Comments on: Birth of an EDA Revolution http://theasicguy.com/2008/09/05/birth-of-an-eda-revolution/ sharing insights into the people side of ASIC design Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:34:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: James Colgan http://theasicguy.com/2008/09/05/birth-of-an-eda-revolution/#comment-207 James Colgan Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:08:03 +0000 http://theasicguy.com/2008/09/05/birth-of-an-eda-revolution/#comment-207 Thanks for the post Harry. As you can imagine, this is a topic we at Xuropa think about a lot. The reason we got started over at Xuropa was because we kept hearing deep dissatisfaction along the supply chain, mostly related to efficiency, transparency and business models. Here is a "vector" I would add to the forces that are at play here... We believe that the status quo will be supported for as long as those with the greatest vested interests are content with their bottom line - this is already changing. We're seeing both large and small EDA companies explore new ways to leverage the Xuropa Platform to increase their efficiencies. Check out a recent post to our blog describing one aspect of the Xuropa platform: <a href="http://www.xuropa.com/blog/2008/08/28/leveraging-your-greatest-investment-your-product/" rel="nofollow">Leveraging Your Greatest Investment - Your Product!</a> Thanks for the post Harry.

As you can imagine, this is a topic we at Xuropa think about a lot.

The reason we got started over at Xuropa was because we kept hearing deep dissatisfaction along the supply chain, mostly related to efficiency, transparency and business models.

Here is a “vector” I would add to the forces that are at play here…

We believe that the status quo will be supported for as long as those with the greatest vested interests are content with their bottom line - this is already changing. We’re seeing both large and small EDA companies explore new ways to leverage the Xuropa Platform to increase their efficiencies.

Check out a recent post to our blog describing one aspect of the Xuropa platform: Leveraging Your Greatest Investment - Your Product!

]]> By: Lou Covey http://theasicguy.com/2008/09/05/birth-of-an-eda-revolution/#comment-206 Lou Covey Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:51:44 +0000 http://theasicguy.com/2008/09/05/birth-of-an-eda-revolution/#comment-206 Yes, a revolution is coming in EDA, but I don't see it coming within the industry as it stands today. Too much of the real value of EDA is tied directly with the market they serve not as a standalone industry. EDA needs to split and merge into those industries and learn how to REALLY market, not just do marcom. Yes, a revolution is coming in EDA, but I don’t see it coming within the industry as it stands today. Too much of the real value of EDA is tied directly with the market they serve not as a standalone industry. EDA needs to split and merge into those industries and learn how to REALLY market, not just do marcom.

]]> By: Arn http://theasicguy.com/2008/09/05/birth-of-an-eda-revolution/#comment-204 Arn Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:16:29 +0000 http://theasicguy.com/2008/09/05/birth-of-an-eda-revolution/#comment-204 Harry, I couldn't agree more that there will be a revolution. I'm guessing that there will be freeware coming out of the situation shortly where we have more and more standards (like Verilog and so forth). The operative system is free (Linux) the databases are free (MySQL) the web servers are free (Apache) the EDA tools are free .... oops maybe we are not there yet. One of the things that of course will hold the development back a little is the fact that you don't want to be spending millions of dollars on a new maskset and be standing there with an excuse "Oh it was our freeware that didn't work correctly". Harry,
I couldn’t agree more that there will be a revolution. I’m guessing that there will be freeware coming out of the situation shortly where we have more and more standards (like Verilog and so forth). The operative system is free (Linux) the databases are free (MySQL) the web servers are free (Apache) the EDA tools are free …. oops maybe we are not there yet.

One of the things that of course will hold the development back a little is the fact that you don’t want to be spending millions of dollars on a new maskset and
be standing there with an excuse “Oh it was our freeware that didn’t work correctly”.

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