Survey Shows Hidden Market for ESL and FPGA; Electronic System Level Design and FPGAs Are the Big Winners in This Year's Worldwide Survey on Designer Trends
ABINGDON, England—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Aug. 31, 2005—
Celoxica today announced the results of the second
annual worldwide design trends survey, conducted by Electronics Weekly
and Celoxica. The results, revealed not only a significant planned
increase in ESL methodology adoption, but demonstrated that much of
the true market for ESL tools is "hidden" from much of the analysis of
the market. The survey showed more than 40 percent of the market is
outside the realm of hardware and semiconductor design, none of which
are regularly polled by traditional analysis.
In this year's survey, open to the design community for two months
between mid May and mid July 2005, 723 designers responded to more
than 30 questions about current and future design activity.
Headlining the survey 58 percent of designers recorded intent to
increase their use of ESL design, with SystemC usage set to increase
three-fold in next design projects. In 2006, 20 percent of FPGA
designs will exceed five million gates and more than two-thirds of
designers will use FPGAs coupled to an embedded processor, off-chip
processor or DSP. FPGA based prototyping maintains its critical role
in ASIC development, with 69 percent of ASIC designers reporting
usage. FPGA designs with clock frequencies above 500Mhz are set to
treble in 2006, though this figure is still well down on 500Mhz and
greater than 750Mhz ASIC design numbers.
Interestingly, the survey pointed out the growing use of FPGA and
ESL by users not traditionally responsible for hardware design. Over
50% of algorithm developers reported using FPGA devices in their end
products, and production FPGA usage was also high among systems and
software engineers. This same group also reported the highest intent
to use ESL tools in their next design projects.
"The survey confirms our experience that ESL design and
programmable silicon are pushing the boundaries of EDA growth," said
Jeff Jussel, vice president of marketing for Celoxica. "We are seeing
adoption of ESL design acceleration across the board. Increasing size,
complexity and the use of multiple HW and SW components and SoC in new
designs mean that trend will continue."
The survey results also gave rise to issues that the design
community and EDA vendors need to tackle. A massive 86 percent of
designers reported no training in ESL design languages and nearly a
quarter cited education and training as a key issue in encouraging ESL
adoption.
Comprehensive survey results and analysis are available at
www.celoxica.com/designersurvey
About Celoxica
An innovator in Electronic System Level (ESL) design, Celoxica is
turning software into silicon by supplying the design tools, boards,
IP and services that enable the next generation of advanced electronic
product design. Celoxica technology raises design abstraction to the
algorithm level, accelerating productivity and lowering risk and costs
by generating semiconductor hardware directly from C-based software
descriptions. Adding to a growing installed base, Celoxica provides
the world's most widely used C-based behavioral design and synthesis
solutions to companies developing semiconductor products in markets
such as consumer electronics, defense and aerospace, automotive,
industrial and security. For more information, visit:
www.celoxica.com.
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