Big Design, IP and End Market Shifts In 2020

Design starts are up significantly thanks to increased investment in areas such as AI, a plethora of new communications standards, buildout of the Cloud, the race toward autonomous driving and continued advancements in mobile phones. Many designs demand the latest technologies and push the limits of complexity. Low power is becoming more than just reducing wasted power at the chip level. It is becoming an important environmental consideration. The focus of environmentalists increasingly will be toward the semiconductor industry. Systems are becoming more distributed, driven by the IoT, requiring new approaches to both design and verification.