Taiwan needs to accelerate the development of EDA
28 August 2023
The Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) urges the local industry and academia to increase research and development of electronic design automation (EDA) to fill Taiwan's lack of tools and solutions for system-level design and innovative architecture.
With the increasing difficulty of heterogeneous integration, improving design efficiency and accuracy is the key direction of Taiwan's semiconductor industry. Several EDA vendors, including Synopsys, Cadence, and Maxeda, have started developing AI to help with design data analysis and design process optimization.
At the same time, China has been working hard to keep up by investing heavily in EDA research and development, but Taiwan's academic research on EDA from front-end logic synthesis to back-end physical design / DFM research is still quite solid, making Taiwan the second largest in the world.
In the United States, artificial intelligence is used to implement EDA and open source technologies, but Taiwan is still in the early stages of letting artificial intelligence do its job.
Although Taiwan can reduce chip power consumption and design costs for AI, autonomous driving, and 5G-related applications, enabling one chip to implement multiple functions through hardware-software optimization and reprogrammability is a key direction that MOST is driving the Taiwan semiconductor industry.
Chan-Foon Chan, President and Co-CEO of Synopsys, received the MOST Achievement Award. He also noted that artificial intelligence, automotive, data security and 5G applications are driving growth in the semiconductor industry.
So far, Synopsys has invested more than NT $ 14.4 billion (US $ 479.3 million) in Taiwan and has been participating in the Taiwan government's EDA and AI chip research and development projects since July 2019. The company also plans to invest another NT $ 800 million in the next two years to make more investments.
With the increasing difficulty of heterogeneous integration, improving design efficiency and accuracy is the key direction of Taiwan's semiconductor industry. Several EDA vendors, including Synopsys, Cadence, and Maxeda, have started developing AI to help with design data analysis and design process optimization.
At the same time, China has been working hard to keep up by investing heavily in EDA research and development, but Taiwan's academic research on EDA from front-end logic synthesis to back-end physical design / DFM research is still quite solid, making Taiwan the second largest in the world.
In the United States, artificial intelligence is used to implement EDA and open source technologies, but Taiwan is still in the early stages of letting artificial intelligence do its job.
Although Taiwan can reduce chip power consumption and design costs for AI, autonomous driving, and 5G-related applications, enabling one chip to implement multiple functions through hardware-software optimization and reprogrammability is a key direction that MOST is driving the Taiwan semiconductor industry.
Chan-Foon Chan, President and Co-CEO of Synopsys, received the MOST Achievement Award. He also noted that artificial intelligence, automotive, data security and 5G applications are driving growth in the semiconductor industry.
So far, Synopsys has invested more than NT $ 14.4 billion (US $ 479.3 million) in Taiwan and has been participating in the Taiwan government's EDA and AI chip research and development projects since July 2019. The company also plans to invest another NT $ 800 million in the next two years to make more investments.
