### 7 Quick Multiple Choice Questions ###
John Cooley
I've had four users independently suggest that I do an anonymous survey
of engineers to see what we, as a group, think about these issues. As
usual, I'm only interested in your answers, not who you are (other than
the fact that you use these EDA tools) -- so your replies will all be
treated as ANONYMOUS. Please reply *on* or *before* this Thursday,
July 25th (three days from now) to "jco...@world.std.com" so I can get
this quickly tabulated and written up.
- John Cooley
P.S. After answering each specific question, please feel free to add
your own anonymous comments on what the question addresses.
0.) Please indicate how Place & Route (P&R) tools affect you. Choose:
[ ] I use them directly in my work.
[ ] I support other engineers using P&R tools.
[ ] I don't use P&R tools, but use related EDA tools for
IC design like synthesis, etc.
[ ] I develope/sell EDA tools.
[ ] I don't use or support or make any EDA tools.
Comments:
1.) "As an engineer, I believe that the American legal system is generally
capable of rendering justice in technically complex lawsuits."
Please answer TRUE or FALSE:___________
Comments:
2.) "As an engineer, if I were the judge in the Cadence/Avant! lawsuit,
I ( WOULD / WOULD NOT ) grant Cadence's Sept. 11 request for an
injuction to prevent the further sales of Avant! products that are
alleged to contain Cadence technology." Please choose WOULD or
WOULD NOT:____________________
Comments:
3.) "My primary sources of info on the Cadence/Avant! lawsuit came from
(please "X", at most, your top 3 three sources):
[ ] EE Times
[ ] Internet discussions
[ ] opinions heard at conferences
[ ] opinions from co-workers
[ ] opinions from boss/management
[ ] direct interactions with Cadence
[ ] direct interactions with Avant!
[ ] other (please specify) _____________________
Comments:
4.) "Because of this lawsuit, I am (MORE LIKELY / LESS LIKELY / UNCHANGED)
to do business with Cadence." Please choose MORE LIKELY or LESS
LIKELY or UNCHANGED:___________________
Comments:
5.) "Because of this lawsuit, I am (MORE LIKELY / LESS LIKELY / UNCHANGED)
to do business with Avant!." Please choose MORE LIKELY or LESS
LIKELY or UNCHANGED:___________________
Comments:
6.) "Because of this lawsuit, I am (MORE LIKELY / LESS LIKELY / UNCHANGED)
to do business with other P&R vendors." Please choose MORE LIKELY or
LESS LIKELY or UNCHANGED:___________________
[ Other P&R vendors: Agape, Cascade, Compass, Cooper & Chyan,
Fujitsu, Gambit, IBM EDA, Mitsubishi, Mentor Graphics,
Sagantec, Sieko, Snake, SVR, Tanner, Timberwolf, VeriBest. ]
Comments (& What Other Vendors In Particular?):
Thanks for taking the time to answer this survey.
- John Cooley
Part Time EDA Consumer Advocate
Full Time ASIC, FPGA & EDA Design Consultant
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Legal Disclaimer: "As always, anything said here is only opinion."
Pete Peterson
In article <DuyrB...@world.std.com> jco...@world.std.com (John Cooley) writes:
>
> ..................... Please reply *on* or *before* this Thursday,
> July 25th (three days from now) to "jco...@world.std.com" so I can get
> this quickly tabulated and written up.
> - John Cooley
>
You seem to have an overly optimistic expectation of news propagation times.
We get our news feed from BBN Planet and your message didn't get to our
site until 27 July at 0144, although it appears to have been posted on 22
July at about 2121.
It may be that BBN is just a particularly unreliable source for a news
feed. I notice that there are significant numbers of articles that I get
through my home Internet provider that NEVER show up here at work. I can't
successfully correlate the missing articles with anything else, though.
pete peterson
r...@genrad.com
+1-508-287-7478 (GenRad); +1-508-256-5829 (Home: Chelmsford, MA)
+1-508-287-7007 (FAX)
John Cooley
jco...@world.std.com (John Cooley) writes:
>
> ..................... Please reply *on* or *before* this Thursday,
> July 25th (three days from now) to "jco...@world.std.com" so I can get
> this quickly tabulated and written up.
> - John Cooley
Pete Peterson <r...@genrad.com> wrote:
>You seem to have an overly optimistic expectation of news propagation times.
>We get our news feed from BBN Planet and your message didn't get to our
>site until 27 July at 0144, although it appears to have been posted on 22
>July at about 2121.
>
>It may be that BBN is just a particularly unreliable source for a news
>feed. I notice that there are significant numbers of articles that I get
>through my home Internet provider that NEVER show up here at work. I can't
>successfully correlate the missing articles with anything else, though.
>
> pete peterson
Pete, sorry for the assumption that the survey would get out on the net
quickly; I was acting under a tight deadline. Either way, I got roughly
350 responses to this survey with 90 percent of them within the first
36 hours of putting out on ESNUG and the newsgroups. I find it ironic
that BBN, one of the pioneers in computer networking has a "particularly
unrealiable source for a news feed" -- it's like hearing that AT&T has
really bad internal phone connections! :^)