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	            <title><![CDATA[Hot News - Synopsys acquire CoWare!: Cadence will ... ??]]></title>
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	            	            Clive, I commented on Brian's articles about this topic but would be interested in anything you might care to follow up with ...

Firstly, Synopsys will be dealing with the puzzle pieces of four virtual platform tools: CoWare, VaST, Virtio and Innovator (seems to be an in-house development).

Since this CoWare acquisition is an 'exit' for its investors, will Cadence just take the money and run or does it still retain ownership of SPW and BoNES?  If the latter, would Cadence take it back or will the former Comdisco tools find a home in a second Big 3 EDA firm?

If Cadence merely takes the money and runs, will it try to match up against Synopsys (and Mentor Graphics, with Vista, Bridgepoint, SystemVision, etc.) with something they are brewing in-house or buy something?  If buy, what about SoC Designer (Axys) bought by ARM and now under Carbon's umbrella?  (Who owns that IP?)
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                <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:24:05 -0600</pubDate>
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