Comments on: Upon Further Review and W.W.S.D http://theasicguy.com/2008/09/21/upon-further-review-and-wwsd/ sharing insights into the people side of ASIC design Thu, 17 May 2012 14:25:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Sean Murphy http://theasicguy.com/2008/09/21/upon-further-review-and-wwsd/#comment-231 Sean Murphy Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:32:03 +0000 http://theasicguy.com/2008/09/21/upon-further-review-and-wwsd/#comment-231 "All reform comes from below. No man with four aces howls for a new deal." John F. Parker in "If Elected I promise" Synopsys more than any firm is holding four aces in the current market, their risk that a SaaS offering has a fratricidal effect on their existing product mix is the highest. Only if the Cadence offering starts to take significant business from them will they respond. If I were looking for a SaaS impact in EDA I would look to FPGA tools where the designers are more willing for the design to leave the corporate firewall. “All reform comes from below. No man with four aces howls for a new deal.” John F. Parker in “If Elected I promise”

Synopsys more than any firm is holding four aces in the current market, their risk that a SaaS offering has a fratricidal effect on their existing product mix is the highest. Only if the Cadence offering starts to take significant business from them will they respond.

If I were looking for a SaaS impact in EDA I would look to FPGA tools where the designers are more willing for the design to leave the corporate firewall.

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