EDA In The Cloud I Part 1
By Brian Bailey, Semiconductor Engineering
Experts at the Table, part 1: While the Cloud may be ready for EDA, it is not clear how ready EDA is for the Cloud. What needs to change?
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And they have the experience with the finance and personnel and the IT applications. You talked about the finances from the customer side. From the vendor side we are beginning to figure out business models that make sense for the cloud. We don’t want to take something that used to be sold for $100,000 and have someone pay $100 per hour for a couple of days and be done with it. You have to adjust the thinking. Second, EDA vendors were talking about running on their Cloud five years ago. It turns out that people are more willing to trust Amazon than they are EDA vendors. That is because it is their livelihood that is at stake and they run many other IT applications in the Cloud. Finally, as EDA tools have become better at parallelizing what they do, not just LSFing jobs. That seems to be driving more interest in the Cloud.
