Volume : 1, Issue : 6, November - 2012

Electronic Design & Automation Industry– An Open Source Survival Issues

Rajeev Kamal

Abstract :

Open Source companies have always been sticking to the fundamental principle of the Open Source community, i.e., sharing of resources for free. Not just one or two, but many companies are into the same track. For an amateur in the Open Source Domain, certainly a couple of giant questions arose, as what keeps them going even when the ‘Resource Sharing’ is to be kept for free? Aren’t monetary gains considered here? Is just a ‘motivation’ the sufficient force behind the survival of these companies or other gains also exist? The aim of this paper is to find the answers of such questions. Also is being tried–out to find about the facts about the Electronics Design & Automation (EDA) industries who has established themselves as the role models for the starters, even knowing high EDA market trends. The survival issues have been considered for them. The paper also throws some light on turn–over of some of the major players just to highlight the role of Open Source in profit making. This paper will follow a straight approach of showcasing major players in the EDA field and then their counterparts in the Open Source EDA field, and then comparing their strategies and concluding by trying to figure out the future of latter.