Automotive Software Development Used to End with SOP
Back in about 2001, when I was last working for Cadence, Cadence started bringing in a lot of executives from Intel. We had merged custom IC and digital IC engineering and I was running the merged marketing groups. We had a lot of customer commitments for mixed-signal design environments, and figured the only way to deliver on them was to break the silos and make a single team, at least for a year or two. The two groups historically barely talked to each other. The biggest issue was that the two environments had different databases, and we had a third database, openAccess, that existed but was not really used in either system. We needed to get that foundation sorted out before anything good would happen, otherwise we were building a house on sand.
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