Gary Smith EDA (GSEDA) is the leading provider of market intelligence and advisory services for the global Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Electronic System Level (ESL) design, and related technology markets.
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Research Viewpoints are an in-depth analysis of news and market trends that will have a significant impact on the strategy and product directions for market participants in the future. Read these research viewpoints to understand what the implications are for your company, product and partner strategies.
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AMS Technology & Design Report:
GSEDA addresses recent AMS turning points in three market segments as follows:
• Semiconductor AMS market and technology direction
• EDA AMS competition expansion and investment opportunities
• GSEDA's 2008 EDA AMS User survey results
See table of contents for more details...
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Cost: $2,000
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AMS Technology & Design Executive Summary:
A high-level summary of the full report that includes Analog/Application specific analog revenue figures. Purchase of this summary will be credited towards purchase of full report.
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Cost: $500
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FUD, Reality and Vision Presentation:
Gary Smith’s annual Sunday night review of the state of the industry including major FUD themes, a reality check of where we are today and a vision of where the design world is going. In addition, the presentation includes discussion of threads, top 10 issues for 2008 and GSEDA’s 2nd quarter EDA market forecast.
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Cost: $500
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What To See @ DAC Research Viewpoint:
The 13th annual ‘must see’ list of products includes power optimization, analog layout and ESL/ SW tools. This document articulates the process of choosing which tools are selected and recommendations for companies to improve their chances to make it though the current electronic inflection point…
Includes What To See @ DAC Monday morning pavillion presentation.
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Cost: $500
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GSEDA@DAC 2007 presentations and Research Viewpoints:
Went to GSEDA@DAC's event Sunday night but want to know more? Missed DAC and want to find out what were the hot topics? Purchase all four presentations ($1000) or for an in-depth review, purchase each individual presentation and research viewpoint for $500.
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Cost: $2,000
GSEDA@DAC:
Multicore Processor Considerations in Modern Day SoC Designs
presentation and Research Viewpoint
by Tom Starnes
Modern SoC designs no longer use just a single general-purpose RISC processor, but may utilize a number of processor elements. Multiple processors on-chip further complicate the chip design, forcing design tools to expand their reach even further. Software development tools must not only integrate programs developed for the variety of processors used but debug them with the hardware all buried on-chip. Ultimately, the performance of the end-system is directly linked to the processors chosen, the effectiveness of structures in the chip to support them, and the integration of the software that runs on all those processors. Examples of current chips demonstrate the complexity of processors in use.-
Cost: $500
GSEDA@DAC:
Alive and Well But Software Challenged
presentation and Research Viewpoint
by Gary Smith
The design world is changing. With those changes the EDA Vendors customers are looking for the EDA Industry to help them with the number one problem in design today: the embedded software design problem.
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Cost: $500
GSEDA@DAC:
Multicore Processor Considerations in Modern Day SoC Designs
presentation and Research Viewpoint
by Tom Starnes
GSEDA@DAC:
What EDA and Chip Designers
Don't Think About
presentation and Research Viewpoint
by Mary Ann Olsson
GSEDA@DAC:
The Crises in Concurrent Programming or Preparing for Multicore
presentation and Research Viewpoint
by Daya Nadamuni
GSEDA@DAC:
Alive and Well But Software Challenged
presentation and Research Viewpoint
by Gary Smith
purchase ALL four presentations
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Cost: $1000
The Texas Surprise:
The consolidation of the semiconductor industry has been a hot topic for at least five years. Although this consolidation has usually referred to the elimination of the IDM model, it actually is the consolidation of those semiconductor companies that fabricate silicon products. Today that means IDMs and foundry vendors....
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Cost: $500
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Is This the Year of Analog DAC presentation:
Mary Olsson’s review of Analog/ Mixed-Signal (AMS) trends, AMS design flow and vendors and the upcoming Users’ report.
