In a recent blog post titled A revolution in EDA?, I talked about how small EDA companies might be able to use modern web technologies and trends to help them reduce the high cost of sales so pervasive in EDA right now. In that post, I mentioned that EDA users are looking for better solutions, with good ROI, and flexible licensing terms. I talked about a number of things related to this, but one thing I didn't cover was the licensing and distribution model.
Recently, I read a blog by Harry...the ASIC guy that really resonated with me. It was titled Birth of an EDA Revolution. Harry's thesis in this blog was:
The pieces are coming together for a revolution in EDA. Like most revolutions, it is starting small, hardly noticed by the big guys on the block. In the next 5 years, it will change our industry forever by levelling the playing field, allowing smaller EDA companies to compete with larger ones, giving customers greater flexibility on how and when they access tools and which vendor’s tools they use.
The reason this resonated with me is that we here at Hyper Analytix are banking on the premise that it is more possible than ever before for smaller EDA players to compete with the bigger players.
