Is Cadence Growing at the Expense of Magma?

I have written extensively about the structural dysfuctions of the EDA industry in Future of EDA, Future of EDA: Addendum. The only two growth areas in the EDA market are Design for Manufacturability / Yield (DFM / DFY) and the pre-synthesis part of the flow that includes system-level design, hardware-software codesign, and prototyping. It turns

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Future of EDA: Addendum

Recently, Gartner fired their EDA research team, part and parcel, with veteran analysts Gary Smith and Daya Nadamuni. Here’s John Cooley’s report on the departure with comments from many industry stalwarts. This takes out the last remaining independent analyst that covered EDA as an industry. There is a problem in EDA. Small $4 Billion market

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RTL Hand-off & Predictive Prototyping

RTL Prototypng and Hand-off is a big problem. Who will eventually solve it?

Future of EDA

Future of EDA