( ESNUG 552 Item 8 ) -------------------------------------------- [10/26/15]
Subject: Calypto, Gary Smith, Laurie Balch, Broadcom, "Jolly" and ARM rumor
Way back in August 2011, DeepChip broke the news that Mentor was giving
its Catapult C away to help form Calypto. That was 4 years ago.
I've now heared rumors that last Friday (five days ago), Sanjiv Kaul sent
out an internal email to all 70 to 100 Calypto employees saying that
Calypto will be rejoining Mentor Graphics.
- from http://www.deepchip.com/items/0551-10.html
- "I feel really bad for Gary Smith about this."
- "This is sad. Gary Smith invested a lot of personal capital
into the dream of HLS, SVP, and the ESL design flow."
- "I wish Gary was around to comment. This was his big vision."
- "Having to see the last freestanding C-based EDA start-up fail
like this would have saddened Gary if he was around to see it."
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From: [ Laurie Balch of GSEDA ]
Great job breaking the news of Mentor's spin-in of Calypto!
While it can be tempting to view this announcement as an indictment of the
Electronic System-Level (ESL) design flow, that's simply not correct.
Gary Smith is and was absolutely right in his staunch support of ESL design
methodologies. It's true there's been a slow takeoff for this niche -- much
slower than we had predicted -- but it is definitely happening. ESL market
growth overall has hovered around 5% the past couple of years. And from
your own DeepChip:
"I've heard Calypto was growing 12% per year. Maybe Greg Hinckley
wanted that growth under MENT's ledger?"
- from http://www.deepchip.com/items/0552-01.html
Calypto has a solid position in both the ESL synthesis and power analysis
segments and continues to grow. The company certainly isn't floundering.
It's also important to remember that the era of the "massive IPO exit" for
startups is behind us for EDA (and many other tech niches, too). But
acquisitions are still very much alive -- and what will keep the industry
moving forward.
Mentor placed its bets with Calypto four years ago as a majority shareholder
in the company, so a spin-in is a logical doubling-down maneuver. Calypto
has had good success rolling out its products to the industry on its own;
integrating with the rest of the Mentor portfolio will help ESL gain even
greater market success.
This acquisition reaffirms Mentor's commitment to the future of ESL design
methodologies.
- Laurie Balch
Gary Smith EDA Santa Clara, CA
Editor's Note: Because of Gary Smith's passing this summer, please now
welcome Laurie Balch as the new Lead Analyst at GSEDA. Laurie worked
with Gary on his Market Trends reports for 17 years. - John
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From: [ A Wall Street Reader ]
Hi, John,
I saw this comment burried in your post:
"Just when the Calypto-Broadcom deal is about to happen. It was
in the works for several months. It was to be one of the largest
PowerPro deals Calypto has ever had - and Mentor decides to pull
the trigger on them."
- from http://www.deepchip.com/items/0552-01.html
Do you have any details on this? Please keep me anon.
- [ A Wall Street Reader ]
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RUMOR: I'm hearing gossip that ARM had an RTL power tool benchmark last year
and that as a result, ARM is now standardizing on Calypto PowerPro tools...
If true, it'll be an upset. Last I knew ARM has been standardized on the
Ansys Apache PowerArtist tools for years -- and it means John "Jolly" Lee,
the new VP & GM of Apache will have some catching up to do. (Losing ARM for
RTL power analysis/optimization isn't something to be taken lightly.) - John
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