Blu licenses an industrial-grade engineering softwaresystem called CATIA used by Boeing to design airliners, Virgin Galactic to build its suborbital space ship and automakers to create cars.
The independent inquiry board set up to investigate the first explosive failure said the flight control system failed because of errors in computer softwaredesign.
To safely operate in the mobile industry, a company needs to have substantial portfolios in the three main patent areas involved in the design of smartphones: operating system and software, hardware and wireless patents.
Also like some others in our industry, our business benefits from the growth of the market for system-level design, which is outpacing the market for chip designsoftware.