But that all means nothing for companies who buy Virtuoso copies from from guys trading WaReZ in pedestrian underpasses in BJ.
A number of quite reputable SoC brands here in the PRD are known to be based on 100% pirated EDAs.
This is not a critique, but a call to think about that a bit.
In China, you can spin-up a microelectronics startup in under $1m, in USA, you will spend $1m to just buy a minimal EDA toolchain for the business.
Allwinner famously started with just $1m in capital, when disgruntled engineers from Actions decided to start their own business.
But that all means nothing for companies who buy Virtuoso copies from from guys trading WaReZ in pedestrian underpasses in BJ.
A number of quite reputable SoC brands here in the PRD are known to be based on 100% pirated EDAs.
This is not a critique, but a call to think about that a bit.
In China, you can spin-up a microelectronics startup in under $1m, in USA, you will spend $1m to just buy a minimal EDA toolchain for the business.
Allwinner famously started with just $1m in capital, when disgruntled engineers from Actions decided to start their own business.