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Open source again

The blog entry on open source seems to have generated more comments than anything else. Maybe it’s because all the EDA users want software to be free, and all the EDA producers are worried that it might head in that … Continue reading

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Super-models

I wrote earlier in the week about open source software in EDA, or rather about the lack of it. One area where there is some free and open source software, as well as closed source software, is on that boundary … Continue reading

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Where is all the open-source EDA software?

There is a big cultural difference between tools for IC design and tools for software design. A difference in the way they are developed, the way they are sold, the way they are deployed. I think there are two reasons. … Continue reading

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