Reinventing EDA with manycore processors

ABSTRACT

Faced with continually coping with Moore's Law, computer-aided design (CAD) for integrated circuits is used to facing challenges in our ever-evolving design problem. Increasing device complexity is a perennial challenge and has led to several discontinuities in design methodology. Over the last decade deep submicron physical effects have significantly complicated the design process and required new efforts in design for manufacturability. With the emergence of multicore and manycore microprocessor systems we face a new type of challenge: Not only will our design object (the microprocessor systems themselves) take another leap in complexity, but for the first time in our industry's history we will need to fundamentally change the way we design and implement our software solutions as well. In this panel a broad set of representatives at the front lines of addressing this challenge will outline how they plan to respond. Representative questions to the panelists include:

Does your company have a similar corporate-level strategy for parallelizing CAD applications? Or is each business unit or product group left to craft its own strategy?

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  B. Hardware
  B.7 INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
      B.7.2 Design Aids

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Languages, Performance

Keywords:
CAD, EDA, manycore, multicore, parallelization, software, speedup