Gary Smith EDA 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.
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  • FUD, Reality and Vision

    Gary Smith’s annual Sunday night review of the state of the industry including major FUD themes, a reality check of where we are today and a vision of where the design world is going. In addition, the presentation includes discussion of threads, top 10 issues for 2008 and GSEDA’s 2nd quarter EDA market forecast.


  • Cost: $500


  • Mary Olsson’s review of Analog/ Mixed-Signal (AMS) trends, AMS design flow and vendors and the upcoming Users’ report


  • Cost: $500


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  • Is 2008 the Year for Analog/Mixed-Signal?

    GSEDA has been interviewing companies to uncover whether "Is 2008 going to be the year where analog design automation moves forward and catches up with digital design automation?" While there has been a shift away from in-house proprietary solutions to design tool integration, will DAC be the turning point?
  • Cost: FREE


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  • Wallcharts
    ESL, CAE, CAD/CAM

    These Wallcharts lists the EDA vendors by sub-application
  • Cost: FREE


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  • Cadence & Mentor –
    the Numbers

    GSEDA reviews the competitive positioning with current detailed sub-application analysis.  Next GSEDA looks at what would happen with the combined company in terms of expected market share taking into consideration leakage due to competing products.  Finally, GSEDA suggests three possible outcomes and the likely results
  • Cost: FREE


Industry Note

Cadence & Mentor – the Numbers

DAC Presentations

FUD, Reality & Vision
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Year of Analog?

Wallcharts

FREE: ESL, CAE, CAD/CAM

Industry Note

Is 2008 the Year for Analog/Mixed-Signal?
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  • FUD, Reality and Vision Presentation:

    Gary Smith’s annual Sunday night review of the state of the industry including major FUD themes, a reality check of where we are today and a vision of where the design world is going.  In addition, the presentation includes discussion of threads, top 10 issues for 2008 and GSEDA’s 2nd quarter EDA market forecast.
  • Cost: $500


  • What To See @ DAC Research Viewpoint:

    The 13th annual ‘must see’ list of products includes power optimization, analog layout and ESL/ SW tools.  This document articulates the process of choosing which tools are selected and recommendations for companies to improve their chances to make it though the current electronic inflection point…
    Includes What To See @ DAC Monday morning pavillion presentation.
  • Cost: $500


  • CAE & CAD/CAM Wallchart 2008:
    EDA passes the 500 mark

    We are seeing is a still vibrant EDA Industry with a maturing RTL market but with an exciting and challenging ESL and IC CAD sector.  Includes chart and analysis of EDA vendor growth of new companies, acquisitions and companies that left EDA since 1997.
  • Cost: $500


  • Pain and Parallel Programming:
    Who, What, Why and How to Approach Parallel Programming

    This paper discusses the history and the drivers that are moving us to parallel programming followed by a discussion of the three possible approaches to parallel programming (Threading, API and Concurrent languages)...
  • Cost: $1,000


  • Is This the Year of Analog DAC presentation:

    Mary Olsson’s review of Analog/ Mixed-Signal (AMS) trends, AMS design flow and vendors and the upcoming Users’ report.
  • Cost: $500


  • ESL Wallchart 2008:
    It's the Software Stupid

    The ESL Methodology is maturing into its final state.  This year we restructured the ESL Wallchart to reflect market changes by updating System Design Automation section, adding coverage for Embedded, especially multicore, software development and deleting the Platform-based design section.
  • Cost: $500


  • ESL – The Software Story

    by Daya Nadamuni
    In the software domain the free lunch is disappearing. The free lunch refers to the bloat that software programs were undergoing as hardware became faster and faster. Performance gains in software came more from technology advances in hardware than in software. However now that the multicore era is here to stay, a balancing act needs to happen between the software and hardware domains to achieve optimal system design...
  • Cost: $1,000


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  • Seat Count 2008

    This report is the basis of Total Available Market (TAM) figures for the EDA market.  It gives start-ups a reliable source for their TAM projections and venture capitalists a reality check to compare start-ups’ claims.
  • Cost: $2000


  • Analog, RF and Custom
    Sections of Market Trends 2007

    This report includes the Analog, RF and Custom sections of the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) 2007 Market Trends. We will discuss the trends of each of the important sub-applications giving market share and the five-year market forecast.
  • Cost: $2,000


