IC chip design trends discussed at CDNLive India 2015

EDA software vendor Cadence held its CDNLive India 2015 event on 18th and 19th of Aug in Bangalore. The event as usual talked about latest industry trends on general electronics industry and also specific to VLSI/semiconductor industry. Lip-Bu Tan, president and CEO of Cadence talked more about smart home and automotive electronics. He highlighted the features in Smart home such as smart thermostat, airconditioner which follows weather, detects occupancy, learning patterns, adjust energy use. And in automotives, trends such as explosion in vision processing, fusion of sensors, cabin acoustics, electronic mirrors, always aware systems sensing sound movement, position sensing are the features driving the design requirement of both electronics as well as chips inside them. Today, between 3/4th of all car innovations are based directly or indirectly on semiconductors. Car makers around the world thinking over the idea of internal chip design team. Smart home is one system of subsystems and smart-automotive is another such system of subsystems. In today's interconnected world, your personal digital device, cloud computers/data centers, smart home and automotive has to work together like a system of systems, where functional safety gains exponential importance. Lip Bu Tan presented a video on how system of systems are evolving. Connected smart homes, smartcars with ma...