Darpa invests $100M in a silicon compiler
"Most importantly, we have to change the culture of hardware design. Today, we don’t have open sharing … "This, to the 100th power.The culture in the EDA industry is stuck in the 1950's when it comes to collaboration and sharing, it's very frustrating for newcomers and people who want to learn the trade.As was pointed out by someone in another hardware related HN thread, what can you expect from an industry that is still stuck calling a component "Intellectual Property"?The un-sharing is built into the very names used to describe things.