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By John Donovan Synopsys yesterday (11/30/2011) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to buy Magma Design Automation for $507 million, the largest acquisition in the EDA industry in many years. The acquisition will strengthen Synopsys’ position in both … Continue reading →

By John Donovan I read two articles this morning that together bookend a singularly bad idea: defunding scientific R&D just when other countries – China in particular – are making it a national priority. Chinese Incentives The first was an … Continue reading →

At last week’s CDN Live event, the Cadence team detailed their vision for the future of the EDA industry: not point tools for engineers but standards-based, end-user oriented application–driven design. CEO Lip-Bu Tan pointed out that the $350B electronics industry … Continue reading →

This week the Bluetooth SIG formally adopted Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0, which adds Bluetooth Low-Energy (LE) to what’s now being called Classic Bluetooth or Basic Rate (BR), namely what you have in your Bluetooth headset. Designed to work from … Continue reading →

Early this year my old boss and friend John Reardon, CEO of the RTC Group, and I had it out on Rick Jamison’s Synopsys blog over the future of print vs. online journalism. While not quite accusing John of an … Continue reading →

Moore’s Law keeps marching relentlessly forward, thanks to engineers conjuring up increasingly clever tricks to push back against the laws of physics. According to ARM, in the last seven years mobile phones have shown a 50X improvement in talk-time per … Continue reading →

[Continuing the debate on Rick Jamison's Listening Post blog:] I don’t think any of us are predicting the death of print, just its decline, which means an old business model needs to be retooled. What we’re witnessing is the acendancy … Continue reading →

At DAC two years ago Cadence launched it’s Common Power Format (CPF), while down the hall Mentor, Synopsys, Magma and several semiconductor firms launched the rival Uniform Power Format (UPF). Cadence wanted to keep control of its power specification format, … Continue reading →