Archive for September, 2017
Thursday, September 28th, 2017
Sage Design Automation offers iDRM – integrated design rule management – a “true design rule compiler that enables quick graphical capturing of design rules and uses them as executable expressions for Specification, Communication, Validation, DRC, Analysis, Deck validation and coverage, and DRC deck generation.”
But this is not about Sage, it’s about how Sage fits into an evolving industry from the point of view of Raul Camposano, EDA veteran, former CTO at Synopsys, and currently CEO at Sage. Like so many serving in leadership roles in the industry, Dr. Camposano is a man of good cheer and an optimistic observer.
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Tags: Dan Nenni, DRC decks, ESD Alliance, Giovanni De Micheli, IoT, Kurt Keutzer, Mead Conway, Mentor Graphics, Moore's Law, Raul Camposano, Sage, Silicon Catalyst, Synopsys, TSMC
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Thursday, September 14th, 2017
In a unique new partnership between the ESD Alliance and San Jose State University, SJSU alum and legendary EDA VC Jim Hogan will be speaking on campus this coming Wednesday evening, September 20th, at 7:00 pm.
Hogan’s topic is revolutionary, the Cognitive Era, and the official message behind his talk is all things bright and beautiful:
“Cognitive science is a diverse field which is unified and motivated by a single basic inquiry: How does my education, career and life change in the Cognitive Era? How do people, animals or computers ‘think,’ act and learn? To understand the mind and brain, cognitive science brings together methods and discoveries from neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, philosophy and data/computer science.”
The unofficial message, however, ain’t so cheery. That’s because we already know how people think, act and learn. They do it all around us all the time, and so do we. We don’t need the sciences of neurology, psychology, linguology, philology, or digital-ology to explain it to us.
What we do need is for those disciplines to protect us from all that science and engineering has produced, the stuff that’s now overwhelming our sense of wholeness and health, sanity and serenity.
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Tags: Cognitive Era, ESD Alliance, Jim Hogan, San Jose State University
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Thursday, September 7th, 2017
Talking to Dean Drako is probably a little like talking to Elon Musk: Both men have their fingers in multiple pies. In Drako’s case, and apropos to semiconductor design, one pie includes the IP and EDA industries.
Dean Drako founded IC Manage in 2003, a company whose products are targeted at IC designers who need help coordinating their efforts, integrating third-party IP into their design equation, and accelerating design. Interestingly, at the same time Drako was founding IC Manage, he was also founding Barracuda Networks, and ran both companies simultaneously for a number of years.
Today 14 years later, Drako still serves as President and CEO of IC Manage, but is ‘only’ on the board of Barracuda. Lest you think his plate is not full enough, however, he’s also currently President and CEO of Eagle Eye Networks.
Prior to our phone call last week, I researched Drako on Wikipedia: “Drako has written a number of articles on Open Source, Big Data, and SoC design. He is a frequently invited speaker on the topic of entrepreneurship [and] is a holder of 27 patents, including patents in network security, network protocols, digital circuits, software, biochemical processes, and sporting equipment.”
Yeah, pretty much just like talking to Elon Musk.
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Tags: Apple, Barracuda Networks, Cadence, Dassault, Dean Drako, Design Acceleration, Drako Motors, Eagle Eye Networks, EDAC, ESD Alliance, IC Manage, MatrixOne, NVIDIA, Shiv Sikand, Synchronicity
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