Renewed interest/investment in code linting! Good for the industry
As some of us have seen over last decade, approximately 5 years ago industry was upbeat about code/RTL linting with almost every EDA vendor offering products in this space. Some of them were start-ups acquired by big vendors (like LEDA.fr to Synopsys). At the end the Linting market proved too small for the 3 biggies and their focus on that technology got sidelined. In all, one company survived this wave well and that’s Atrenta – its SpyGlass product increased leaps and bounds both in its capabilities and installed base. Today SpyGlass is an undisputed leader in Linting and has enjoyed monopoly for more than 5 years, well done Atrenta! Come recession, silently few smaller EDA vendors started investing on this niche segment and now we have ALINT from Aldec and Ascent from RealIntent. I’m personally thrilled to see more players on this technology – though the $$ may not be too high, the potential user base is large and investment is not all that HIGH as in a SystemVerilog simulator for ...