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To: RealMuLan who wrote (180)	8/7/2003 8:09:11 PM
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Synopsys CEO lauds China's design future by Richard Wallace, EETimes Semiconductor Business News 08/07/2003, 8:19 AM ET SHANGHAI, China " China has made "fantastic progress" in establishing prowess in electronic design automation to support its booming manufacturing industry, but it will take several years before designers here move up the complexity curve into the most advanced silicon designs. That's the assessment of Synopsys Inc. chief executive officer Aart de Geus, who was in China last week touring company and industry facilities in and around Shanghai. EE Times caught up with de Geus during a lunch break at a Synopsys management-training program for its China staff at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Shanghai's ultramodern Pudong district, on the banks of the Yangtze River. While China's universities and engineering schools continue to turn out a bumper crop of engineers -- especially design engineers -- most design work in China today is focused on "cost reduction," de Geus said. The design-engineering effort is supported by a massive government-industry program that involves national, state and regional government funding coupled with private investment, entrepreneurial activity and professional training. "This is the early-investment phase of the industry, and the government has decided that electronics will be important and that they can play an important role," de Geus said. "Many design incubation centers have been set up and these are surrounded by startups that try get these things going, and they are making fantastic progress." To date, seven of these emerging chip design centers, known within the Chinese electronics sector as "semiconductor-manufacturing design bases," have sprung up. The newest and largest of them can be found here in the heart of old Shanghai. Situated in a busy commercial shopping district surrounded by retail stores and blocks of metal and tool supply job shops, the Shanghai Design Base is housed in a recently renovated six-story office building. The ring of design bases runs around Shanghai, Shenzen, Beijing, Chengdu, Xian, Wuxi and Hang Zhou. Often located adjacent to a major electronics-manufacturing plant, many of these campuses include mini-villages of dormitory and apartment housing for workers, not all of them completed or occupied. Each design base can support up to 100 independent design centers " design shops that do layout, design and verification of low- and mid-level silicon, and cost reduction work in semiconductor geometries in the 0.35-micron to 0.25-micron range. Some develop their own intellectual property (IP). ... siliconstrategies.com