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I don’t usually report news. I rather comment on them, or take position on various subjects. But for once, I’ll make an exception. I wrote a few posts on EDA and cloud computing –the latest was as recent as last week, where I posted about security in the cloud after a thread of comments on [...] [...] Continue reading Synopsys is getting into the cloud Today’s cloud market is hard to estimate and depends a lot on the analyst. One report predicts that the global cloud computing market is expected to grow from $37.8 billion in 2010 to $121.1 billion in 2015, with SaaS (Software as a Service) contributing for three quarter of this market. Regardless of the actual size, [...] [...] Continue reading EDA in the cloud: shall we be scared? Cloud computing is becoming more pervasive in many aspects of the day-to-day business of companies: archiving, payroll, CRM, etc. Whenever the cost of acquiring, maintaining, and scaling one’s own IT resources becomes too high, cloud computing start to become attractive. ASIC and digital system design is a computing resource-hungry task that would certainly benefit from [...] [...] Continue reading Cloud computing: an opportunity for EDA It’s official: Tier Logic will cease to be in business on Friday July 16, 2010. The company has been trying to close its second round of funding, but it became clear last week that no short-term funding from a new VC would come, despite some due diligence by two lead investors. Since Tier Logic’s existing [...] [...] Continue reading RIP Tier Logic No doubt that for the next two weeks you will find many DAC reports in blogs and corporate marketing websites. So I tried not to write yet another DAC report, with a long list of companies and products. Instead, I have chosen to share my absolutely non-exhaustive, completely biased view of DAC. I will then [...] [...] Continue reading DAC 47th digest: what you missed (even if you were there) Another FPGA startup met the fate of so many others: Abound Logic is reported to have shut down this week, Wednesday June 2nd, 2010. Abound logic, previously known as M2000, was founded by three EDA veterans who had previously started Meta Systems. Meta Systems developed the industry’s first emulation system based on custom FPGAs, which [...] [...] Continue reading RIP Abound Logic The past two weeks were pretty interesting if you follow FPGAs. Yes, Xilinx and Altera kept upping their target to Wall St., but that is not where the excitement came from. It came from the recent announcements of two startups, both created in 2003 and heavily funded. Tabula released its long-awaited device, which goes by [...] [...] Continue reading Can Tabula and Tier Logic be successful? Over the past week we heard good news from Xilinx and Altera, both raising their revenue targets for Q4CY09 (Q3FY10 and Q4FY09 respectively). Both of the FPGA giants are doing fine, and are poised to grow twice as fast as the semiconductor industry. The semiconductors companies are doing well too, with TI upping its Q4CY09 [...] [...] Continue reading Why service companies will eat up EDA ICCAD’09 was a fairly good vintage. It started Monday morning with an excellent keynote from Hamid Pirahesh about cloud computing. The same day in the afternoon, a more EDA-focused discussion was initiated by Jim Hogan and Paul McLellan (slides can be found here), asking the question “What EDA needs to change for 2020 success?” Paul [...] [...] Continue reading What EDA needs to change for 2020 success? |
 
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