Re:China wants to become a semiconductor superpower, budgeti...
by typon on Saturday January 30, 2016 @10:24AM
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People use ICManage quite frequently, which is essentially a Perforce fork.
Agreed that Synopsys/Cadence tools are severely outdated and terrible.
They need to be rewritten from scratch and designed by actual UX/UI designers for the front end. Their backend algorithms are already state of the art for the most part (e.g. Place and route and simulation).
A huge hurdle in making a Virtuoso or Encounter replacement is that foundries are not going to work with you because they already have such deep relationships with Cadence/Synopsys. It's an extremely nontrivial task to get that up and running.
Agreed that Synopsys/Cadence tools are severely outdated and terrible.
They need to be rewritten from scratch and designed by actual UX/UI designers for the front end. Their backend algorithms are already state of the art for the most part (e.g. Place and route and simulation).
A huge hurdle in making a Virtuoso or Encounter replacement is that foundries are not going to work with you because they already have such deep relationships with Cadence/Synopsys. It's an extremely nontrivial task to get that up and running.