( ESNUG 585 Item 9 ) ---------------------------------------------- [03/27/19]
Subject: Costello on EDA ossification, cloud, and RedHawk vs. GreenHawk
DAC'18 Troublemakers Panel in San Francisco
Costello: I've generally been away from the (EDA) business for at least a
decade. And coming back, and one of the things I'd like to kind
of echo and reinforce from the comments in this panel is this
whole thing: you've got to spend the time to do it right, and to
develop the technologies that actually solve the problem.
It won't start out great, it's not going to instantly take over
because there is a lot of legacy. But I will tell you coming
back into this business, it feels very ossified by the legacy,
you know... slowed down by the legacy.
And I think we use that. It's used as a whip to keep people from
doing some of the new things, and say "how come you're not doing
better?" Because you know, the one that's been the established
dominant king for so long is still doing better than you.
And we've got to stop that. You know when I got into the
business, everything was done in mainframe computers by central
CAD groups, and that was the "church" at that time -- the
cathedral. And it broke apart because ASICs and workstations
came along that completely changed it and allowed designers to
get access to this.
I think we're seeing another chance for evolution right now with
the cloud. With Cloud, we ossified in a different... it was a
new cathedral. Which is, big companies have their own server
farms and they put these, someone was saying 'these design flows
in place that work but they're fragile and sacred and don't
change them.
And we can't use a new tool we better stick with friggin' RedHawk
instead of whatever the name'... the new one...
GreenHawk. (laughter)
Cooley: Red Hawk, GreenHawk? What the hell...
Costello: And like, that's the new thing. And then, and it slows things
down, it keeps things stuck.
And by the way you have to run on... you have to use those
legacy things and only the big guys have those server farms.
Well you know the Cloud starts breaking this up. I think it's
a wonderful elixir to start dissolving some of this ossification,
and free things up.
Because any designer, you know one guy by himself can have a
million machine's access, right? And if the flows and the tools
start changing to enable that with some new things done right,
it will change the world of EDA, and open it up and bring a lot
more life blood back in again.
Dean: Hear!, hear!
Mo: We are doing that. (laughter)
Costello: See, this is already happening.
Cooley: This (Mo) is your new blood.
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