The cost of designing IP

1. Average Salary of an engineer $70K - $120K Each for a minimum of 10 Engineers
   
2. Tool Licenses- free to a few million $
   
1. Simulator
2. Verification
3. Validation
4. Synthesis
5. DFT
6. Layout


3. Design Period 1 Year+
   

C and ESL

Basically A method of synthesizing C code..... On the surface it looks good as "any c programmer" can now "do Hardware" but are we at a stage where we can tolerate silicon bloatware? Todays tools are capable of experimenting with various implementation for a given C code..... But do they settle for a Local or A global minima?