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If you've actually got the EDA expertise for something like that, I can introduce you to people who can get you the funding. Check my profile and email me if yo

• ajross 9y ago
  Heh, no, it was a joke. Rather, the idea is serious, but my own background wouldn't drive any interest in funding absent a team and a product. I threw it out there half hoping to hear a "me too!" from someone already working on something like it.
  • krupan 9y ago
    Check these guys out: http://www.symbioticeda.com/ http://www.symbioticeda.com/
    • ajross 9y ago
      Cool, thanks. Though they seem focused on the digital side: synthesis and formal verification of HDL code. IMHO that world is served fairly well by existing tooling, as it's fundamentally a software problem that looks like other software problems. Where what I want to see (or do, at least in my dreams) is closer to the analog end: design of parametrized cells, GPU-parallel large circuit analog simulation, circuit-dependent optimization (i.e. choose "speed" if the cell is on a critical path, "area" or "power" if not, optimally choose drive strength and buffers based on latency needs of the path, swap flip flop implementations likewise, etc...) place and route, eventually mask file generation, reverse synthesis and design rule checking (though obviously that part becomes fab-specific). None of this stuff is "hard" in a fundamental way, but it's been hidden behind bad tooling for so long that no one seems to have tried to innovate much in the past few decades. Anyway, I got ideas aplenty.
  • deepnotderp 9y ago
    Well if you do find someone who is working on that please let me know, the future wave of semi startups will thank you :)