SMD: Should EDA Heads Be In The Cloud?
OneSpin’s Raik Brinkmann serves as an eloquent spokesman for cloud computing within EDA, notes Brian Fuller of Cadence
Consider the following two comments about cloud computing and electronic design automation:
- “Over time everybody will move to the cloud in EDA at least in some extent.”—Raik Brinkmann, CEO of OneSpin Solutions.
- “We put a substantial effort into that, and of all the things we’ve done in the last 25 years this is probably the single one where the result is essentially zero. I don’t mean some money, I mean zero.”—Synopsys CEO Aart de Geus on cloud efforts.
Synopsys’ efforts might be reflected in De Geus’ quote above; Cadence has edged toward to the cloud a bit, and CEO Lip-bu Tan said earlier this year “we’re keeping a very close eye on it. We’re ready, we just have to wait and get customer requests for it.”
