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	            <title><![CDATA[The most needed EDA innovation: Missing the point]]></title>
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	            	            In your blog you talk about wanting hardware design to be more like software design in terms of open source, common frameworks etc. You can never expect EDA companies to behave like software development companies because of the orders of magnitude difference in the number of users and the complexity of the preparation process. Lets start with numbers first. Software tools sell for a few $1000. There are perhaps 10,000 hardware designers out there and perhaps another 20,000 verification engineers. So is we sold every engineer a tool for $1000, we would have a $3M business. Now for that you just aren't going to get a lot of innovation - and it shows in the software industry - even though there are millions of them. They are still using the same antiquated design, development and verification strategies that have failed them for decades. Now think about the advances for the hardware engineers that have enabled them to achieve enormous productivity gains using technologies and geometries that were thought to be impossible just a few years ago. And the software guys still can't get their heads around concurrency!

If you think that starting from C or SystemC and creating complex concurrent hardware from it does not imply innovation and being able to produce hardware with few bugs because of the quality of the verification environments does not imply enormous creativity, then you really do have very dark glasses on.	            ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:47:19 -0500</pubDate>
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