EDAgraffiti by Paul Mclellan

By Paul Mclellan

EDAgraffiti is 25 years of expertise within the EDA and semiconductor industries wrapped up right into a unmarried e-book. From semiconductor to enterprise capital, through revenues, advertising and marketing, engineering and administration.

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It’s not like that in other software industries. For Oracle, the last major change in databases was the relational database superseding hierarchical databases, and that was starting in the 1970s (first at IBM and then when Larry Ellison founded Oracle under its original name, Software Development Laboratories). It looks like there may be another change starting, driven by the Internet, to schema-free databases which scale better to thousands of servers. So one turn of the handle of Moore’s Law in 30 years, 15 to 20 times slower.

It’s called Chips and Change by Clair Brown and Greg Linden. If you have anything to do with semiconductors I recommend you buy a copy immediately. The book looks at semiconductor as an economic issue rather than from a technological point of view (although this is not ignored), which fits in with my view of the world. Semiconductor process transitions are driven by economics (cheaper transistors) more than technology (better transistors) especially now where leakage and other considerations make it unclear whether you are getting better transistors or only more of them.

This seems to be a thing of the past now, although most designs are still on the basic end of power saving (fixed voltage islands, power-down) and not yet attempting the really tricky things like dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (lowering the voltage and slowing the clock when there is not much to do). In the current hyper-cost-sensitive environment I think that the pendulum will swing back the other way towards these more pre44 Chapter 2: EDA Industry integrated flows and away from the integrate-your-own-pointtools approach.

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