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I agree. It's disappointing to see a news like this. Mentor Graphics did a really great job on their verification tutorials that had done a great benefit to my
by e19293001 10y ago
I agree. It's disappointing to see a news like this. Mentor Graphics did a really great job on their verification tutorials that had done a great benefit to my career. I'm not sure Synopsys is winning the competition though. I just hope some great startup would emerge that's willing to support FOSS or rather some group of people willing to put their effort in creating the next generation and yet competitive and free EDA tools that I'll be interested to join.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoInterested in your opinion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12951128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12951128
- rgovind 10y agoWhy would this happen given that semiconductor industry itself is shrinking? I used to work in EDA until recently, but since money in semiconductor is dwindling, people like me have no interest in pursuing ideas in EDA
- nickpsecurity 10y agoThe other problem that I noticed is buyers are extremely risk-adverse about synthesis tools. They dont want to pay that mask fee to get broken chips in return. No more than necessary anyway. They were picky even about offerings from Big 3 when I last looked where behavioral was almost always Design Compiler, RTL almost always same product, and most using Mentor for material check. Id see different mixes on occasion but most stuck with what seemed to work for quite a few people. I think an EDA startup doing these things might have to prove itself with industrial-grade, academic projects first just to get some proof it works. Then, it will get a small slice of a shrinking pie that requires solving a pile of NP-hard problems in a patent minefield. I'm surprised at how many get funded to begin with.