Revisiting the EDA PYRAMID

摘要

For some reason, the pyramid has become ubiquitous in market research. Maybe it's just an electronics industry thing, but it keeps popping up every time someone wants to classify the market into different areas. One that's become common on the PCB side of the fence is Gartner Dataquest's FPGA/PCB tool user pyramid. It classifies designers as power users, upper and lower mainstream, and later adopters. Problem is, most designers consider themselves power users because of the challenges they face in designing their PCBs, particularly when the other end of the spectrum is known as the late adopter (also known as "laggard"), which is not a term many want to be associated with.