What inspired Euphorion to create the Business Innovation Platform? We looked at other industries that solved similar problems. The Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry is a good example.

Moore's Law

Many people wonder how computers have evolved from rooms of huge mainframe computers to even more powerful lap-tops in such a short period of time.

The answer is Moore's Law. In 1965, Gordan Moore observed that the number of transistors per IC chip doubles every 18 months.

Mr. Moore was right - and his has held true for the last 30 years.

Escalating gate counts, while driving the creation of everything from lap-tops to celluar phones, mean IC Designers must be able to create much more complex functions in ever-shortening design cycles.

Enter the EDA Industry

In the 1970s, the design of ICs was done by physically placing tape on pieces of glass to represent the size and shape of transistors. This was time-consuming and error-prone - made worse by the fact that the chip had to be actually built to test the logic.

In the early 1980s, this process was moved onto computers. The advantages were enormous. Not only were designs quicker to complete, but they could be tested virtually without actually building a chip.

But designing this way still required precise calculations of the size and shape of transistors. The demand for trained electronic engineers increased faster than they could be trained. But since computers are better at calculations than humans, this part of the process was automated. Now the design could be expressed in terms of boolean logic gates and connections.

But as gate counts and complexity continued to increase through the end of the 1980s, moving and connecting symbols became too time-consuming, and the design was expressed through hundreds pages of little shapes.

Luckily, compute power was increasing as well, because the next step was to move up another level of abstraction. A behavioral programming language is now used to describe the function of the chip. The behavioral description is automatically compiled, and mapped down to the transistor level.

This process is called Synthesis.