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Many people look to me for predictions about changes in the EDA industry and some even talk about predictions that I made 10 years or more ago that are proving to be true. When many of those predictions are first made, people ask what I am drinking, especially those related to ESL and verification. But I have to admit there are other changes that take me by surprise, or perhaps more accurately they were happening right in front of my eyes and I just didn’t notice. One of those changes hit me in the face at DAC this year. It is the way in which the EDA industry itself is changing. The business models, the notions of startups being acquired by the big three as they consolidate the industry to provide front to back flows for the complete design cycles has almost stopped. Those days are over, or at the very least in decline.