Differentiate and deliver: leveraging your partners

For the past 25 years, the EDA industry has played a major role in the growth of the semiconductor industry, providing tools and services that have helped companies develop electronics products that permeate and improve every aspect of our daily lives. As the semiconductor industry moves into the nanometer era, they face many key questions when envisioning a new product. When do they want the product to reach the market? How will that product be differentiated? Where do they develop and manufacture that product? Less than a decade ago, these questions would have been answered completely independent of whatever EDA vendor a semiconductor company selected. However, in the nanometer era, the answers to these questions can be significantly influenced not only by EDA companies but also by the IP and pure-play foundries that make up the infrastructure of the semiconductor industry. In order to compete in a global marketplace, these companies must align their individual core competencies wit...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: DAC
• Authors: Jay Vleeschhouwer, Warren East, Michael J. Fister, Aart J. de Geus, Walden C. Rhines, Jackson Hu, Rick Cassidy
• Keywords: Computer Architecture, DAC 2005, Eda Vendors, Nanometer Era, Semiconductor Industry