( SNUG 02 Item 3 ) --------------------------------------------- [ 5/15/02 ]
Subject: Exactly Who Came To SNUG'02?
A MINI-CENSUS: This data comes from the customer survey taken at the SNUG'02
meeting itself. A total of 269 out of the 451 SNUG'02 attendees responded.
Here's the stats on the types of designs these engineers are creating:
Standard Cell / SoC ######################################## 79%
Full Custom ##### 11%
Gate Array ## 5%
FPGA/CPLD ## 4%
Other # 2%
The speed, size, and process of the chips they're designing:
1 - 99 MHz ###### 13%
100 - 199 MHz ############ 25%
200 - 299 Mhz ############## 27 %
300 - 499 MHz ############ 23%
500 + Mhz ###### 12 %
1 - 300 Kgates ######### 17%
301 - 500 Kgates ###### 12%
501 - 999 Kgates ## 4%
1 Mgates ######## 16%
1.001 - 2 Mgates ########## 19%
2.001 - 5 Mgates ######### 18%
5+ Mgates ####### 14%
0.25 um or higher # 3%
0.25 um ### 7%
0.18 um ######################## 48%
0.15 um ##### 10%
0.13 um ############# 26%
0.11 um # 3%
0.10 um 1%
below 0.15 um # 2%
Ckeck out last year's stats in SNUG 01 #3 and you'll be surprized to see
how dramatically things have changed in one year -- especially in design
gate counts and fab processes being used. Last year only 36% of designs
were 1 million gates or more. Now 67% are! Last year 73% of designs were
at or below 0.18 um. Now 90% are.
Their P&R design flow:
Hand-off P&R To ASIC Vendor ############### 29%
We Use Avanti P&R ################# 33%
We Use Cadence P&R ############ 24%
We Use Magma P&R # 3%
We Use Our Own In-House P&R ## 5%
"other" P&R ## 6%
Again, much has changed in 12 short months. Last year, 59% of designers
handed off P&R to their ASIC vendor; this year only 29% are. Also 18%
used Avanti P&R and 16% used Cadence P&R. This year it's 33% Avanti,
24% Cadence, and 3% Magma for customer-owned P&R tools.
And the fabs they're designing for:
In-House Company Fab ################## 35%
TSMC ########################## 52%
UMC ############### 29%
IBM ######### 17%
LSI ######### 17%
Xilinx ###### 13%
Texas Instruments ##### 10%
Altera ### 6%
Philips ## 5%
Chartered ## 5%
STMicroelectronics
NEC, Fujitsu, Lucent
Toshiba, Mitsubishi # 3% or less
While these numbers are generally the same as last year's, this year TSMC
and UMC jumped dramatically. Last year (2001) they were:
TSMC ############### 31%
UMC ##### 10%
Which explains why all the EDA vendors are going out of their way to say
that they work with TSMC in their press releases.
So, in a nutshell, SNUG'02 was a conference of high-end chip designers.
"The one thing I appreciated at SNUG was the poster session. I think it
is a really valuable part of the conference -- both for the presenters
as well as the audience."
- C.V. Krishna of Case Western Reserve University
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