Electronica 2000: Valor Spins Out New Internet Company
By Tets Maniwa, Community Leader EEdesign.com
By Electronica, Munich - November 22, 2000 Valor Computerized Systems announced the formation of e4eNet, which stands for e-collaboration 4 the Electronics industry Network. The new company will focus on providing supply chain management services through web-based browsers. The new company said it will announce products in the first quarter of 2001.

FSA Awards Dinner
By Sean Patrick Dean, Web Editor
By Santa Clara, CA — December 7, 2000 — The fabless semiconductor industry has refuted the criticism it received in the late 1980s and early 1990s to become the preferred business model, said Jodi Shelton, executive director of the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA), at its annual awards dinner.

EDA Platform Benchmark: Setting Up a Unix/NT Environment
By James Lee and Subha Pindiproli
By Entering our third year of electronic design automation (EDA) platform tests, we expand our range of view to evaluate some EDA infrastructure choices. Specifically, we have shown in this series that Windows NT systems can run EDA applications at high speed, but how do you integrate NT systems into traditional Unix-based EDA environments?

Failure Analysis Is a Useful Feedback Tool for System Designers
By Venkataraman Lakshminarayanan
By The analysis of failures can give valuable insight into the causes of failure and provide inputs for product improvement.

Editor's Notebook: Cooley Demands a Recount
By Peggy Aycinena, Editor
By I hate clichs as much as the rest of you — particularly over-used, trendy ones. But, the truth of the matter is that EDA ran into a problem this past week and it's related to polling practices. We need a recount, but there's no way to get one — given the circumstances, the partisan politics, the dollars, and the positioning that are at stake.

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