For the keynote speaker this year they invited Shankar Krishnamoorthy from Synopsys to talk about, " Fusion: The Dawn of the Hyper Convergence Era in EDA ". I was able to review his presentation to better understand the challenges and EDA approach that Synopsys has undertaken. Before I delve into EDA tools, let me first take a step back and review what's happened in the datacenter recently, where three mostly separate technologies have morphed into a single, more optimized system (aka hyperconvergence ): So a hyper-converged infrastructure ( HCI ) uses software and virtualized elements running on commercial, off-the-shelf servers to improve performance and enable easier scaling. In the traditional datacenter server the networking could come from Cisco, the compute by HP and storage by EMC, but the setup and maintenance was complex, a bit inefficient and scaling was brute force.