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Now that I am back from honeymoon, the obligatory post-honeymoon-email-catch-up-marathon and then some business travel, I find myself in lots of discussions around application domains and the specific characteristics how system integrators, chip vendors and software vendors interact. How can one visualize the interaction between the different participants in the design chain? Is it applications driving the hardware or hardware enabling applications?

One way to illustrate design chain interactions are the “ASV Triangles”, which Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli created in the late 90’s while I was product manager in the Felix/VCC team. Cadence VCC of course is described in “A Prescription for Electronic System Level Methodology” as one of the “Trailblazer Projects”  for system-level design (Synopsys Behavioral Compiler being the other).