The EDA industry is guilty of not taking responsibility for the entire design flow and needs to provide customers with greater automation in order to see revenue growth, according to Rajeev Madhavan, chairman and CEO of Magma Design Automation Inc. ...

"The cost of silicon integration is forcing our customers to pay us less," Madhavan said. "We as an industry need to step up to the plate to make sure that that doesn't happen."  Madhavan noted that EDA revenue as a percentage of semiconductor industry revenue has shrunk from 2.1 percent to 1.7 percent in recent years. But, he said, as a percentage of profit margin, semiconductor companies are now paying more for EDA tools than they have in years past.

Article: EDA industry needs to take responsibility, Madhavan says by Dylan McGrath   EE Times (04/12/2006 12:44 AM EDT)