"What were the 1 or 2 or 3 INTERESTING specific tools that you
   saw at DAC this year?  WHY where they interesting to you?   
   (If any were under NDA say it and I'll keep you anon on them.)"

  "(optional) -- What were the WORST tool[s] or the biggest LIE[s]
   you heard at DAC?  You can be anon here, but please be specific."

( ESNUG 475 Subjects ) ------------------------------------ [09/18/08]

 Item  1: Forte Cynthesizer, Mentor CatapultC, Target, Imperas
 Item  2: NuSym, Certess, Mentor Infact, Jasper, Avery, OneSpin
 Item  3: Sequence PowerArtist/Cooltime, Calypto, Azuro, Atrenta
 Item  4: CLK-DA, Incentia, Extreme, PrimeTime, Oasys, Synplicity
 Item  5: Magma Talus/Hydra, Atoptech, Solido, Synopsys ZRoute
 Item  6: Magma Titan/Sabio, Synopsys Orion, SynCira, Ciranova
 Item  7: Magma FineSim, Nascentric, Berkeley, Z-Circuit
 Item  8: Apache Redhawk/Sentinel/Totem-MMX
 Item  9: IC Manage, Cliosoft
 Item 10: The Biggest Lies Told by the EDA Vendors at DAC

( ESNUG 475 White Papers ) -------------------------------- [09/18/08]

    WP 1: An intro to Magma Titan Analog/Mixed-Signal Solution
    WP 2: Toshiba using Mentor CatapultC for Algorithmic Synthesis
    WP 3: NuSym's Intelligent Verification for Coverage Improvement
    WP 4: RTL for Power with Sequence PowerArtist and PowerTheater

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