Unexpected upside driving the semiconductor and EDA industries into 2022
Brian Bailey, Semiconductor Engineering
January 27, 2022
The success and health of the semiconductor industry is driven by the insatiable appetite for increasingly complex devices that impact every aspect of our lives. The number of design starts for the chips used in those devices drives the EDA industry.
But at no point in history have there been as many market segments driving innovation as there are today. Moreover, there is no indication this is about to change.
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Time to market is becoming increasingly important. “The need for proven IP becomes even more important in 2022 as time-to-market pressures escalate,” says Bipul Talukdar, director of applications engineering in North America for SmartDV. “Third-party vendors who are able to provide highly configurable or customizable design IP for better area and performance and a quick customization capability will be in high demand as chip designers look for ways to alleviate the pressure. The RISC-V architecture creates an ecosystem for companies offering turnkey solutions for open-source core productization services, partnerships between productized open-source core providers, FPGA houses, and design IP houses.”