The economic recession plaguing the world has been a frequent topic of discussion in this blog space. Closer to home, the US recession that began in December 2007 has naturally received special attention. The last blog entry on the latter appeared here on April 3, 2009, cleverly entitled, “Economic News…circa April 3, 2009”. Even on April 3rd, we were searching for any news that might indicate that the country’s economy “just maybe could be bottoming out.” However, the US jobs report for March 2009, released by the Labor Department that very day, did not indicate a bottoming out at all, as the nation's unemployment rate in March jumped to 8.5%, the highest since late 1983, as a wide range of employers eliminated a net total reported at first as 663,000 jobs. (Worse, this figure was revised upward a month later to 699.000 jobs lost in March). Finally, the “sign” of bottoming out could arguably have appeared in the numbers indicated by the Labor Department’s May 08, 2009 report. While another 539,000 jobs...

As the years roll by, I have come to loathe Memorial Day. All three men in my immediate family served honorably in the US Armed Services. My father in WWI, my brother in WWII, and my other brother in post-WWII Europe. My father and oldest brother survived the wars, but their lives were both cut short by the long-term effects of wartime injuries they suffered. My father was gone before I was 10 years old. The good memories are fading now. For my spouse and me, virtually every family member older than we, are gone. So too for many teachers, college professors, former bosses, and even some co-workers. Lots of memories to go around. But worst of all, one of our sons is gone. Gone at age 23. It’s been 17 years, but the hurt is still raw. We remember. We grieve. We give thanks for our two other children who are thriving. We also acknowledge the grief of millions of our fellow citizens with similar or worse stories, but somehow we remain strangely discomforted by that acknowledgment. Alas, grief and remembrance...

On January 22 and January 30, 2009, related blog entries appeared in this space that discussed the impact of the general US economic collapse on a small EDA IP supplier (Virage Logic) located in Silicon Valley. If those two January blog entries were of any interest to you, you may have also read the then-latest overall financial report & commentary on seven key Electronics IP Providers (including Virage Logic), posted in EDAcafe.com on February 20, 2009, by copying & pasting the following URL contained in the February 20 blog entry here: http://www10.edacafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=656383 Nearly three months have passed since that February Commentary was published. A brand new one with the latest reports on the seven key Electronics IP Providers may now be seen at the following URL as of today May 10, 2009: http://www10.edacafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?articleid=691493 Enjoy!

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The “Simulation Driven Product Development ™” approach favored by ANSYS these days has been more closely linked to the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, through the certification of some five ANSYS products for Inventor ® 2010 software from Autodesk, Inc.

While partnerships between and among MCAE and MCAD vendors are not new, these two companies have emerged in recent years as leaders in their respective niches.


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