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Cost: $500
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ESL Wallchart 2008:
It's the Software Stupid
The ESL Methodology is maturing into its final state. This year we restructured the ESL Wallchart to reflect market changes by updating System Design Automation section, adding coverage for Embedded, especially multicore, software development and deleting the Platform-based design section.
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Cost: $500
CAE & CAD/CAM Wallchart 2008:
EDA passes the 500 mark
We are seeing is a still vibrant EDA Industry with a maturing RTL market but with an exciting and challenging ESL and IC CAD sector. Includes chart and analysis of EDA vendor growth of new companies, acquisitions and companies that left EDA since 1997.
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Cost: $500
Pain and Parallel Programming:
Who, What, Why and How to Approach Parallel Programming
This paper discusses the history and the drivers that are moving us to parallel programming followed by a discussion of the three possible approaches to parallel programming (Threading, API and Concurrent languages)...
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Cost: $1,000
ESL – The Software Story
by Daya Nadamuni
In the software domain the free lunch is disappearing. The free lunch refers to the bloat that software programs were undergoing as hardware became faster and faster. Performance gains in software came more from technology advances in hardware than in software. However now that the multicore era is here to stay, a balancing act needs to happen between the software and hardware domains to achieve optimal system design...
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Cost: $1,000
GSEDA@DAC:
What EDA and Chip Designers
Don't Think About
presentation and Research Viewpoint
by Mary Ann Olsson
What the EDA and chip designers don't think about or envision are the critical parameters at the end of the design flow, where package and board assembly takes place. EDA and chip designers can assign a specific package at the model stage, but there are too many variables that they do not adjust for that maximize the die to package and system performance.
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Cost: $500
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GSEDA@DAC:
The Crises in Concurrent Programming or Preparing for Multicore
presentation and Research Viewpoint
by Daya Nadamuni
Programming multicore devices requires good insight into parallel programming methodologies and techniques. While parallel programming is understood in theory, it is not very prevalent in the mainstream application development arena as most parallel programmes are confined to highly data intensive applications such as weather forecasting and very large scale control systems. However, with leading semiconductor and system vendors trying to grow their multicore platforms businesses, it is becoming clear that good programming models are very necessary to help their platforms to succeed in the marketplace. This poses a tremendous challenge to both the design community and the design tools vendors as they stand on the brink of the move to a new market paradigm.
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Cost: $500
What To See @ DAC 2007:
There have been a lot of questions about just what this list is and…isn’t… The reason for this list is to give engineers a way of identifying the important new tools being shown at DAC… “How can you leave this tool off of the list, everybody is using it?”…The list is Software, Software, Software, DFM and Power [and more]…
Purchase of the Research Viewpoint includes the presentation that will be delivered on June 4th in the DAC Pavilion. You will receive the presentation Monday afternoon…
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Cost: $500
ESL Wallchart 2007:
ESL: Year Three And Counting: The idea of ESL has been around since the early 1990s...the imminent arrival of the "magic green button"...The methodology to put these [3rd generation] tools in place didn't really exist and the tools were mostly point solutions. The current generation of ESL tools though shows more promise...
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Cost: $500
EDA Wallcharts 2007:
The EDA Wallcharts go back to the mid 1980s. Originally called “Who’s Who in EDA,” they grew from a simple one page spreadsheet…. To get a broader look at the trends below is a graph of new vendors appearing in the Wallchart, Mergers and Acquisition and vendors leaving EDA over the past ten years…
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Cost: $500
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Market Statistics are the basis
of all sound business planning.
Gary Smith EDA provides three
basic annual EDA market statistics documents:
• Market Share report consisting of historical data
• Market Forecast report containing five-year future projections
for industry growth
• Market Trends reports with in-depth data and analysis
exploring growth drivers for the many sub-applications
that comprise the EDA market.
Market Trends is divided
into five separate documents: ESL Trends, CAE Trends, IC
CAD Trends, PCB Trends and the Sub-Application Forecast,
to better tailor data for the variety of needs of Gary Smith
EDA clients.
