Analyst Gary Smith: top 10 EDA topics for 2007

Richard Goering, EE Times
(12/28/2006 4:25 PM EST)
 
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Veteran EDA analyst Gary Smith, founder and chief analyst of Gary Smith EDA, has provided a "top ten list" of hot topics for electronic design in 2007. Smith was Gartner Dataquest's chief EDA analyst until that firm suddenly closed its CAD research group in October 2006. The top ten topics, with explanations by Smith, follow. Smith noted that they aren't in any particular order of importance, and that the most significant, in fact, is number ten (multicore design).