[myhdl-list] Proposed Article: "The coming paradigm shift in Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing"

[Christopher L. <loz...@fr...>]

In Thomas Kuhn's 1962 book "The structure of scientific revolutions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions

He talks about different world views, and the transition from one world 
view to the other.

It is amazing how many blank stares I got at the conference.  I wish I 
had a video of it.
It is pretty clear to me that this is a change in world view.  The old 
school talks about
Design, Synthesis, Validation and Verification.  The new guys talk about 
models, missing libraries,
interfacing to boards.  It is a different paradigm.

Sure we all see clearly where this is going.  Thank you for the 
excellent critique this morning on the absence of class libraries.  That 
is why I am helping the marketing.  I cannot write all the needed class 
libraries, much easier to recruit in others who will do so.

But we need to operate on a higher level.  We need to call this a 
paradigm shift, and tell people that they need to get educated about 
this paradigm shift, and suddenly we are not the outcasts, we become the 
future.  We hold the moral high ground.

So I echo Jan's comments, that I am in this for the long run.  It is 
just clear to me that this is what the future holds.  But I also think 
that this can all happen very fast, in parallel, with lots of different 
people contributing different things.

Quick Paradigm Test.  Did you ask yourself why this article would also 
cover manufacturing?  Then you are still embedded in the old functional 
decomposition paradigm.  "Over here we have design and over here we have 
manufacturing".  In the new paradigm we just talk about the object model 
of semiconductors, and once you have that right, it is easy to do lots 
of different applications, Design, Synthesis, validation, manufacturing 
planning, shop floor scheduling, engineering data analysis.    It is a 
paradigm shift.

For the record, I used to do object models of manufacturing.  Those guys 
just did not get it.  I ran away.   Only recently did I understand that 
a paradigm shift was needed.  Clearly the same is true in Semiconductor 
design.

As the paradigm shifts, the language we use changes as well.  We need to 
support this young student from Argentina.  He sees the future.   
Paradigm shifts happen when the old school is replaced by the young school.

-- 
Regards
Christopher Lozinski

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