Tools Tools Tools - EDA Tools everywhere!

Whether you are a IC logic design engineer or an IC packaging and Signal Integrity engineer you most certainly have faced the number one issue haunting the industry..."what God dam tool shall I use?" For there are so many tools vendors with tools each one of them claims to be "the tool of choice". Whether you work for Cisco, Juniper, Intel, AMD, TI, IBM you most certainly have had extensive interactions with Mentor Graphics, Candence, Synopsys, SiSoft, Dolphin, Sigrity, etc.

All these vendors offer an excellent lineup of tools - each tool tend to compliment each other. So long as they are compliant with Industry standards as outlined by GEIA, IBIS, NIST, or IEEE. However, this is not always the case. Some EDA vendors are pretty good with interoperability between tools from different vendors - but others well lets say they are like thorns in the IC and PCB design industry.



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Return of the Techies-i ...A Satirical i-Moment

Here is an i-moment, an i-pause in the busy Techie life. The i or , as I in an earlier blitz coined it as the Techies-i is much abused by both individual Techies and corporate entities. Mysterious indeed it is, even though it has been used to death, it continues to be an attention grabber. Have you noticed, recently Google has re-branded its search as iGoogle - you don't believe me, just go to http://www.google.com and check out the icon.

The techies-i isn't limited to the world of Tech, it has infact ventured into a whole new space and being used to brand Political Satire, or PoliTech Satire - only a Techie would think of using the i in such a manner...be it iPhone, iGoogle, iMap, iFaqeer, or why not iRack or how about iRan !

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