DAC Vision from Cadence's Lip-Bu Tan

By _EDN Practical Chip Design

June 20, 2013

Each of the keynotes at DAC this year was preceded by a vision talk from one of the top EDA executives. I presented the first of those vision talks last week from Wally Rhines and you can find there here. The keynote that followed Wally’s talk, given by Gregg Lowe of Freescale can be found on the EDA Designline here.

The second vision talk came from Lip-Bu Tan, who somewhat reluctantly became the president and Chief Executive Officer of Cadence in 2009 when Michael Fister and four other senior executives suddenly left the company and a failed attempt to buy Mentor Graphics. He had been on the board of Cadence since 2004 and now he sees Cadence as an investment vehicle to go along with the $2B in capital he manages as the founder of Walden International. Walden concentrates on the fabless semiconductor domain.

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