( DAC 99 Item 45 ) ----------------------------------------------- [6/25/99]
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....
"The worst freebie was Altera's pool cues -- these did not unscrew
in the middle -- how the hell do you get them on the plane????"
- an anon engineer
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