Before revision: Note: A new term "Quality of Silicon" (QoS) is being promoted by the EDA industry in an attempt to measure the performance of backend EDA tools, like Xilinx ISE from Xilinx, or Synopsys from Cadence Design Systems in isolation from the human designer's own performance in the frontend design stage.
After revision: Note: A new term "Quality of Silicon" (QoS) is being promoted by the EDA industry in an attempt to measure the performance of backend EDA tools, like Xilinx ISE from Xilinx, or tools from Synopsys or Cadence Design Systems in isolation from the human designer's own performance in the frontend design stage.