Analysis: Acquisitions reflect broadening view of EDA
Dylan McGrath, EE Times
(06/11/2010 1:24 AM EDT)
SAN FRANCISCO—Synopsys Inc.'s definitive agreement to acquire IP vendor Virage Logic Inc. for $315 million in cash, as well as an agreement by Cadence Designs Systems Inc. last month to buy memory model company Denali Software Inc. —also for $315 million—represent the most recent and perhaps boldest steps yet by large EDA vendors to broaden their focus and emerge from a "myopic view of what EDA is that was killing the industry," according to a prominent EDA analyst.
"The thing that excites me is that one of the biggest things in embedded computing is going to be the development of concurrent memory," said Gary Smith, principal of Gary Smith EDA. "If Cadence and Synopsys want to get involved in parallel computing, they picked up two companies that are capable of doing it."
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