More Growth in EDA

I love to read good news about growth in EDA especially when our industry has seen single-digit growth for several years now. What I read on March 8th from ClioSoft stated a 53% increase in bookings for 2011, now that’s what I call growth.

ClioSoft provides Hardware Configuration Management (HCM) software to EDA users typically doing transistor-level IC design for both schematics and layout. I’ve been able to speak with several users of ClioSoft tools last year to find out first-hand what their experience was in adopting and using HCM in an IC design flow:

• Grego Sanguinetti, Tektronix
• Nani Subramanian, Mosys
• James Rollins, Avnera
• Stephen Crosher, Moortec

I blogged recently about, “What Just Changed on my Transistor-Level Schematic” and it’s getting plenty of discussion both here at SemiWiki and on LinkedIn with some 1,261 page views at SemiWiki in under a month. Engineers are interested in how to manage their IC design projects better, especially as their team size grows and becomes geographically separated.

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