IoT Lacks Tools, Says EDA Vet

Sangiovanni-Vincentelli gives DARPA a role

Rick Merritt, EETimes
9/11/2015 07:00 AM EDT

SAN JOSE, Calif. — New design tools are needed to orchestrate an emerging swarm of networked sensors and the services they will spawn, said a Berkeley researcher and veteran of the EDA industry.

“The Internet of Things is just an intermediate step on the way to the sensor dominated world” where the numbers of networked sensors will exceed the population by several orders of magnitude, said Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, a Berkeley professor and co-founder of EDA giants Cadence and Synopsys.

“Complexity is growing in a way unlike we have seen before, everything will be affected by the swarm system and more unpredicted interactions are possible,” he said in a talk at a conference hosted by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

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