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Every once in a while the topic of what the EDA industry should be resurfaces. In the last few weeks I have read ideas from Rick Carlson, Joe Costello and Chris Rowen. All three are seasoned, successful EDA personalities who are, mostly due to the lack of new funding in the industry, unhappy with EDA. Unfortunately all three must bear some of the blame, since they are part of the successful EDA entrepreneurs who made the industry what it is today.

By this I mean the industry is a service industry providing engineering tools to semiconductors and system houses to be used to develop and build semiconductor ICs. The fact that the end users make much more money selling their products while EDA vendors fight over the Costello proverbial dog food bowl is a fundamental characteristics of a service industry such as EDA. Yes, our technology is supreme and second to none, but we still just build tools to build ICs and thus the price of a tool is bound by the availability of similar tools fighting for the relatively few customers available.

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