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Subject: Questions for Jim Hogan of Vista Ventures
Cooley's DAC 2013 Troublemaker's Panel
Date/Time: Monday, June 3, 3:00-4:00 pm
Location: Ballroom G, Austin Convention Center
IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND THIS DAC PANEL, SIGN-UP HERE
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QUESTIONS FOR JIM HOGAN
How many real customer chip design starts and tape-outs with
working silicon have been done using Sonics' top of the line
SGN product that was announced two years ago?
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To Jim and Lip-bu -
Atoptech wants to sell to Cadence for $300 million. Cadence
says NFW. In your opinion, what's a fair price for ATOP?
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Will IP cores be supported by large supplier base, or dominated
by only a few companies in the future?
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There's more customer demand for new tools in Silicon Engineering.
Do you think the growth in this tool area is real? Why?
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Gary and Jim -- who's going to be the next #4 company in EDA?
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What do you think about the CDNS vs. BDA lawsuit? In your opinion,
what's the real reason Lip-bu is suing Ravi? Who do you want to win?
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Ask Hogan about Cadence suing BDA.
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Gary and Jim -
What do you think about the CDNS vs. BDA lawsuit? Is Lip-Bu
justified in your opinion?
What do you think about SNPS possibly suing Atoptech over
POCV licensing? Is Aart justified in your opinion?
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You're on Solido's board.
How do their variation tools compare to MunEDA and ProPlus?
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To Jim and Gary -
How has Magma being knocked out impacted EDA today?
Did SPICE and PNR tool prices go up as you two predicted?
How many different start-ups have you seen ex-LAVA employees
pop up in?
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Are you in favor of the proposed Immigration Bill?
Are you planning to replace all of your American citizens with
H1-B workers?
I bet they'd try to dodge these questions.
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With the processor companies using Moore's Law to add more cores
to a die, and the inability of EDA vendors to use them, will only
those companies that can afford large server farm and license
pools be able to develop ASICs?
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Costello and Hogan -
Cadence says it's attacking the Synopsys Primetime franchise
with its Tempus. Why now? Why didn't Cadence attack Primetime
20 years ago when it was first starting up?
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To Gary and Jim:
Who's the worst customer a new EDA start-up can get?
Who's the best customer a new EDA start-up can get?
Be specific and explain why?
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What's this "Hogan tax" you tell EDA start-ups about?
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I saw you writing about emulation on DeepChip. You're an analog
SPICE full custom guy. What gives?
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For Jim Hogan -
When are you guys going to learn some new songs?
I'm getting tired of Proud Mary...
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