLellan presenting “So you want to start an EDA Company? Here’s how“, I was at least able to sit in on an interesting webinar offered by RTM Consulting entitled Achieving Breakthrough Customer Satisfaction through Project Excellence. As you may recall, I wrote a previous blog post about a Consulting Soft Skills training curriculum developed by RTM in conjunction with Mentor Graphics for their consulting organization.
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So, you want to start an EDA company?
Posted on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 17:56 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
www.flickr.com/photos/cayusa/ CC BY-NC 2.0 In the almost 2 years since I started this blog, I’ve been paying pretty close attention to the EDA industry. And one of the themes I keep hearing goes something like this: “There’s no more innovation in EDA” I hear it on blogs and on Twitter. I hear it from design engineers, from consultants, from old media, from new media, and even from EDA people. One person I know, someone who has been an executive at an EDA company and a venture capitalist, says that EDA is persona non-grata for VC folks.
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My Obligatory TOP 10 for 2009
Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 15:50 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/optical_illusion/ / CC BY 2.0 What’s a blog without some sort of obligatory year end TOP 10 list? So, without further ado, here is my list of the TOP 10 events, happenings, occurrences, observations that I will remember from 2009. This is my list, from my perspective, of what I will remember.
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DAC Theme #1 - “The Rise of the EDA Bloggers”
Posted on Monday, August 3, 2009 - 01:42 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
(Photo courtesy J.L. Gray)  Last year, at the Design Automation Conference, there were only a couple dozen individuals who would have merited the title of EDA blogger. Of those, perhaps a dozen or so wrote regularly and had any appreciable audience. In order to nurture this fledgling group, JL Gray (with the help of John Ford, Sean Murphy, and yours truly) scrounged a free room after-hours in the back corner of the Anaheim Convention Center in which to hold the first ever EDA Bloggers Birds-of-a-Feather session.
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EDA Is Only “Mostly Dead”
Posted on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 03:08 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
Last Wednesday at DVCon, Peggy Aycinena MC’ed what used to be known as the Troublemakers Panel, formerly MC’ed by John Cooley. The topic, “EDA: Dead or Alive?” Well, having attended Aart’s Keynote address immediately preceding and having attended Peggy’s panel discussion, I can answer that question in the immortal words of Miracle Max, “EDA is only MOSTLY dead”.
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Mentor Graphics Displaced Worker Program
Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 17:45 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I’m still up at the Design Verification Conference (DVCon) and have not had a chance to summarize last evening’s Software-As-A-Service and Cloud Computing EDA Roundtable. I will do that over the weekend and have a complete rundown next week, including slides. In the meantime, I wanted to pass on some information that was announced a week or so ago and which I became aware of just this week. Mentor Graphics has initiated a Displaced Worker Program to provide free training to customers who have lost thier jobs in the last 6 months.
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Update on SaaS/Cloud Roundtable & DVCon Day 1
Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 03:09 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I’d like to update you on some new panel members for the SaaS and Cloud Computing EDA Roundtable and also give you some highlights from DVCon Day 1. As previously reported, the roundtable will be held on Wednesday Feb 25th at 6:30pm in the Monterey/Carmel Rooms. We’ve picked up 2 additional panelists, Jean Brouwers and Bill Guthrie. Jean is an EDA industry veteran heavily into cloud computing and SaaS. Bill is Executive Vice President and Co-founder of Numetrics, a company that delivers its products using the SaaS model.
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Setting The Record Straight
Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 02:50 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
Since conducting the Verification Methodology Poll and publishing the raw results last week, I’ve been planning to follow up with a post that digs a little deeper into the numbers. Things have gotten rather busy in the meantime, both at work and with organizing the SaaS and Cloud Computing EDA Roundtable for next week at DVCon. So I’ve let it slip a little. Well, I noticed today that the verification methodology poll was referenced in a Cadence blog post by Adam Sherer.
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SaaS & Cloud Computing EDA Roundtable @ DVCon
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 02:03 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I’ve been writing about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing as relates to EDA for some time now. Then back in January I made a New Years resolution to organize a SaaS EDA roundtable at the 2009 Design and Verification Conference (DVCon).  About a month ago I asked for volunteers and several of you have stepped up to help. Now, just a week before DVCon, I’d like to formally announce the event. The SaaS and Cloud Computing Roundtable will be held from 6:30 - 8:00 pm on Wed Feb 25th in the Monterey/Carmel rooms at the San Jose Doubletree Hotel.
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