Opportunities for Serious Conversation at DAC 2009
The Conversation Central effort at DAC 2009 is the brainchild of Karen Bartleson.
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Interview with Rajeev Madhavan, CEO of Magma Design Automation
Rajeev Madhavan has founded three companies, ultimately taking Magma Design Automation public. We cover his background and lessons learned as a successful serial entrepreneur.
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Craig Shirley on “Negotiating with Key Accounts” Tue-Jun-16 in Sunnyvale
Craig Shirley on “Negotiating with Key Accounts” Tue-Jun-16 in Sunnyvale Craig Shirley, VP of Sales at Apache Design Solutions has attended a couple of Bootstrapper Breakfasts® in 2009 and always gives very practical advice on sales and negotiation issues. No surprise, he has more than two decades of experience in sales and sales management and
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We’ve Been Recognized by EE Times as a Trusted Sources Blog
We have been invited to join the “EE Times Trusted Sources” list of blogs. At the discretion of EE Times editors a blog post may be selected from one recently published and a capsule summary placed in their “Trusted Sources” area. EET has characterized the section as follows. This section features posts from around the
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Interview with John Sanguinetti
Co-founder and chief technical officer of Forte Design Systems, John Sanguinetti talks about his experience of turning an idea into a business. He was the principal architect of VCS, the Verilog Compiled Simulator, and was a major contributor to the Verilog’s resurgence in the design community. He has 15 publications and one patent. He also
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John Sanguinetti on an EDA Startup’s First Product
John Sanguinetti was the founder and CEO of Chronologic Simulation, a startup that developed a compiled code approach to Verilog simulation. I am working on an interview with John and came across a very interesting position statement he gave as a part of a panel at DAC 98 called “The EDA Startup Experience: The First
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Why Conferences Persist: DAC Will Be Here in 2020
Daniel Nenni has a thought provoking first post on his new blog “The Mathematics of EDA.” He suggests that many EDA markets segments are “winner take all” in the manner of a poker pot, and that DAC is in need of reform to continue to be a good deal for larger EDA companies. He offers
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EDA Roundup: 100+ EDA Blogs, Jim Hogan, Wally Rhines
EDA Roundup: 100+ EDA Blogs, Jim Hogan, Wally Rhines 100+ EDA Blogs: I have updated the “Bloggers Covering Design Automation” list so that it now has over 100 listed. I think remain on track for 500 blogs by 2011 as I had predicted in “What Happens when 70 EDA Blogs Become 500 in 2011.”
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EDAC CEO Forecast for 2009
I attended the EDAC 2009 CEO forecast tonight and what follows are some quick impressions. I got there just as the event started and the Lincoln High School String Quartet was playing one of the Brandenburg concertos, and playing it very well. Room J at the San Jose convention center has an 18′ high ceiling
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Yatin Trivedi on the Value of Coopetition
A great write-up by Yatin Trivedi on the value of coopetition: the motivation for a partnership program in any company is to better serve the customers beyond one’s ability.
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Disruptive Tools Can Stall At Group Boundaries
When introducing disruptive tools, the difficulty of adoption is proportional to the cube of the number of organizational silos who need to agree.
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Plan For Customer Reference as Much as Payment
Worry about a good customer reference more than getting paid. A reference will lead to payment, but just because they pay does not mean they’re a reference. Plan for gaining customer references by starting with a request for feedback don the quality of your services and the business results you enabled.
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EDA Bloggers’ BoF at ICCAD 2008 Wed-Nov-12 4-6pm in Fir Room
There will be a birds of feather meeting for EDA bloggers at ICCAD 2008 on Wed-Nov-12-2008 at 4-6pm in the Fir Room.
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EDA Business Climate: A Retrospective
A look back over the last seven years to provide a context for an assessment of the EDA business climate and prospects for the future.
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Non-Customers Are Where Important Changes Often Start
There is a risk of complacency for start-ups (and even larger firms) who have achieved a level of security in their first niche. Markets change, consumer needs change, and you need to continue to explore opportunities to sell your offering to new customers–non-customers–even though it’s a much harder sales process than a renewal, upgrade, or
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EDA Bloggers’ BoF at ICCAD 2008
Ed Lee and I have been pulling together another EDA Bloggers’ Birds of a Feather, this one at the 2008 ICCAD Conference. It will be on Wednesday November 12, 4-6pm in the Fir Ballroom. It’s listed in the ICCAD program as an additional meeting: EDA Bloggers’ Birds-of-a-Feather sponsored by IEEE CEDA and organized by Juan-Antonio
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Herb Reiter Interview on Fostering Static Timing Analysis Adoption
An interview in 2008 with Herb Reiter of EDA 2 ASIC Consulting, Inc. on Static Timing Analysis and how to introduce it into a design flow.
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Opportunities for EDA Startups in Cadence’s Acquisition of Mentor
I researched an opinion piece for SCDSource about three weeks ago that is up on the site today at “How Cadence’s Mentor buy would impact EDA startups.” I start from the following premise: I believe that the merger will be consummated, but that Cadence will not remain as one of the top three players in
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What Happens When 70 EDA Blogs Become 500 in 2011
I just added Cadence to the list of companies with blogs on my May 28 post “Bloggers Covering Design Automation.” I didn’t see any announcement but they appear to have re-designed their website in the last three or four weeks and now highlight a community of bloggers on their home page. My simple projection is
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A Primer on Blogs for EDA Start-ups
After I offered “7 Tips for Encouraging Bloggers to Write About a Conference,” Gabe Moretti, the editor of the DACeZine, asked me to contribute an article on blogging (I guess that could have been my eighth tip). It appeared in the June 26 DACeZine. What follows is a version of the article appropriate for a
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