Time to rethink EDA flows and tool infrastructure

Recently, I have had the pleasure of talking to a number of entrepreneurs within the EDA space and got to hear some of their concerns and recommendations for people thinking about starting a new company. The results of those will be appearing here within EDN and in my EDA Designline blogs. One of the themes running through those interviews has been how much harder it is today compared to 10 or 20 years ago. John Sanguinetti, CTO of Forte Design Systems, said it is no longer possible to think about a company formed by two or three people spending two or three years to build a new product. One of the big reasons stated is that the design flows in place today are so complex and that so many pieces and interfaces have to be provided to fit into those flows.

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