From the Editor
The EDA industry, when it finds time, is consumed with figuring out how to make money. It hasn't been easy, and no easy path is in sight. In a recent video blog, Cadence's John Bruggeman pointed to something that he saw in the iPad business model that seemed interesting. That nucleated some ponderings into the future of taking tolls, and that's this week's feature rumination.
We also have Part 2 of the Cisco/Synopsys article on managing the complexity of constraints. (You can find Part 1 last week...)
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Feature Articles
EDA Taking Its Toll
Cadence’s Dan Holden pointed me to his blog entry that pointed to a YouTube video that Cadence’s CMO John Bruggeman made regarding the iPad’s new role as gatekeeper to content. He discusses this in terms of what he calls “tolltakers” and relates it to the need for the EDA industry to find new ways to get paid for the value they provide. This got me thinking about what it means to be a tolltaker. These thoughts don’t reflect specific support or repudiation of John’s comments, but rather spring from those comments and go on their own from there.
It’s no secret that the EDA industry has struggled to find ways to be paid fair value for the capabilities it feels it brings to semiconductor companies. Here’s how I could summarize an abstracted annual EDA negotiation: Read More
Attacking Constraint Complexity
Part 2 – E Soft and SystemVerilog Default Constraints
Yet Another Parallel Approach
PrimeTime Gets Multi-threading
Attacking Constraint Complexity
Part 1 Verification IP Reuse
IP Outlook
Cautiously Optimistic
Threading the Needle
Imagination Technology’s META Processor Gets Clever with Threads
On the Radio
Agilent’s Approach to RFIC
Keeping Us in Stitches. Or Out.
Or, Everything I Needed To Know About Double-Patterning I Learned In Kindergarten
DvCon: Experiencing Checkers for a Cache Controller Design
http://systemverilog.us/DvCon2010/
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