{"id":63962,"date":"2025-03-06T15:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ieee-pels.org\/?post_type=magazine&#038;p=63962"},"modified":"2025-03-06T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:03:25","slug":"involvement-in-the-pels-industry-committee-is-worth-your-time-industry-pulse","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/www.ieee-pels.org\/magazine\/involvement-in-the-pels-industry-committee-is-worth-your-time-industry-pulse\/","title":{"rendered":"EDA, Open-Source Software, and the Future of Electronic Simulation (Industry Pulse)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I haven\u2019t always worked in Power Electronics, I\u2019ve spent a lot of time with simulation tools including circuit solvers, electromagnetic simulation, and TCAD (technology computer-aided design). Therefore, I couldn\u2019t help but raise an eyebrow or two at the January 2024 news that Synopsys was buying ANSYS for U.S. $35B USD, creating the biggest Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company on the market. But what does EDA really mean anymore? The \u201cbig three\u201d EDA players (Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA), are moving towards systems design, through marketing and acquisitions, though Siemens EDA still proudly wears the term in its title.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, we\u2019ll dive into how the EDA industry has evolved to be systems tool vendors, encompassing not just semiconductor level design and layout but nearly every aspect of the electronic product lifecycle. We\u2019ll highlight the three business models that exist today, look at some of the trends happening in EDA, and discuss challenges and opportunities these models will introduce to users (you!) especially as computationally heavy features like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Digital Twins become more prevalent.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this article, click <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10906703\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I haven\u2019t always worked in Power Electronics, I\u2019ve spent a lot of time with simulation tools including circuit solvers, electromagnetic simulation, and TCAD (technology computer-aided design). 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