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Back in 2010 activist investor Carl Icahn bought 16 million shares of MENT stock at $8-$10 per share in an attempt to take control of Mentor Graphics.
Today we learned that Mentor Graphics is buying 8 million of those shares from Icahn, so at $18.12 per share I calculate that Icahn just earned...
Seriously, how hard is it for Lenovo to ask any American, "So, what do you think of naming a phone the Lemon?"
Lenovo showcases teaser for new all-metal smartphone for MWC launch
We would tell Lenovo, "Uh, don't name it a Lemon, because that has a negative connotation here in America."
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Free and Open Source Software. Here are the talks from January 30, 31 in 2016:
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Simulation: Technology...
Nominating period open through March 3rd, 2016
The Design Automation Conference (DAC), the premier conference devoted to the design and automation of electronic systems, is now accepting nominations for the Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award. The 53rd DAC will be held at the...
Regression Test GeneratorWriting quality Design-Verification code is quality engineering effort and involves several man hours. Once a design error (colloquially known as “bug”) is spotted by the DV code, it is very important to retain that trace/series of inputs leading to that failure. This is...
The Xyce (TM) team is pleased to announce the release of Xyce (TM)
Version 6.4. This release fixes a number of bugs in Xyce (TM) 6.3
and includes improvements to existing features of Xyce (TM) 6.4. Please
see the Release Notes for a complete list of new features and enhancements.
Highlights...
A couple of former Cadence Design employees with experience architecting the Spectre APS and Spectre RF circuit simulators have created a new company called Cigma and a new parallel SPICE circuit simulator named VSIM1. This first product VSIM1 is focused on netlists with up to 10,000 transistors...
Goanna Software has tools for static source code analysis, useful if you want to reduce security vulnerabilities, improve code quality or ensure compliance with industry coding standards.
Press release here.
Added to list of all EDA mergers and acquisitions.
The students at UC Berkeley have some new Open Source software called Chisel used as a hardware construction language.
Just added Chisel to the Open Source tools list here.
Did you know that at UC Berkeley they have BAG - A Designer-Oriented Framework for the development of AMS Circuit Generators?
We just added it to our list of Open Source EDA tools.
I come from a semiconductor background but have always been fascinated by the potential of solar cells. The folks at Silvaco are presenting a free webinar on the topic of Solar Cell Modeling Using TCAD and SPICE. Check out the details here.
Mike Rogoway from the Oregonian just reported the decline in MENT stock after the conference call with analysts on Thursday where Mentor reports a slow-down in their EDA business for this final quarter of 2015.
At our monthly EDA networking lunch today in Lake Oswego, OR I met Wei-hsing Huang and he talked about his new startup company called SPISIM.
They offer tools for Signal Integrity and Power Integrity, with prices under $10K for a node-locked license.
Residents of Eugene are happy to know that the closed Hynix semiconductor plant was recently bought by Avago, and they have immediate plans to hire and start manufacturing chips. Details reported by The Oregonian today. Avago Technologies is a designer, developer and supplier of analog, digital...
When I worked at Mentor Graphics in Oregon marketing a FastSPICE circuit simulator (Mach TA), I first met Herve Guegan in Grenoble, France where he managed the SPICE (Eldo) development team. Now I found out that Herve is at this new EDA start-up called Intento Design. Here's their first press...
Two Taiwanese companies come together as MediaTek buys shares of Richtek, gaining power management IC products and technology. See the list of all EDA and Semiconductor IP mergers and acquisitions Wiki page.
Press release follows:
Taiwan, Hsinchu – September 7, 2015 – MediaTek Inc. (TSE: 2454)...
As an avid cyclist I expect to pedal some 10,000 miles this year to stay fit and I've always been fascinated by the numbers provided by bike computers. I recently upgraded from a CatEye Stealth 50 bike computer to the 2X more expensive Garmin 520 model, mostly because it promised to give me live...
A new CEO is a good thing for Sage DA, as we learned today that Dr. Raul Camposano has just joined this EDA company focused on automating the creation of DRC decks.
Camposano was at Nimbic when it was acquired by Mentor, and at Xoomsys when it quietly went out of business (rumored to have been...
In a very quiet deal we see Intel acquiring DOCEA Power on July 31st, 2015 gaining a couple of EDA tools:
Aceplorer - model, explore and optimize power and thermal behavior of an electronic system
Thermal Profiler - generate a compact thermal model used in Aceplorer
We've blogged quite a bit...
