EDA Tool Chain Too Complex
October 23, 2013
He's founded and sold companies, pioneered some EDA technologies, and survived cancer. So Forte Design Systems founder and CTO John Sanguinetti has seen a thing or two, and today he sees an EDA tool chain that's too complex.
In a recent interview, Sanguinetti -- whose early career included time at Digital Equipment Corp. and Ardent Computer -- summoned some history in order to put the present and future in perspective.
As electronics design has gotten more complex, the EDA industry naturally has had to move up the abstraction ladder to keep design engineers productive.
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