Cadence Tries to Incite Its Industry to Think Bigger
Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) is not exactly the first company to suggest the app explosion has changed everything. But it has an unusual vantage point to discuss how other companies may jump on high-tech’s latest bandwagon.
The company, readers may recall, is one of the best-known players in what Silicon Valley has long called EDA, or electronic design automation. What that has meant, historically, is software for designing computer chips. Think of engineers toiling endlessly in front of mind-bending diagrams on computer screens, working for the day they can push the button to send a chip design off to be manufactured at a factory in Taiwan.
