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A few years back, I had read some interesting articles on having a public cloud infrastructure that also supports chip design flows including shared EDA tool licences.
There was also this company Silicon Cloud International which seems was working in this same area. No news heard or seen recently
I am interested to know if there is any traction on this as I thought this would be a good business model for smaller companies as they dont have to maintain their own pool of EDA tool licences and the compute infrastructure.
Yes, there have been many attempts at using the Cloud to distribute EDA tools, however for leading-edge SoC design teams their number one concern is Intellectual Property security, therefore the Cloud has been avoided because of the daily accounts of hacked cloud-based systems.
Private clouds installed internally to an SoC company have some slight chance of being used, because there the customer controls the security and the IP never leaves the building, so to speak.
Yes, many prospective cloud-based EDA users expect to have lower cost of ownership, however the EDA companies do not want to "give away" their tools at low values.
