Talk:Electronic design automation

Who owns CADSTAR?--Light current 21:52, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

It's a product of Zuken Solutions, who I just made a web page for. The Cadstar page should link to Zuken Solutions. LouScheffer 21:58, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

OK, I added the refernce to the Cadstar page. LouScheffer 22:02, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Strange. I thought it was a RACAL product!--Light current 22:18, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Consider adding Aldec to the list of companies? They are a prominent tool when it comes to FPGA design.

Sure, go ahead and add them. FPGA design is certainly EDA. LouScheffer 00:37, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

This usage probably originates...

Either it originates, or it doesn't. We shouldn't make vague statements like this. Either remove the "probably" or the whole sentence. 84.190.12.162 20:12, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:21, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, I added a fair-use rationale. LouScheffer (talk) 03:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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Software neutral screen-shots

It should be possible to adopt a more neutral set of screen-shots for this article. The ones in use here are basically the same as those on the Kicad article, and it would seem fair to offer representation to other software, both open-source and commercial.

Alternatively, would it be possible to convey the concepts involved, or show the screen-shots without citing specific software. We wouldn't necessarily need to show the entire screen to convey the desired concepts, thereby cutting down this page's potential use as advertising space.

For full disclosure, I'm a gEDA developer (one of many open-source EDA suites), and am concerned that this root article should remain neutral (or give fair representation to all packages). It would be more appropriate to link to the software specific articles for gEDA, Kicad and others which would of course be free to promote that software via fully captioned screen-shots.

Pcjc2 (talk) 15:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Addition of EeSof division of Agilent to Market Capital table

How was the Market cap figure for EeSof division of Agilent calculated? Is this number publicly available, and if so where? Otherwise I it is better to drop it from the Market Cap table and reference it only with a comment. 149.117.23.28 (talk) 10:45, 26 November 2008 (UTC)