EDA Roundup: Big Four Have Stabilized

The EDA players believe that the current year will bring growth for their industry. According to Snyopsys’ management, the outlook for semiconductors is at upper-single-digit growth this year. Industry analysts also expect a CAGR of 9%-11% over the next five years. Besides growth, the industry also believes that the “time-to-market” pressure is back on account of the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Right. I think what you are getting at is exactly the trend that I too have spotted in the context of cloud and EDA – the collaboration aspect of an electronic designer’s life. The EDA workflow can be impacted heavily by cloud computing. For an entrepreneur,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Yes, right. Let me switch to the next topic which is in the context of our 1M/1M initiative whereby we are trying to help entrepreneurs looking especially to deliver solutions in the cloud domain. Where do you see opportunities for such entrepreneurs in this shift of

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Well, there are fairly hairy issues around some of the security aspects of the cloud. Through this vault concept of yours, you make designs available to be hosted in a public repository, right? What is stopping people from copying designs? What are the intellectual property issues?

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: That is interesting to know. You are saying that for large file transfers you, don’t use any of the services like youSENDit? AP: Typically not. Obviously, there are a few places within Altium where people individually use such services. Some of my IT team use a

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What is the architecture that you are using to build and roll out something like this? I presume that this cloud computing discussion is relevant to this new marketplace, this electronics marketplace that you are developing, right?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: From your point of view, where is the industry today in terms of adopting a cloud-based model such as your local design vault and a cloud-based release design vault where designs from participating designers all over the world sit? Is that a reality today, is that

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini We have touched upon the electronic design automation (EDA) industry in some of the previous interviews as part of our Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing series. We noticed that there has been extremely limited cloud adoption in the EDA space so far. As we prepare to ring

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