- MARKET TRENDS
- MARKET FORCAST
- MARKET SHARE
Seat Count 2008
This report is the basis of Total Available Market (TAM) figures for the EDA market. It gives start-ups a reliable source for their TAM projections and venture capitalists a reality check to compare start-ups’ claims.
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Cost: $2,000
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2007 Market Trends: ESL
The ESL Market Trends report includes market share, market forecast and analysis by sub-applications for the ESL sub-applications. For more information, please review the detailed table of contents and figures.
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Cost: $2,000
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2007 Market Trends: RTL and Below
The RTL and Below Market Trends report includes market share, market forecast and analysis by sub-applications for the RTL and Below sub-applications. For more information, please review the detailed table of contents and figures.
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Cost: $3,000
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2007 Market Trends: PCB
The PCB Market Trends report includes market share, market forecast and analysis by sub-applications for the PCB sub-applications. For more information, please review the detailed table of contents and figures.
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Cost: $1,000
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Analog, RF and Custom
Sections of Market Trends 2007
This report includes the Analog, RF and Custom sections of the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) 2007 Market Trends. We will discuss the trends of each of the important sub-applications giving market share and the five-year market forecast.
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Cost: $2,000
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2007 Market Trends:
ESL, RTL and Below, IC CAD
and PCB.
The Complete Market Trends report includes market share, market forecast and analysis by sub-applications for ESL, RTL and Below, IC CAD and PCB applications. For more information, please review the abstract, detailed table of contents and figures.
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Cost: $10,000
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2007 Market Trends: IC CAD
The IC CAD Market Trends report includes market share, market forecast and analysis by sub-applications for the IC CAD sub-applications. For more information, please review the detailed table of contents and figures.
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Cost: $2,000
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2008 Market Forecast
Report containing five-year future projections for industry growth.
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Cost: $5,000
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2007 EDA Market Forecast
At long last, after several years of meager to flat growth, the EDA industry has returned to a healthy level of revenue growth. Includes a five year market forecast for WW EDA, CAE, IC and PCB reported by North America, Japan, Europe, Asia Pacific and ROW.
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Cost: $5,000
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2007 EDA Market Forecast
by Sub-Application
Rather than a few large market areas, EDA is a collection of eighty seven sub-applications; all markets of their own, which really drive the overall market. If you want to understand EDA you need to follow these sub-application markets closely. Includes a five year market forecast for all sub-applications in the ESL, RTL and below, IC CAD and PCB application markets.
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Cost: $2,000
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Gary Smith EDA 4Q07 EDA Market Forecast
(Growth Persists Through Another Year) The EDA industry endured an extended growth slump through the first half of this decade, despite the substantially better performance of the semiconductor industry... Mercifully, as new tools have finally begun to emerge in earnest, EDA achieved its own recovery in 2006…with growth forecast to reach.
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Cost: $1,000
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2007 Market Share
Another year of healthy revenue growth met the EDA industry in 2007…The full market share report covers market size and share data for the entire EDA industry, as well as more granularities into market data for each of the CAE, IC and PCB applications in all regions
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Cost: $5,000
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Industry Notes are short summaries of events that will affect the electronics design world.
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Cadence & Mentor –
the Numbers
GSEDA reviews the competitive positioning with current detailed sub-application analysis. Next GSEDA looks at what would happen with the combined company in terms of expected market share taking into consideration leakage due to competing products. Finally, GSEDA suggests three possible outcomes and the likely results
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Cost: FREE
Is 2008 the year for Analog Mixed-Signal?
GS EDA has been interviewing companies to uncover whether "Is 2008 going to be the year where analog design automation moves forward and catches up with digital design automation?" While there has been a shift away from in-house proprietary solutions to design tool integration, will DAC be the turning point?
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Cost: FREE
DATE 2008
Congratulations DATE, you've pulled it off...becoming a major
conference for Embedded Software development, especially that pertaining to
Multi-Core/Multi-Processor systems... What was even more impressive
was...its intention of becoming a true "systems" design automation (SDA)
conference, using this year's automotive emphasis to bring mechanical design
to the table...
