Posts Tagged ‘Jim Hogan’
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
The Electronic System Design Alliance began life as the EDA Consortium over 25 years ago. Early last year, EDAC morphed into the ESD Alliance thanks to the efforts of many, not the least being ESD Alliance Executive Director Bob Smith, now in his third year serving in that role.
As currently I am mid-way through the process of speaking to the leadership of all of the member companies in the ESD Alliance, it was good to talk recently with Smith and discuss his vision for the future of the organization. His enthusiasm mirrors that of the many companies I have spoken with so far.
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Tags: ACM/SIGDA, Bob Smith, CELUG, Design Automation Conference, EDA Consortium, ESD Alliance, Flexera, Graham Bell, IEEE-CEDA, Jim Hogan, Julie Rogers, Larry Disenhof, License Management & Anti Piracy, Nanette Collins, Paul Cohen, San Jose State University, Sashi Subramanian, Sharon Hu, Stephanie Chou, Steve Pollock
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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, January 19th, 2017
At the ESD Alliance panel on the Cadence campus Wednesday night, it was Vista Ventures’ Jim Hogan who suggested the little open-source processor architecture called RISC-V will prove itself to be a plucky survivor when looming market realities hit 800-pound proprietary vendors like ARM and Intel. Hogan suggested RISC-V is positioned to survive that pending apocalypse just like “the mammals after the asteroid.”
Pretty dramatic stuff.
Hence it should not have been surprising, at the end of the 75-minute discussion on stage between Jim Hogan and Microsemi’s Ted Speers and SiFive’s Yunsup Lee, that I raised my hand and asked why Simon Segars was not in the room. After all, Simon Segars is both CEO of ARM and a key member of the Board of the Alliance that organized the Hogan-Speers-Lee program – a program where the emerging RISC-V movement was described as poised to upend the primacy of ARM etc.
Hogan responded to my question without answering: “Look, ARM is challenging by serving the low-cost processor market. License fees, royalty fees – that is what ARM wants for their low-power edge-based device. I think it was Simon, for example, who started talking to The Street about his economic strategy. It’s not really about what the best technology is, but about the economics. This is what gets the traction, and ARM will respond in an economic way.”
“Yes,” Ted Speers added, “and Intel and Imagination will also respond.”
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Tags: ARM, Dave Paterson, ESD Alliance, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Jim Hogan, John Hennessy, Linley Group, Microsemi, Olivier Bernard, Rick O'Connor, RISC-V, RISC-V Foundation, SiFive, Simon Segars, Stanford, Ted Speers, U.C. Berkeley, Vista Ventures, Yunsup Lee
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Thursday, January 5th, 2017
One of your New Year’s Resolutions should be to further understand the philosophy, technology, and implications of the RISC-V movement. And there will be no better way to follow through on that resolution than to attend the upcoming ESD Alliance discussion on the topic.
In a nod to the best in situational irony, the Alliance is hosting an evening event in Silicon Valley on January 18th specifically to discuss this open source processor architecture, which per some has the potential to turn ARM’s market dominance on its ear.
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Tags: ARM, BSD License, DAC, Dave Patterson, ESC Boston, ESD Alliance, Google, IoT Meetup, Jim Hogan, Krste Asanovic, MIT, Oracle, Rick O'Connor, RISC-V, RISC-V Foundation, SiFive, U.C. Berkeley, Yunsup Lee
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Thursday, September 11th, 2014
My father died in April 2001 after a long fight with cancer. He had led a good life of personal and professional integrity, and the family grieved his passing intensely. Later that year, just 5 months after my father died, the attacks happened on 9/11.
The enormity of those events and their aftermath really defy description, but I had a particular response that was quite odd. Suddenly, I felt that the grief my family had experienced earlier that year had been way out of proportion to our loss. After all, we knew my father was ill, we knew he had little time left, we had time to say goodbye. Those who lost loved ones on 9/11 did not have that luxury, and they had to comes to terms with a level of hatred that had savaged their entire existence.
Fast forward to July of 2006. The Design Automation Conference was in San Francisco for the first time in many years. I live in the Bay Area, was able to commute from home to DAC on public transportation, and was able to enjoy walking each morning from the Caltrain station at 4th and King to Moscone Center at 3rd and Howard.
On one of the days at DAC, I was moderating a panel on the Pavilion Stage in the Exhibit Hall and arrived in the area during the last few minutes of the previous panel. Jim Hogan was just wrapping up at the podium, as he was the moderator. After he finished and people in the audience began milling around, I stepped up onto the stage to prepare my own materials at the podium. Jim and I exchanged pleasantries and then he happened to look down at my shoes. Now I’m not claiming to be a fashionista, particularly in that hard-bitten world of EDA conferences, but what Jim said at that moment really caught me by surprise.
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Tags: 9/11, beautiful brutalism, DAC 2006, Jim Hogan, shoes
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
It’s just amazing that DAC has become so thoroughly a show about IP that there are two major parties happening in San Francisco in June that have IP in their name: HOT IP Party and Stars of IP Party.
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Tags: AdaptIP, ARM, Atrenta, Cadence, CAST, Certus, DAC 2014, Dassault Systemes, Denali, Design Automation Conference, HOT IP Party, IPextreme, Jim Hogan, Rambus, Semico, SFCASA, Sonics, Stars of IP Party, Synopsys, TrueCircuits, TSMC, Warren Savage
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