Electro-ramblings

Just to let you know that the fifth instalment of Warren Savage's monthly column on Semiconductor IP is already live on the site - Warren Savage On: The Next Big Thing

He begins:

About 20 years ago, we saw the emergence of the EDA industry, which combined with the rise of the independent fabs seemed to herald in a new era of unprecedented design productivity. Internal CAD groups were systematically dismantled in favour of buying third-party tools, spilling legions of CAD engineers onto the street who formed new EDA companies. And for about 10 years, all was right with the world.

Then about 10 years ago, the EDA industry started to groan under the burden of keeping up with the design productivity demanded by Moore's law. As EDA's answer, we saw the introduction of new technologies in the area of behavioural synthesis and new system level design tools that were aimed at raising the level of design abstraction. The world more or less yawned.