What transparency costs
Something happened this week that brought up the issue of transparency, journalistic independence and why both are needed for a vibrant media that properly serves the industry. As many of you know, I was asked to start a blog on EDA Cafe back in June and started a series of podcasts focusing on the bottom line of design automation. in other words, finding out the industry could justify its existence financially to its customers. We started out with a couple of interviews with the CEOs of Magma and Tanner EDA and then of the Real Intent CEO. The first two readily admitted that figuring out the real ROI of EDA tools is something that has not been done well and needs to be done better. The third interview had the same revelation, but you might notice that the interview is no longer available on EDA Cafe. Real Intent lodged a complaint to EDA Cafe regarding the statement in the interview from the CEO that they could not accurately estimate the ...