Why is Electronic Design Automation Interesting?
Why is Electronic Design Automation Interesting?
- Why should I be interested in EDA?
- If you want challenging research problems
- Interdisciplinary: Silicon fabrication, circuits, MEMS, hardware/software
- High-Level Specification, Validation, and Synthesis
- If you want to make lots of money
- Anacad: $75M (
just a simulator)
- Meta Software: $165M (
SPICE + models)
- HLD Systems: $140M (
floorplanning)
- Cooper & Chyan: $420M (
a router)
- OK, But Why Now?
- The industry is poised for yet another revolution! A big one...