You know, Frank, the interesting feature about your responses are that they can sound OK, when in fact they're just obfuscation on some front or other.
The cell Library, Old Chap, is exactly what I've been refering to, the 200 .25 micron cell "building blocks" that the C.E.O. of Synopsys refers to as the essential components of the re-usable design 'storage shed' for client designated design requirements. Putting it in the financial area, and as he explained it, the COMBINATION of the right design team AND the right building blocks, and an R&D program that maintains technological lead times, that translates to PROFIT. Take ZSP as you acknowledged have been using the expertise of the Design Team and - presumably, the 'building blocks' placed and designed to provide the functions, the performance, and the reliability (pre-baking) that I am lead to believe most other design teams can not do as well as the IMES TEAM. The factor that you seem to constantly down-play - even to suggesting that any old erector set and a five year old could produce a competetive library with a requisite $500k - simply doesn't make any sense.
More specifically - since we are dealing from the authority of a proven capable CEO here, the complete contempt that you pour on the Library sounds totally phoney. It's that posture, plus your overwhelming superciliousness that tends to get the tone of this effort scuttled.
Now I'm told that you have a genuine expertise, Frank, so rather than hassle with you on this thread, with all of the attendant perceived requirements for presenting bold fronts etc. etc., if I am getting this wrong, and you genuinely wish to educate - do me a favor, and ring me up. Hell - reverse the charges, I know what your last name is, and what you do, and where you've been - so I'm sure that I could profit from the exercise. Who knows, as shocking as it might seem, you might learn something too.
Tom Childs, 330-478-8942 |
