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Gary Smith EDA (GSEDA) is the leading provider of market intelligence and advisory services for the global Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Electronic System Level (ESL) design, and related technology markets.

Worked with EDA company defining specifications for a Silicon Virtual Prototype (SVP).

Worked with microprocessor company exploring new microprocessor heterogeneous cluster architectures.

Analyzed the mix of In-House tools and commercial tools, optimizing for best cost/competitive mix.

Set standard design language usage throughout a multi-division, multi-location design organization that had been fragmented by acquisitions.

Provided short lists or EDA vendors for benchmarking tools, lowering each benchmarking cost by $120,000.

Recommended design flows for mixed-signal ICs.

Provided comparable tool options for contract negotiations.

Worked on an internal team to upgrade the companies Designer from Mainstream to Power users (a four year program).

Set purchasing strategies to upgrade EDA vendor support, increasing design team efficiency and decreasing design costs.

Held a four month methodology review recommending design team changes that lowered overall costs.

Analyzed the use of off-shore resources and associated costs.

Restructured purchasing strategies to eliminate the costly purchase of non-optimal or seldom used EDA tools.

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  Gary Smith EDA Activities at DAC
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  Gary Smith EDA Activities at DAC

  Gary Smith EDA Activities at DAC
  

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  Wallcharts

  2012 Wallcharts: ESL, CAE & CAD-CAM
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  2012 Wallcharts: ESL, CAE & CAD-CAM

  All the 2012 Wallcharts in one convenient download
  

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  Industry Note

  Spring and EDP 2012
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  Spring and EDP 2012

  Don't miss this conference for Design Methodologists in Monterey on April 5&6. Review of compelling agenda including: SoCs and FPGAs; Top 5 EDA problems; EDA in the Cloud; Low Power with Performance: servers, software, ASIPs and Jim Hogan keynote, and 3DICs.
  

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  ASP-DAC, the DAC Down Under
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  ASP-DAC, the DAC Down Under

  This was a very interesting ASP-DAC with two main take-a-ways from the conference: Parallel Computing is really, really hard, but we can do it and Homogeneous Computing is Dead.
  

  Cost: FREE

  
  

• Research Viewpoints

  

  ESL Wallchart 2012 – Market in Turmoil 2011 was definitely a turning point for ESL Design. Upper Mainstream users are moving to ESL. What did that do to EDA revenue? Cost: $500.00 x Pay By Check / PO IP - The Expectations and the Reality A powerpoint presentation discussing: the promise of IP reuse and why it didn't happen; recent changes to the ITRS cost chart; different types of IP (design (royalty vs. non royalty chart), verification and models). Cost: $500 x Pay By Check / PO EDA’s RTL & Below and CAD/CAM Wallcharts 2011: The Lull Before the Storm Analysis of the changes in the Wallcharts with a discussion of the RTL Sign-off problem and the Sub-Apps likely to move to ESL soon. Includes chart and discussion of changes in the Wallcharts over the last 13 years in terms of Merged, Died and New companies. Cost: $500 x Pay By Check / PO What To See at DAC 2011 Research Viewpoint 16th annual write up of 'must see' products at the 48th DAC 2011 with a detailed analysis of the products, categories and why you 'must see' them. To post/ reprint the list and/or use GSEDA logo, purchase the RV for $500. Cost: $500 x Pay By Check / PO

  RTL & Below Wallchart – Adjusting to Market Changes Changes to the ESL Wallchart caused a reformatting of these charts to bring out the distinctive area of the RTL & Below flow. Platform-Based design is causing this flow to become focused on IP designers. Includes Merger-Die-New company Entry chart. Cost: $500.00 x Pay By Check / PO Executive Summary of 2010 Market Share Two page overview of full market share report. Contains table of top 5 EDA companies with revenue and growth, graph of regional EDA revenue and growth, and EDA market analysis. Cost: $500 x Pay By Check / PO ESL Wallchart 2011: Stable and Growing ESL growth is up significantly, but not as much as last year. Discussion of the one additional new category (Software Synthesis) and what it is. Analysis and explanation of the Three Virtual Prototypes. Review of movements with established and new companies. Cost: $500 x Pay By Check / PO

  Research Viewpoints Archives | 2008 | 2009 | 2007 | 2010 | 2011

• Market Statistics

  

  2011 Market Trends: Analog, RF and Custom This report will discuss the trends, 2010 market share and 2011 forecast for the Analog, RF and Custom sub-application sections of ESL, RTL, IC CAD and PCB applications of the EDA market. Cost: $2,000 x Pay By Check / PO 2011 Market Trends: PCB The PCB Market Trends report includes market share, market forecast and analysis by sub-applications for the PCB sub-applications. For more information, please review the detailed table of contents and figures. Cost: $1,000 x Pay By Check / PO 2011 Market Forecast Executive Summary It was a good year for the EDA industry in 2010 finally entering another period of healthy growth starting last year. Worldwide EDA product and maintenance revenue totaled more than $4.4 billion in 2010, growing 8.8 percent from its 2009 market size. Report contains analysis and global EDA annual five year growth rate. Cost: $500 x Pay By Check / PO 2011 Market Trends: IC CAD Growth Returns The IC CAD Market Trends report includes market share, market forecast and analysis by sub-applications for the IC CAD sub-applications. For more information, please review the detailed table of contents and figures. Cost: $2,000 x Pay By Check / PO 2010 Market Share The full market share report covers market size and share data for the entire EDA industry, as well as more granularities into market data for each of the CAE (ESL + RTL + Gate), IC (CAD) and PCB applications in all regions. Cost: $5,000 x Pay By Check / PO

