OVERVIEW OF EDA INDUSTRY VTUVSIISA Confluence Meeting February 2006

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OVERVIEW OF EDA INDUSTRYVTU-VSI-ISA Confluence
MeetingFebruary 2006

• Dr.H.V.ANANDA

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Agenda

• Characteristics of EDA tools
• Challenges faced by EDA industry.
• Broad categories of EDA tools
• Main activities in EDA development centre
• Skillsets needed
• Main players
• Overview of Synplicity

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Characteristics of EDA tools

• Electronic design automation (EDA)-Set of
  software tools used for VLSI chip design.
• Highly sophisticated and implement complex
  algorithms.
• Typical EDA software product contain
• Boolean logic optimizers
• Language parsers, lexical analyzers
• Logic generators
• Logic simulators
• Pattern recognition
• Parallel computations
• User friendly GUI
• Extremely compact and fast access databases

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Characteristics of EDA tools(Contd)

• Need hundreds of man-hour effort for development.
• Need real engineering skills for development and
  testing.
• One would need to use all he/she has learnt in
  engineering and more
• Needs interdisciplinary knowledge.
• Electronics
• Complex mathematics
• Computer science/engineering

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Challenges and opportunities

• We are witnessing rapid advances in chip
  technology. Every new generation of technology
  brings forth newer phenomenon and challenges.
• EDA industry has to be a step ahead of the chip
  technology and continue to innovate and develop
  design methods and tools capable of addressing
  these new phenomena and design problems.

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EDA tool Categories

• Based on Design methodology
• Full custom design
• Standard cell based design
• FPGA design
• Structured ASIC design

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EDA tool Categories(Contd)

• Based on Design flows
• Implementation tools
• Logic and Physical Synthesis
• Design for test
• Full custom layout
• Floor planning
• Place and Route
• Verification tools
• Simulation
• Timing analysis
• Formal verification
• Power analysis
• Signal integrity
• DRC and LVS

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Main Activities

• Tool Development
• Compilers
• Mappers
• Placers
• Routers
• Timing engines
• Parasitic extractors
• Tool Testing(Software)
• Code coverage
• Memory leakage

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Main Activities (Contd)

• Tool Testing (Application)
• Requirement specs
• Feature Test plans
• Development of test cases
• Regression testing
• Analysis of failures
• Quality of results
• Run time
• Timing
• Area
• Running large designs

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Skill Sets

• General
• Engineering degree in electrical
  /electronics/computer science
• Non engineering degree with short term course in
  C and C is no good.
• Good attitude towards problem solving and
  initiative taking
• Good communication skills and professional
  mannerism
• Tool Development
• Data structures (list, tree, graphs)
• Algorithms (sorting, searching, hashing)
• C, C
• Digital design
• Lex, yacc
• Perl, python
• Application testing
• Digital circuits
• HDL-Verilog/VHDL
• Scripting languages like Perl/shell
• Flows
• Concepts of simulation, Synthesis, PR etc

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Players in the field

• Cadence
• Interra systems
• Mentor Graphics
• Magma
• Synplicity
• Softjin
• Synopsys

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Welcome to Synplicity, Inc.

• EDA software company founded in 1994
• Public since Nov. 2000 (NASDAQ SYNP)
• 310 employees in 12 countries
• Strong partnerships with leading silicon
  providers
• 1 Provider of FPGA Synthesis Tools Since 2000
• Serving customers designing
• FPGAs
• DSP
• Structured / Platform ASICS Cell Based ASICs
• ASIC Prototyping
• Unique Company Philosophy
• Best results through innovative technology
• Ease-of-use through automation
• Productivity through fast runtimes

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A Global Company
Serving Customers Worldwide
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Synplicity India

• Located at ITPL Bangalore
• About 40 engineers
• Tool development, Application support, QA and
  worldwide customer support

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Synplicitys Solutions
FPGA Synthesis Market Share
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67
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32
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58
Source Gartner DataQuest (October 2004)
2005
Pioneer and Leader in Structured/Platform ASIC
Synthesis
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1 In Customer Satisfaction
Customer Satisfaction
Question Of the FPGA EDA tool vendors whose
products you have used and/or purchased, how
would you rate your level of satisfaction with
each?
2004 EDA Study
Source
Small base. Interpret with caution
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University Program

• Established in 1996.
• Students should get to use world class tools at
  affordable prices.
• 410 colleges and universities worldwide
• All products now available!
• All products are unabridged exact commercial
  products.

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University Program Highlights
410 Active/Unique Universities Worldwide
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