tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402802525195793148.post5954291188873611833..comments2023-10-25T05:34:39.767-07:00Comments on My Life: Analog Rails - Thoughts from a Cad ManagerSteven Klasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00681756689019735665noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402802525195793148.post-36370441400026011472014-12-18T23:32:57.302-08:002014-12-18T23:32:57.302-08:00Cliff Wiener stiffed me out of my last ten days pa...Cliff Wiener stiffed me out of my last ten days pay.<br /><br />Perhaps I should have been more wary when his very first email to me, before I hired on, was "Don't worry about the lawsuits". This because he'd ripped off Zeni 4 from its developers in China, reverse-engineered its license server, yet somehow got the Chinese to agree to a contract which gave him the legal right to do that.<br /><br />My own job was at first to write the physical design tool, but after working on that for a few days, he instead asked me to reverse engineer the Zeni 4 design files, which are very complex binary documents.<br /><br />He had the idea that one could reverse engineer the Zeni 4 docs "with ten lines of Perl". I worked twenty hours of per day for a solid month, and succeeded in documenting all but the flight lines of the Zeni 4 physical design - by writing thousands of lines of C++.<br /><br />Every single day, he'd give me grief for not having just written those ten lines of Perl. Clearly Cliff does not know how file format reverse engineering is actually accomplished. I myself have quite a lot of experience with just that.<br /><br />Had he not been such an overbearing, micromanaging "manager", the product would have shipped by 2006.<br /><br />He also would not have needed to finance his company by writing software for travel agents. He would not even have needed investment.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10178364898637556308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402802525195793148.post-26382221460558594932014-10-06T00:46:22.311-07:002014-10-06T00:46:22.311-07:00Very useful for CAD Community.Chip level training ...Very useful for CAD Community.<a href="http://chiplevel-training.com/" rel="nofollow">Chip level training in hyderabad</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03321451040245822578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402802525195793148.post-62310126698610632812013-04-03T22:55:00.286-07:002013-04-03T22:55:00.286-07:00what are the most used CAD programs used in the ar...what are the most used CAD programs used in the architectural/civil fields?<br /><br /><b><a href="http://intercad.com.au/" rel="nofollow">Solidworks Course</a></b>intercadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17884138710695429772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402802525195793148.post-71795083185147684942011-06-03T07:36:23.988-07:002011-06-03T07:36:23.988-07:00Analog Rails is built around automation. We have a...Analog Rails is built around automation. We have a very powerful manual editor built into it, but we do not allow users to break the automation and synchronization. What would the point of that be unless you wanted another system that takes months to build analog blocks instead of days - like our system provides.<br /><br />I challenge your remarks on vaporware. The results of our tool worked on silicon. I also challenge your remarks on not being able to migrate to newer technologies faster. The user can put the layers and distances into the tech file without having to write thousands of lines of code to control the pcells.<br /><br />Oh yea...we are also working with the OA database natively.<br /><br />Chuck Wiener, Business Development, Analog Rails.Chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11454982716412110980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402802525195793148.post-28633589950173403902011-03-10T16:45:04.035-08:002011-03-10T16:45:04.035-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Whitchurchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05522130578279390815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402802525195793148.post-71903258937712467092010-10-25T02:46:21.736-07:002010-10-25T02:46:21.736-07:00Thank you for posting such a useful, impressive an...Thank you for posting such a useful, impressive and a wicked article./Wow.. looking good! <br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://constructionstools.com.au" rel="nofollow">Construction Tool</a>Steffihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06307240636561483902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402802525195793148.post-25581645664240519922008-11-23T06:52:00.000-08:002008-11-23T06:52:00.000-08:00Sometimes the situation is only a problem because ...Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.--Edward de BonoCliff Wienerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17798846818622247349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402802525195793148.post-60404551249546774222008-11-23T06:01:00.000-08:002008-11-23T06:01:00.000-08:00AlexeyHow do you know what we are doing? You have ...Alexey<BR/><BR/>How do you know what we are doing? You have never evaluated our tool. You interviewed with us for 1 HOUR over a year ago (near the beginning of our editor implementation) and you have no idea how we are doing the design rules. Of course we handle the design rules.<BR/><BR/>You do not even understand the basic usage of our tools. Analog Rails is an automated and semi-automated tool, NOT a polygon pushing tool. That is how we do correct-by construction. The user is not allowed to make 11 degree angles for example, so we don't have to worry about that rule. It is not possible to get caught into a situation of an Nth order rule. The editor forces correct by construction layouts.<BR/><BR/>Does Ciranova have routers? We have both grid and offgrid.<BR/>Does Ciranova have a schematic capture tool?<BR/>Does Ciranova have a simulation environment?<BR/>Does Ciranova use simulation information for sizing of the wires?<BR/>Does Ciranova have digital place and route?<BR/>Does Ciranova have a push button complete automated layout?<BR/>Does Ciranova have build in pcells and differential pcells that don't require scripting?<BR/>Does Ciranova have a complete layout editor?<BR/>Does Ciranova have parasitic extraction?<BR/>Does Ciranova have optimization?<BR/><BR/>Your information is coming out of your ass. You are throwing out FUD and have no clue as to what we have and what we are doing.<BR/><BR/>We understand the complexity of the design rules and we thus simplified the problem with our correct by construction tool. This is exactly why we did what we did. Just because YOU were unable to grasp the design rules and simplify doesn't mean it cannot be done. KISS: Keep it simple, stupid.<BR/><BR/>Cliff Wiener<BR/>"Manager"<BR/>Analog Rails / Get2spec, Inc.Cliff Wienerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17798846818622247349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402802525195793148.post-38332180776874434582008-10-10T10:58:00.000-07:002008-10-10T10:58:00.000-07:00Unfortunately, manager of Analog Rails underestima...Unfortunately, manager of Analog Rails underestimates the complexity of the design rule problem. Analog Rails implemented only few simplest design rules in the product - just a small fraction of what Calibre can check for. They hope to satisfy any advanced design rools by setting additional margin for simple rules and their point was that nobody really use advanced design rules, implemented in Calibre. I worked in design rule area for the Ciranova and I am sure that the design rule approach of Analog Rails will not work well - design rules really are very complicated issue.<BR/><BR/>Analog Rail product produce design for which simple design rules are satisfied. Unfortunately, below 90 nanometers this might not be enough.<BR/><BR/>If you are planning to evaluate Analog Rail product, compare it with Ciranova Helix first, which do not take simplified uproach to design rule problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402802525195793148.post-88141450251312461152008-07-21T15:41:00.000-07:002008-07-21T15:41:00.000-07:00I've been watching Analog Rails for over a year, s...I've been watching Analog Rails for over a year, so it was interesting to read your review. I'm curious if the promised productivity improvement is enough to justify buying a copy and placing it in your analog flow.Marketing EDAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01229186771303220797noreply@blogger.com