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EDAdesignLine has published Sanjiv's opinion piece on whether EDA is innovative enough. While I agree with much of what he says there, I think that the ecosystem by which EDA products are created is largely broken. Time and time again the big companies have proved incapable of developing and bringing to market genuinely innovative products. Instead small startups have done this, and then become part of the mainstream through acquisition. That is not happening much any more since EDA is not a growing attractive market for investment. Not everyone can afford to do what the founders of Oasys did and fund the company with sweat equity.

And although each process node brings new problems and bigger chips, each node also brings fewer chips. Although EDA is "strategic" to semiconductor companies in some sense, that's not how they seem to regard it. It is a cost to be managed in the same was as IT was until the internet came along and suddenly IT was strategic and every company had a CIO. Which semiconductor company has a C-level design methodology officer?

Posted By paulm at 3:51 pm CDT

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