The Road Ahead - Shared red bricks
70 REQUIREMENTS SUCH AS THOSE in the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) drive the electronic design automation (EDA) industry (see http://public.itrs.net) as well as other semiconductor supplier industries, such as lithography, front-end processing, and assembly and packaging. This new department will explore the semiconductor roadmap and its implications for EDA. In particular, future columns will attempt to answer three important questions: