Xrosstalk talks AMI

There's a great issue of Xrosstalk magazine out there that talks about algorthmic modeling for high speed SerDes channels.  Cadence as well as other EDA companies give their take on the subject. 

Here's a link to the articles:

http://www.xrosstalkmag.com/images/magazine/xrosstalk_magazine_june08_final.pdf

What are your thoughts?