Posts Tagged ‘Design Automation Conference’
Monday, May 14th, 2012
Why call this Thermocouple Thursday?
 For two reasons. First, because the rest of the days at DAC 2012 in San Francisco got alliterated:
* Super Sunday
* Marvelous Monday
* Terrible Tuesday
* Wicked Wednesday
And second, because “a thermocouple is a device consisting of two dissimilar metals joined at two points, the potential difference between the two junctions being a measure of their difference in temperature.”*
And if that doesn’t describe Thursday, June 7th, at DAC 2012 what does?
After all, nobody really sticks around for Thursday at DAC unless a) they’re presenting on that day, b) they’ve got a client and/or student presenting on that day, or c) they’re staying through the weekend to vacation in The City.
But people not sticking around for Thursday at DAC is just wrong, because Thursday is the thermocouple day that connects the two main parts of life in EDA.
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Tags: DAC 2012, Design Automation Conference
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Sunday, May 13th, 2012
DAC looms!
 If you do nothing else on Wednesday, June 6th, at the Design Automation Conference be sure to attend the second of the two keynotes.
Intel’s Brad Heaney will be talking about “designing a 22nm Intel Architecture Multi-CPU and CPU.” It’s got well over a billion transistors and would have only been the stuff of Sci-Fi dreams a brief 15 or 20 years ago.
After that, just like on Terrible Tuesday, you’ve got a wicked wheelbarrow full of different ways you could go, starting with the User Track. The Wednesday line-up in this well-received recent addition to the DAC schedule includes:
* Packaging & Automatic P&R, with speakers from Mentor Graphics, Samsung, and Intel
* Keynoter Q&A, with the morning’s IBM & Intel speakers fielding questions from the crowd
* Practical Formal Methods, with speakers from IBM, Oski, and Intel
If your interests, however, reside with the young more than the mega-organizations in the EDA ecosystem, Wednesday is your day to visit the ACM Sigda University Booth in the Exhibition Hall, where the “new EDA tools, EDA tools applications, design projects, and instructional materials” will be your guide to the future minds of this industry.
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Tags: ACM Sigda, Brad Heaney, DAC, Design Automation Conference, Duolos, EDAC Enterprise Licensing Conference, Gabe Moretti, IBM, Intel, Kathryn Kranen, Lucio Lanza, Mentor Graphics, North American SystemC Users Group Meeting, Oski, Paul McLellan, Red's Java House, Samsung, Tom Halfhill
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
DAC looms!
 And never more so than on Tuesday — especially this year, June 5th, when you’re going to have to make some terrible decisions about what to miss, and what not to miss.
First there’s the opening session in the morning when a boatload of awards are handed out, followed by the 2012 keynote. The Exhibition Hall won’t open until these things wrap up, so other than company meetings or company special-product announcement breakfasts, you should be able to be in the main theater at Moscone from 8:30 to 10:00 am or so.
Of course, worst case scenario: The opening session at DAC is always video-taped, so you could watch it at a later date after it’s uploaded to the DAC website but that’s hardly ideal.
This year’s main address will be delivered by ARM’s Mike Muller, “comparing the original ARM design of 1985 to those of today’s latest microprocessors … how far design has come and what EDA has contributed to enabling … systems, hardware, operating systems, and applications.” Then Muller plans to talk about 2020, how to get there, and what it will be like when we do. Conclusion? This stuff’s better heard in person than tape delayed. Go to the opening session, and plan not to regret it.
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Tags: ACM, Applied Micro, ARM, Atrenta, Brian Fuller, Cadence, CEDA, Chevy Volt, Cisco, DAC, Design Automation Conference, IPL Alliance, Jim Hogan, Jim Solomon, LSI, Mark Horowitz, McKormick & Kuletos', Mike Muller, PMC-Sierra, Realtek, STMicro, Synopsys, Xilinx, Yervant Zorian
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
DAC looms!
 It’s time to start examining the Conference Program and figure out how you’re going to spend your time in the first week of June when you’re attending the Design Automation Conference next month in San Francisco at Moscone Center.
Marvelous Monday …
On Monday June 4th at DAC there’s so much going on you really need to take some time to seriously consider how you’re going to schedule your day. So, first click here to see the jam-packed program, and then figure out what your priorities are.
Sessions or Exhibition Hall? You better work on this now, because if you suffer from sensory overload syndrome, you’ll never figure it out on the day of.
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Tags: Belle Wei, DAC, Design Automation Conference, Gary Smith, John Cooley, John Donovan, Karen Bartelson, Moscone Center, Rick Merritt, W Hotel
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Sunday, May 6th, 2012
DAC Looms!
 It’s time to start examining the Conference Program and figure out how you’re going to spend your time in the first week of June when you’re attending the Design Automation Conference next month in San Francisco at Moscone Center.
Super Sunday …
Sunday is never a Day of Rest for DAC attendees, and Sunday June 3, 2012 is no exception. First, there are 4 co-located conferences happening in Moscone Center on DAC Sunday:
* IWLS: International Workshop on Logic Synthesis
* SLIP: System Level Interconnect Prediction Workshop
* HOST: IEEE Internt’l Symposium on Hardware & Trust
* ESLsyn: Electronic System Level Synthesis Conference
There are also 7 DAC-related workshops:
* CMOS Design at 60 GHz & Beyond
* Moore than More Technologies
* EDA & Process Automation
* Bio-Design Automation
* Young Faculty at DAC
* System-level Design of Automotive Electronics & Software
* Computing in Heterogeneous, Autonomous ‘N’ Goal-oriented Environments
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Tags: DAC, Design Automation Conference, EDAC, ESLsyn, Gary Smith, HOST, IWLS, Lefty O'Doul's, Moscone Center, San Francsico, SLIP, Sunday Workshops
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
Because Pallab Chattejee went to upwards of 78 technical conferences last year, he probably knows a thing or two about the status of the industry today. It also helps that he’s a long-time IC design adviser, CTO of SiliconMap, a consultancy, and is ramping up a new online publishing presence, Media & Entertainment Technologies, with long-time tech guru Tets Maniwa.
 Among his many involvements, including the IEEE Nanotech Council and U.C. Berkeley’s Engineering Alumni Society, Pallab has been associated with the International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design for all of its 13 years.
He’s headed up most of the committees at one point or another, and this year is serving for a second time as General Chair, so it’s not a complete surprise that Pallab has been named an ISQED 2012 Fellow.
What is a surprise, is Pallab’s candid assessment of the messages that are often the stuff of conference keynote speeches – even those given at ISQED – particularly when those speeches are offered up by EDA vendors or foundries. (more…)
Tags: 20 nanometers, 20nm, DAC, Design Automation Conference, Design rule checks, DRC, E3, ELectronic Entertainment Expo, ISQED, ISQED Fellow, Media & Entertainment Technologies, NAB, National Association of Broadcasters, Pallab Chattejee, SID, SiliconMap, Society for Information Display, Symposium on SID, Tets Maniwa
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For two reasons. First, because the rest of the days at DAC 2012 in San Francisco got alliterated:
