EDA pioneer takes startup to new routing ground

EDA pioneer takes startup to new routing ground is a nice glimpse of this history of John Cooper, an old-time EDA guru, and looks to the future at a new type of router that his startup is developing.

I like the article more for this history than any insight I have into their new router's prospects. Also very impressive is the amount of money that Cadence paid to acquire CCT. It would be really interesting to do an analysis of what EDA vendors have paid for acquisition, and what returns they got. How about Cadence's acquisitions of Ambit and HLD Systems? HLD in particular didn't see to last long.