  4Q2011 EDA Forecast Update: Market Growth Leaps Ahead It has been many years since we’ve seen growth rates for the EDA market do any better than barely breaking into the very low double digits. But 2011 growth appears to be very strong; demonstrating that EDA still has plenty of vibrancy left. Includes 5 year EDA forecast. Cost: $1,000 x Pay By Check / PO 2011 Market Trends: RTL and Below The RTL and Below Market Trends report includes market share, market forecast and analysis by sub-applications for the RTL and Below sub-applications. For more information, please review the detailed table of contents and figures. Cost: $3,000 x Pay By Check / PO 2011 Market Forecast It was a good year for the EDA industry in 2010 finally entering another period of healthy growth starting last year. Worldwide EDA product and maintenance revenue totaled more than $4.4 billion in 2010, growing 8.8 percent from its 2009 market size. Report containing five-year future projections for industry growth. Cost: $5,000 x Pay By Check / PO 2011 Market Trends: ESL The Upper Mainstream Moves Up to ESL The ESL Market Trends report includes market share, market forecast and analysis by sub-applications for the ESL sub-applications. For more information, please review the detailed table of contents and figures. Cost: $2,000 x Pay By Check / PO

  Market Statistics Archives | 2009 | 2008 | 2010 | 2011

• Industry Notes

  

  Gary Smith EDA Activities at DAC Gary Smith EDA Activities at DAC Cost: FREE ASP-DAC, the DAC Down Under This was a very interesting ASP-DAC with two main take-a-ways from the conference: Parallel Computing is really, really hard, but we can do it and Homogeneous Computing is Dead. 1 comments Cost: FREE Mentor and Flowmaster - Thinking Out of the Box Mentor Graphics has announced that it has acquired the Flowmaster Group, a UK-based provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation software. This isn’t the first time Mentor has reached into the mechanical world. Mentor is clearly thinking out of the box here. 2 comments Cost: FREE Synopsys/ Magma - Great Acquisition, Difficult Merger Analysis of the Synopsys/ Magma tool sets: why Synopsys bought Magma, what tool markets will be affected and how it will affect the design engineer. Complications with merging the R&D teams. Will Synopsys be able to do a better job than they did with Avanti? 3 comments Cost: FREE IC CAD and Transactional Memory The Virtual World is decreasing the sharing of peripheral information. At IC CAD, I learned that IBM is using Transactional Memory in its Super Computer. 0 comments Cost: FREE

  Spring and EDP 2012 Don't miss this conference for Design Methodologists in Monterey on April 5&6. Review of compelling agenda including: SoCs and FPGAs; Top 5 EDA problems; EDA in the Cloud; Low Power with Performance: servers, software, ASIPs and Jim Hogan keynote, and 3DICs. 1 comments Cost: FREE DVCon 2012 Takes on the System Level Verification Challenge I believe the attempt to move our verification methodologies up into the ESL Architectural level will fail. ESL Behavioral Level is where verification should start. That will cause us to completely rethink our verification approach. 1 comments Cost: FREE Welcome to 22 nm Design – It Ain’t Going to Be Easy The transition from 32 nm to 22nm silicon will have a major impact on the design community. You will see more and more design teams deciding to leave the IC Layout portion of the design to the experts. 3 comments Cost: FREE IBM's Transactional Memory Why IBM uses Transactional Memory (reliability and parallel computing) and the importance of memory architectures. 1 comments Cost: FREE The Gigahertz Joke Dynamic Power in an SoC is controlled by two major variables; Gate Count and Frequency. Once the Power Budget is set, as in the case of mobile designs, designers must trade off these two variables. As the demand for more gates is growing designers are looking at lowering the average frequency of their designs. Microprocessor vendors that are still bragging about their Gigahertz processors are missing the point. Cost: FREE

  Industry Notes Archives | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2010 | 2011

• Wallcharts

  2012 Wallcharts: ESL, CAE & CAD-CAM All the 2012 Wallcharts in one convenient download Cost: FREE CAE Wallchart 2012 The CAE Wallchart lists vendors by sub application at the RT and Gate Levels Cost: FREE

  CAD-CAM Wallchart 2012 The CAD-CAM Wallchart lists vendors by IC CAD and PCB sub application Cost: FREE ESL Wallchart 2012 The ESL Wallchart lists vendors by ESL sub application in the categories of System Design Automation, Behavioral ESL, Architectural Design and Verification Cost: FREE

• definitions

  EDA Tool User's Definitions Cost: FREE 2010 Definitions for EDA Market Share Survey Cost: FREE

  Design Technology Improvements and Impact of Designer Productivity Cost: FREE