HDL Designer Series Increasing Engineering Efficiency at Alcatel

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HDL Designer Series:
Increasing Engineering Efficiency at Alcatel
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Tracing its inception back to
1898, Alcatel today is an
extraordinary company. With
55,000 employees in 130 countries,
Alcatel provides communications
solutions to telecommunication
carriers, Internet service providers
and enterprises for delivery of
voice, data and video applications
to their customers or to their
employees. Alcatel leverages its
leading position in fixed and
mobile broadband networks, applications
and services to bring value
to its customers in the framework
of a broadband world. Alcatel takes
research and development seriously,
having invested approximately
US$2.4B (or 13.5% of total
income revenue) in R&D in 2002.
Thierry Pfirsch, Competency
Manager of Hardware Design Tools
for Alcatel worldwide, has the
monumental task of forging a
single design methodology for
hundreds of hardware design engineers
employed at the $15B
company. A critical step towards
defining a unified design methodology
is to standardize and integrate
software tools wherever
possible. Standardizing on software
tools, however, is only the first step
in the process. Defining a design
methodology requires determining
which tools to use for each aspect
of the design process, along with
building the appropriate links
between these tools.
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