jim bell wrote:

Bloomberg: Encryption Backdoors Won't Stop Crime But Will Hurt U.S. Tech. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-12-10/encryption-backdoors-won-...

Dianne Feinstein is going to have him snuffed. "VLSI eventually spun off the CAD and Library operation into Compass Design Automation but it never reached IPO before it was purchased by Avanti Corp … Avanti Corporation (the 'i’ in “Avanti” is upside down, so it is also often seen as Avant!) was an electronic design automation company, purchased by Synopsys in … | | | First established as Optimal Solutions, Synopsys was chartered to develop and market the synthesis technology developed by the team at General Electric. Synopsys proceeded to pioneer the commercial application of logic synthesis … Synopsys, Inc., an American company, is one of the largest in the Electronic Design Automation industry.[3] Synopsys’ first and best-known product is Design Compiler, a logic-synthesis tool. Synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an application-specific integrated circuit. Products include logic synthesis, behavioral synthesis, place and route, static timing analysis, formal verification, HDL (SystemC, SystemVerilog/Verilog, VHDL) simulators as well as transistor-level circuit simulation. The simulators include development and debugging environments which assist in the design of the logic for chips and computer systems." https://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/54758257254