Sunday, March 18, 2007

EDA is dead (EE-Times) ?

Here is an interesting article from EE Times :)
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EDA is dead. Yes, it's still needed: We're not going to go back to designing chips with rubilith again. But the reality is that fewer and fewer chips are being designed, and most of the differentiation of a system is moving into the software. Even Gary Smith, the longtime Gartner analyst for EDA, proclaimed at the 2006 DAC that "It's the software, stupid." And then Gartner laid off Gary's EDA group, another symptom.


read the full article in ee times by Paul McLellan at

http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=5JLWEO0HWVLOOQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=198001571

1 comment:

Sean Murphy said...

The URL for the McClellan opinion piece is truncated in your post (but still available in the source to the post) it's here

It's an thought provoking commentary.