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The move to electronic system level (ESL) technologies such as virtual prototyping is well underway - but what's the impact on the engineering organization? A recent panel discussion and an industry note published by analyst Gary Smith both suggested that new engineering roles are evolving, and several Cadence people who regularly work with customers agree.

I already wrote about the DesignCon panel discussion on the "designer of the future," so a very brief summary will suffice here. Panelists talked about who will be responsible for hardware/software partitioning. One suggested that experts in system target applications will do this task, while others spoke of engineers whose expertise spans both hardware and software. On the panel, Gary Smith suggested that a "new level" of designer is appearing below system architects and is focusing on high-level modeling as a "new area of engineering."

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