EVE is determined to make sure we all know who the leader in emulation is these days. A while ago, they produced evidence that they were the fastest (I agreed with some open questions), then releases came out about new adoptions. It appeared as if they may be in the lead – but Cadence took up the challenge and said that they had more customer endorsements over the past year – so that one may be close (Mentor failed to respond, so it is not know how they actually did). Today EVE says that they lead on market share and provided the data.

The data they provided came from the Gary Smith EDA RTL Market Trends 2009 Report. The report covers calendar year 2008 and forecasts EVE’s market share at 28%, a full three percentage points ahead of its closest competitor. Gary Smith calls the EVE solution a “design team acceleration and emulation box” as opposed to a “verification team…” because it is a desktop device rather than one requiring special environmental conditions.

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