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Cost: FREE
ASP-DAC 2008
Trip report includes discussion of Jan Rabaey (UC Berkeley) keynote address, System-Level Design versus ESL versus System Design Automation, Network on Chips, model-based ESL versus language-based ESL, F.C. Tseng (TSMC) keynote address, Semiconductor Research Consortia, and Restrictive Design Rules....
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Cost: FREE
DAC #44 - the Pivotal DAC
Hopefully this is the turning point ...mood was up...disappointment was the lack of software engineers...we may have a terminology problem...What we are trying to solve is parallel processing problems; the multi-core, or really multi-processing in general programming problem...
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Cost: FREE
EDP 2007:
EDP (Electronic Design Processes Workshop) is the conference for design methodology and there have been instances of large semiconductor companies changing their research and, in some cases, methodology based on what was said at an EDP conference. EDP 2007, as usual, showcased the most pressing problems in electronic design today: Power, DFM, and Multi-core programmability...
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Cost: FREE
Investment in the CAD EDA industry
The news that NXP might be pulling out of the Crolles2 alliance with ST Microelectronics and other partners brings up some interesting questions...
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Cost: FREE
ICCAD
The 2006 International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) featured a panel session “CAD Research: Pay Now or Pay Later”. The panel presenters were tasked with addressing various issues about the CAD EDA industry. Some of the most important issues...
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Cost: FREE
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EDP 2008: Multicore, Parallel Programming and Industry Outlook
This year’s EDP conference in April focused on the continuing evolution of multi-core systems and their associated design problems. Semiconductor vendors reflected upon the difficulty of programming multicore platforms, the lack of software that could exploit the concurrency of the multicore design and the limiting nature of memory latency that holds down system speed...
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Cost: FREE
Threads Are Dead
This DAC, Professor Wen-mei Hwu of UIUC said “Threads are dead.” There are 2 issues affecting EDA in the move to Multi-Core, Multi-Processing: first, design; this year the cost of software development, for an SoC, is passing the cost of the actual IC design. This is actually a major opportunity for EDA vendors...
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Cost: FREE
A New Breed of Engineer
While there have been some complaints on the quality of education for the new EE graduates, our experience has been positive...Recently some professors have been talking about a new engineering curriculum for embedded designers… We are seeing the need for an engineering curriculum for an entirely new breed of engineer...
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Cost: FREE
The Stickiness Factor
and Programming Models
This DAC, Professor Wen-mei Hwu of UIUC said “Threads are dead.” There are 2 issues affecting EDA in the move to Multi-Core, Multi-Processing: first, design; this year the cost of software development, for an SoC, is passing the cost of the actual IC design. This is actually a major opportunity for EDA vendors...
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Cost: FREE
DATE 2007
DATE (Design, Automation and Test in Europe) was extremely successful this year. They have finally succeeded in turning D.A.T.E. into a true Electronic System Design Conference. This year I discovered five “Hot” issues: Software, Software, Software, DFM and Power...
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Cost: FREE
Wafer
MEPTEC’s (MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council’s) Technical Symposium IC Packaging and Test Roadmaps, held November 16, 2006, explored future technology trends and solutions for packaging and test. As demand increases for...
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Cost: FREE
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Wallcharts are visual representations of the EDA vendors' tools per category as defined by Gary Smith EDA. There are three versions: EDA ESL, CAE, and CAD/CAM.
ESL Wallchart 2008
This Wallchart lists the ESL vendors by sub application
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Cost: FREE
CAD-CAM Wallchart 2008
This Wallchart lists the EDA vendors by sub application
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Cost: FREE
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What To See @ DAC 2008
This list details the Hot New Products at DAC. The list is free to download.
In order to receive permission to post the list on your website, you must purchase the Research Viewpoint
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Cost: FREE
CAE Wallchart 2008
This Wallchart lists the EDA vendors by sub application
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Cost: FREE
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