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Three events from TSMC, ARM and JAMA Software highlight the breadth and depth of IP development that (hopefully) results in manual-less consumer apps.

Will the success of the open source movement in software and even hardware cause changes in silicon IP business models?

Each of the major semiconductor EDA companies approaches innovation is different ways, but all agree that creating new products and improving existing ones is essential to survival. By John Blyler Everyone talks about innovation. Start-up companies are the most visible vehicle for innovation, but also the most risky with a one-in-ten chance of modest success. Less visible is the innovation …

Would the EDA industry be better served by the disruption caused by yet another acquisition attempt on Mentor or a sell off?

Max Domeika, co-chair of the Multicore Programming Practices (MPP) Group and Intel developer, discusses the intersection of multicore and embedded markets.

John Blyler interviews Dr. Gary Ray about reproducible research in open source hardware design and impact to EDA-IP chip development.

With new tools and methods, chip designers will be able to implement and detect watermarks soon. ———————– By Dr. Gary Ray Design costs have been driven up by the complexity of modern chips. A Gartner/Dataquest 2003 study showed that transistors/ die are growing at a 68% compound annual growth rate while productivity (transistors/person-month) was growing at 21%. The result is …

Imagine a design world where you could reproduce in hardware any design you could read about. ———————– By Gary Ray Could you read a conference or journal paper describing a new chip design and–from that paper alone–be able to recreate that author’s chip in hardware and verify all of the written performance claims? Does that sound possible or simply ridiculous? …

Will existing EDA vendors have a market for their tools in the next decade or so?