This week, Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group announced it will purchase semiconductor IP powerhouse ARM in a cash deal worth approximately $32 billion. What does this massive deal mean for EDA users and vendors? Gary Smith EDA offers our view of this extremely noteworthy acquisition and its impact on the EDA and electronic design industries.
21st annual write up of “must see” products at the 53rd DAC 2016. To post / reprint the list and/or use GSEDA logo, purchase the RV for $500. View the List for Free.
2014 marked the first year of really solid growth for electronic system level (ESL) tools, after years of promise as the next big thing in EDA. It seems the tide is finally turning and ESL technologies may now be experiencing their long-awaited user adoption in earnest. For the first time, ESL growth was higher than that of either the downstream CAE market or the EDA market as a whole.
Gary Smith EDA will continue its mission to support the EDA industry with our detailed market statistics and forecasting reports, consulting and advisory services, and strategy and analysis services under chief analyst Laurie Balch.
20th annual write up of “must see” products at the 52nd DAC 2015. To post / reprint the list and/or use GSEDA logo, purchase the RV for $500. View the List for Free.
We have been trying to put together an ESL design flow for over a decade. It has been very elusive. If you want excuses, the flow is complex. The RTL flow initially had only four tools, a simulator, a synthesizer, an IC Layout tool and a static timing analyzer (V-S-M-Q in LSI Logic’s terms). The other issue was that we (I specifically) were all hardware guys and half of the flow is software. It took me years to learn how to speak software so I could start to communicate with the programmers. Fortunately, I had guys like Jason Andrews (Cadence) that could translate for me when I got stuck.
I had lunch with Sean Murphy this week. For those who don’t know Sean, he is one of the few vision guys in EDA. He always gets me thinking, which is hard during the dog-days of summer. Sean isn’t active in EDA presently; he is using his talents to help a very confused Medical market as there are not many chances to help the EDA industry right now (and get paid for it). So we spent lunch bemoaning the sorry state of the Electronics industry and trying to solve the world’s problems over a great Chinese lunch at the 4-5-6 restaurant.
Sol Gradman asked me to write up something about DAC 2013 so I guess I should. Actually that’s how things have been going this year. I’ve been so busy doing research that the only time I stop to write something is when someone asked me to, which was the case in my last Industry Note. Some of my friends at Intel asked me to write down a conversation we were having so I wrote the “Intel, a Modest Suggestion”.
19th annual write up of “must see” products at the 50th DAC 2013. To post / reprint the list and/or use GSEDA logo, purchase the RV for $500. View the List for Free.
Intel has made their first decision by heavily funding their Fab program. Intel’s new process development and Fab division is the heart of the company. They made their CEO decision. Now, they have to feed the Fab. You probably need to break up Intel into three parts: Manufacturing, Microprocessor, SoC Platform.
New vendors at DAC often ask, “How do you get on the What to See @ DAC list? “How much does it cost to get on the What to See @ DAC list?” We believe “Thou shalt not be a Coin-operated Analyst!” Here is how the annual list is created.
The key to our strong research is getting to know the right people. The difficulty is getting a hold of them; they are very busy engineers. The easiest way is to know what shows they attend. The DATE technical program seemed like it was custom made for my interest and theirs.
This week, Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group announced it will purchase semiconductor IP powerhouse ARM in a cash deal worth approximately $32 billion. What does this massive deal mean for EDA users and vendors? Gary Smith EDA offers our view of this extremely noteworthy acquisition and its impact on the EDA and electronic design industries.
21st annual write up of “must see” products at the 53rd DAC 2016. To post / reprint the list and/or use GSEDA logo, purchase the RV for $500. View the List for Free.
2014 marked the first year of really solid growth for electronic system level (ESL) tools, after years of promise as the next big thing in EDA. It seems the tide is finally turning and ESL technologies may now be experiencing their long-awaited user adoption in earnest. For the first time, ESL growth was higher than that of either the downstream CAE market or the EDA market as a whole.
Gary Smith EDA will continue its mission to support the EDA industry with our detailed market statistics and forecasting reports, consulting and advisory services, and strategy and analysis services under chief analyst Laurie Balch.
20th annual write up of “must see” products at the 52nd DAC 2015. To post / reprint the list and/or use GSEDA logo, purchase the RV for $500. View the List for Free.
19th annual write up of “must see” products at the 50th DAC 2013. To post / reprint the list and/or use GSEDA logo, purchase the RV for $500. View the List for Free.
The shift to commercial Design Data Management software was reaffirmed. With designs exceeding 100+M gates, design files are requiring sophisticated Design Management software that has been specifically targeted toward IC Design. General purpose or PDM tools don’t solve the problem.
Analysis of User Wants & Needs Power Survey in 2011 and how the new ITRS Power Model allows design trade-offs between frequency and gate count.
Why Software isn’t driving today’s Hardware and how Cloud Computing isn’t affecting EDA.
17th annual write up of ‘must see’ products at the 49th DAC 2012. To post / reprint the list and/or use GSEDA logo, purchase the RV for $500. View the List for Free.
Don’t miss this conference for Design Methodologists in Monterey on April 5&6. Review of compelling agenda including: SoCs and FPGAs; Top 5 EDA problems; EDA in the Cloud; Low Power with Performance: servers, software, ASIPs and Jim Hogan keynote, and 3DICs.
This was a very interesting ASP-DAC with two main take-a-ways from the conference: Parallel Computing is really, really hard, but we can do it and Homogeneous Computing is Dead.
I believe the attempt to move our verification methodologies up into the ESL Architectural level will fail. ESL Behavioral Level is where verification should start. That will cause us to completely rethink our verification approach.
Mentor Graphics has announced that it has acquired the Flowmaster Group, a UK-based provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation software. This isn’t the first time Mentor has reached into the mechanical world. Mentor is clearly thinking out of the box here.
The transition from 32 nm to 22nm silicon will have a major impact on the design community. You will see more and more design teams deciding to leave the IC Layout portion of the design to the experts.
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