Summary

• Current DM tools understand editing
  • checkout ? edit ? checkin

• Current DM tools don’t understand non-editing design steps
  • e.g. compilation, synthesis, simulation, DRC, translation...
  • user must track missing dimensions manually (traceability/equivalence/derivation, hierarchy)
  • and recorded versioning info is too ambiguous (e.g. to automate things)

• Present: D(esign)M is basically F(ile)M
  • ‘only slightly important’: Quality benefit! Productivity benefit?
  • limited progress in EDA community in past decade

• Future: intelligent design process assistants
  • this works if tools are design process aware
    • requires sophisticated, configurable systems
  • prime example: Delft University’s NELSIS (1985-1995)
  • major opportunity for ‘old startups’ or ‘new startups’?

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