Monday, September 17, 2018

Why I left Conformal LEC

Fortunately, I left Conformal LEC. For several years (> 3 years) I cannot see the big picture or 3-5 year future roadmap of a product, just consistently heard about "web interface", "javascript", "JSON", "material design", "web browser", "SVG", "interactive chart", "python app", ... etc., I made up my mind to not stay in this product for years.

The tool is still very powerful and successful software. I didn't say above are not important, but I didn't believe they can be used to shape and differentiate the tool and lead the competition. They still get very well revenue because there are tons of design, IP, and companies that have many regressions to run with.

set log file lec.log –replace
read design –systemverilog –gold –f myrtl.filelist
read design –systemverilog –rev –f mynetlist.filelist
add renaming rule r1 foo bar –gold
set sys mode lec
report unmapped points
add compare points –all
compare
report compare data