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To: Scumbria who wrote (67312)	10/24/1998 8:45:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, Not long ago, many EDA vendors and analysts viewed Windows NT as the next platform of choice for EDA software. But the chip designers who control the vast majority of the EDA industry's revenues had other ideas, and it's recently become apparent that the Windows NT juggernaut has slowed. That's the best article I've seen about platforms for EDA design, thanks. He didn't say NT wasn't still a juggernaut, though did he? It's just a slowing juggernaut. From the article: The most visible chip-design companies that are moving from Unix to Windows NT are Compaq and Intel... Well, does anyone else really count? (I mean Intel). Compaq? is that DEC alpha design? Well, this is real progress for NT (Synopsis and Cadence are THE EDA companies, right?): EDA vendors, meanwhile, are moving more and more applications to Windows NT, although most IC physical-design applications are still Unix-based. With key applications such as Synopsys' Design Compiler and Cadence's Verilog-XL now available on NT, enough critical mass is there for customers to start making the move. And, this is good, and should be robust on top of robust: Murray is interested in low-cost hardware, but what he'd really like to see is Solaris running on a Merced platform. IMO, NT is getting better all the time and, don't forget, UNIX hasn't been trusted for mission critical applications for all time either. Tony