IC design on the World Wide Web

A design log-jam is imminent. By 2001, designers of a single application-specific IC may have over 100 million transistors at their beck and call, according to the US Semiconductor Industry Association´s National Roadmap for Semiconductors. Chip designs will rarely be home grown-instead, they will be organized around elements the design team acquires from others, either from companies that specialize in developing so-called intellectual property or from the reuse of blocks previously developed within the same or another organization. This paper describes how the rising tide of Web-based tools and services augurs the next sea change in electronic design