By Jeremy Ralph, CEO PDTi
The top level benefits of cloud computing – including economic, flexibility, and simplification benefits are well known and widely experienced across various industries. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a great example of how one level of cloud computing has created significant industry transformation, and now represents over 25% of revenue in some software markets. EDA is slowly joining this transformation, with challenges remaining for both vendors and customers. For customers, the most commonly listed issues with cloud computing seem to be security and design flow limitations. The former is a topic to itself, while design flow limitations are of course more specific to EDA. This then becomes the vendor challenge, taking a new technology and applying it to EDA to solve problems in better ways and by taking advantage of key cloud computing attributes, not necessarily by simply moving existing applications onto some type of cloud service. Read the full article at Chip Design Magazine.