Synopsys snaps up Mentor IP guru

Synopsys snaps up Mentor IP guru
By Peter Clarke, Semiconductor Business News
July 4, 2002 (5:40 a.m. EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020703S0019

SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France - Pierre Bricaud, formerly vice president of SOC strategic relationships for Mentor Graphics and an important part of the Wilsonville, Ore.-based company's circuit intellectual property (IP) strategy, has been recruited by Synopsys Inc., Mentor's main EDA rival.

Bricaud has moved to take a European role within the R&D organization of Mountain View, Calif.-based Synopsys, working with system-on-chip and IP design teams within European customers to help them acquire suitable tools and IP blocks.

Bricaud reports to Mike Keating with whom he co- authored the Reuse Methodology Manual in 1998. Although Bricaud and Keating are and were engineering managers working in the commercial environment rather than academics this is held to be a useful text book on the design of circuit blocks for re-use -- and a part of attempts by EDA companies to help design engineers to work at higher levels of abstraction.