Industry Expert Blogs

You’d need to search pretty hard to find two people more qualified than Jim Hogan and Paul McLellan to advise you on starting an EDA company. Hogan learned the ropes at Cadence under EDA entrepreneurial legend and demi-god Joe Costello and he then went on to sell Artisan to ARM. Hogan’s done some smaller EDA and non-EDA deals as well. McLellan’s list of EDA startups includes Compass Design Automation, Ambit, VaST, Virtutech, and Envis as well as a stint at Cadence. The pair of entrepreneurs obviously loves the EDA business much more than the technology of EDA, which is just fine because that was the subject of their hour-long presentation at DVcon last night. It was an off-Broadway rehearsal for a similar presentation at DAC later this year.