.... has been the outsourcing of design. However, outsourcing doesn't always mean off-shoring. In the simplest context, when a product is outsourced, control over its design and possibly manufacturing is handed off to a separate entity. In the case of design outsourcing, there are multiple models and a combination of these models can be used for any given project. A system vendor can contract a third party to design certain blocks for the design under development. Previous columns have looked at independent IP providers and analogue IP as important pieces of this chain (see Analysis: Chip design outsourcers must embrace IP and Analysis: Analog is driving Indo-Western partnership). This piece looks at the contributions of EDA vendors to the supply chain and how they are supporting their customers to achieve this vision of global design...

Original Article can be read at  Analysis: Influence of outsourced design on EDA written by Daya Nadamuni, Gartner Group