  • 2007 Market Trends:

    ESL, RTL and Below, IC CAD
    and PCB

    The complete Market Trends report includes market share, market forecast and analysis by sub-applications for ESL, RTL and Below, IC CAD and PCB applications. For more information, please review the abstract, detailed table of contents and figures.
  • Cost: $10,000


  • 2007 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


  • 2007 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


  • Gary Smith EDA 4Q07 EDA Market Forecast

    (Growth Persists Through Another Year) The EDA industry endured an extended growth slump through the first half of this decade, despite the substantially better performance of the semiconductor industry... Mercifully, as new tools have finally begun to emerge in earnest, EDA achieved its own recovery in 2006…with growth forecast to reach.
  • Cost: $1,000


  • 2007 Market Trends: 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


  • 2007 Market Trends: IC CAD

    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


  • 2007 EDA Market Forecast by Sub-Application

    Rather than a few large market areas, EDA is a collection of eighty seven sub-applications; all markets of their own, which really drive the overall market. If you want to understand EDA you need to follow these sub-application markets closely. Includes a five year market forecast for all sub-applications in the ESL, RTL and below, IC CAD and PCB application markets.
  • Cost: $2,000


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  • Cadence & Mentor –
    the Numbers

    GSEDA reviews the competitive positioning with current detailed sub-application analysis.  Next GSEDA looks at what would happen with the combined company in terms of expected market share taking into consideration leakage due to competing products.  Finally, GSEDA suggests three possible outcomes and the likely results
  • Cost: FREE


  • Is 2008 the Year for Analog/Mixed-Signal?

    Gary Smith EDA has been interviewing companies to uncover whether "Is 2008 going to be the year where analog design automation moves forward and catches up with digital design automation?" While there has been a shift away from in-house proprietary solutions to design tool integration, will DAC be the turning point?
  • Cost: FREE


  • A New Breed of Engineer

    While there have been some complaints on the quality of education for the new EE graduates, our experience has been positive...Recently some professors have been talking about a new engineering curriculum for embedded designers… We are seeing the need for an engineering curriculum for an entirely new breed of engineer...
  • Cost: FREE


  • The Stickiness Factor and Programming Models

    The whole premise of rapid development of complex chips using ESL techniques is highly dependent on the availability of good programming models…Think of the programming model as the new reference board...
  • Cost: FREE


  • EDP 2008: Multicore, Parallel Programming and Industry Outlook

    This year’s EDP conference in April focused on the continuing evolution of multi-core systems and their associated design problems. Semiconductor vendors reflected upon the difficulty of programming multicore platforms, the lack of software that could exploit the concurrency of the multicore design and the limiting nature of memory latency that holds down system speed...
  • Cost: FREE


  • DATE 2008

    Congratulations DATE, you've pulled it off...becoming a major conference for Embedded Software development, especially that pertaining to Multi-Core/Multi-Processor systems... What was even more impressive was...its intention of becoming a true "systems" design automation (SDA) conference, using this year's automotive emphasis to bring mechanical design to the table...
  • Cost: FREE


  • ASP-DAC 2008

    Trip report includes discussion of Jan Rabaey (UC Berkeley) keynote address, System-Level Design versus ESL versus System Design Automation, Network on Chips, model-based ESL versus language-based ESL, F.C. Tseng (TSMC) keynote address, Semiconductor Research Consortia, and Restrictive Design Rules...
  • Cost: FREE


  • Threads are Dead

    This DAC, Professor Wen-mei Hwu of UIUC said “Threads are dead.” There are 2 issues affecting EDA in the move to Multi-Core, Multi-Processing: first, design; this year the cost of software development, for an SoC, is passing the cost of the actual IC design. This is actually a major opportunity for EDA vendors...
  • Cost: FREE


  • ESL Wallchart 2008

    This Wallchart lists the ESL vendors by sub-application
  • Cost: FREE

  • CAD/CAM Wallchart 2008

    This Wallchart lists the EDA vendors by sub-application
  • Cost: FREE

  • What To See @ DAC 2008

    This list details the Hot New Products at DAC. The list is free to download.

    In order to receive permission to post the list on your website, you must purchase the Research Viewpoint

  • Cost: FREE

  • CAE Wallchart 2008

    This Wallchart lists the EDA vendors by sub-application
  • Cost: FREE


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