Essential Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

Four Key EDA User Decisions

Hugo:

Nora, we first need to clarify some issues before we talk about tools. An IC design manager or the EDA manager has to deal with four main questions. (I act in both roles here, by the way, as a design manager and as an EDA manager.) Those questions are: What is the design organization (who and where)? What kind of network capability will you need? What are the security requirements you must meet? What kind of computer systems do you need? I listed them in this order because each depends somewhat on the previous answers. The tools used are affected by the answers to these questions. Let's take them one by one.

Organization

1. First, look at the organization. Will one or two people or a group do the design work? Will they ...