Comments on: Can SaaS Really Make Chip Design Easier? http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/blog/2008/12/17/can-saas-really-make-chip-design-easier/ Deep Insights for Chip Architects and Engineers Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:29:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jeremy Ralph http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/blog/2008/12/17/can-saas-really-make-chip-design-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-785 Jeremy Ralph Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:28:20 +0000 http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/?p=587#comment-785 Interesting Article. Harry theAsicGuy.com has been covering this topic for some time. With SaaS, I think it’s important to differentiate between: i) those SaaSes that will run in a web-browser, as you’d expect from SaaS leaders like Salesforce.com, Windows Live, Flickr, TurboTax,Google Apps, 37Signals, and so on. vs. ii) hosted applications that must be accessed using a VPN client that the user must download and pre-configure. Both Xuropa (online EDA trade-show), and http://SpectaReg.com (for register automation) are of type i). These are fully SaaS EDA apps that run from a web browser, Web2.0 style. With Cadence Hosted Design Solutions, my understanding is that you remotely connect to Cadence servers and access them over a VPN. This is not really a web-application. I look forward to the day when simulators and synthesis tools run from a web-browser. Based on our web-app development experience at PDTi over the last 4 years years, creating EDA tools that in run from a web-browser is not easy. Big EDA may have a lot of learning and work to do before they can offer these types of applications. Interesting Article. Harry theAsicGuy.com has been covering this topic for some time.

With SaaS, I think it’s important to differentiate between:

i) those SaaSes that will run in a web-browser, as you’d expect from SaaS leaders like Salesforce.com, Windows Live, Flickr, TurboTax,Google Apps, 37Signals, and so on.

vs.

ii) hosted applications that must be accessed using a VPN client that the user must download and pre-configure.

Both Xuropa (online EDA trade-show), and http://SpectaReg.com (for register automation) are of type i). These are fully SaaS EDA apps that run from a web browser, Web2.0 style.

With Cadence Hosted Design Solutions, my understanding is that you remotely connect to Cadence servers and access them over a VPN. This is not really a web-application.

I look forward to the day when simulators and synthesis tools run from a web-browser.

Based on our web-app development experience at PDTi over the last 4 years years, creating EDA tools that in run from a web-browser is not easy. Big EDA may have a lot of learning and work to do before they can offer these types of applications.

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