( ESNUG 323 Item 7 ) ---------------------------------------------- [7/22/99]
Subject: New Evidence Of Heavy Synopsys Involvement In Military Contracts?
> WE DID NOT PRINT THAT Two weeks before DAC, Kluwer Academic sent out a
> flyer advertising various chip design books. ( http://www.wkap.nl ) The
> book "Understanding Behavioral Synthesis" by John Elliot, a Mentor
> employee, was on the cover of the Kluwer flyer. This got me curious
> because Mentor offered an interesting new behavioral synthesis tool,
> Monet, two years ago -- so I wondered if the book was about Monet or
> Behavioral Compiler from Synopsys. At the Kluwer booth at DAC, I asked
> for the book. The guy in the Kluwer booth said "Mentor bought the entire
> first edition run for its customers." I said, "That's OK. I just want
> to look at a copy of it for a minute." He replied: "Legally, all I can
> say is that Mentor bought the entire first edition run for its customers."
> Oh. So 750 copies in that first printing at $115 each, that's $86,250
> Mentor spent to hide something... Hmmmm....
From: Paul Gerlach <paulge@mdhost.cse.tek.com>
John,
Here's another humorous Kluwer story: I have in front of me that flyer for,
"17 New Books!", "Design Methodologies" that you wrote about. If you look
closely at the pictures of the front cover of 5 books, RMM, etc, one is,
"ADVANCED ASIC SHIP SYNTHESIS Using Design Compiler". (Note the 'SHIP'.)
Is Synopsys now customizing Design Compiler just for the guys on contract
to the Navy? Does Synopsys have a secret Dept. of Defence contracting
division we've never heard about?
- Paul M Gerlach
Tektronix Beaverton, OR
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