Posts Tagged ‘ICCAD’
Thursday, July 28th, 2016
A number of conferences important to EDA and IP are coming up over the next 12 months and currently looking for content. If you have an industry-relevant topic you’d like to talk about, the organizers of some of these conferences need to hear from you soon. Various deadlines are looming, most over the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, it’s interesting to consider that one of the most thrill- for-your-buck conferences on the list is Black Hat USA 2016 and Synopsys’ co-located CodenomiCON, both promising to teach you everything you need to know or are allowed to know about cybersecurity. Synopsys’ involvement in Black Hat may validate a comment overheard recently: ‘Synopsys is no longer really an EDA company. They’ve become a software integrity company.’
Also interesting, DVCon in San Jose and Mobile World in Barcelona in 2017 are on the exact same days. Perhaps there’s no overlap in the attendee population. But most interesting on the list, the sheer scale of the China International Modern Industry & Intelligent Equipment Exhibition with 500+ exhibitors, over 40,000 attendees, and more topics that you can possibly imagine.
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Tags: 3D ASIP, 3DExperience Forum, ARC Processor Summit, AWR Design Forum, Black Hat USA, DATE, Design Automation Conference, DVCon U.S., Embedded Systems Conference, European Innovation Day, Flash Memory Summit, Hot Chips, ICCAD, IEDM, IEEE Semiconductor Interface Specialists Conference, IEEE SFBA Nanotechnology Council, ISSCC, MIPI DevCon, Mobile World Congress
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Thursday, July 14th, 2016
Intel’s Shishpal Rawat has been Chair of Accellera for 6 years and is currently serving as President of CEDA, IEEE’s Council on Electronic Design Automation. In previous discussions, Rawat has insisted that his leadership is not what makes these organizations work. Only the enthusiastic efforts of the many members guarantee that both Accellera and CEDA continue to shape ideas, standards, and forward progress within design automation and its adjacent technologies.
Two years ago, I enjoyed a lengthy interview with Rawat about all of this, described here. This year, I’ve chatted with Rawat at DVCon in San Jose in March, and again by phone just prior to DAC in June. During the phone call, Rawat focused on CEDA’s activities at DAC in Austin. He told me the upcoming Sunday night panel, set to be moderated by SRC’s Bill Joyner on June 5th, was a new and very exciting addition to the DAC program.
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Tags: Accellera, CEDA, Council on Electronic Design Automation, DAC, DAC Young Faculty Workshop, DATE, Design Automation Conference, DVCon, ICCAD, IEEE
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Thursday, May 19th, 2016
The spirit of Marie R. Pistilli will be writ large at the Design Automation Conference in Austin in June, because the woman who is receiving this year’s MRP Women in Engineering Achievement Award embodies everything that Marie admired in a technologist:
Intelligence. Courage. Articulate leadership. Powerful work ethic. Technical contribution. A track record of mentoring women in a field that has been incredibly resistant to people who are different.
Yep, Dr. Soha Hassoun, Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University, has all the strengths of character that Marie admired, but there’s more: Prof. Hassoun is also well-spoken, funny, charming, and beautiful.
Just icing on the cake and not part of the reason Prof. Hassoun deserves the award, but all characteristics that Marie would have admired as well, and did admire – particularly as Hassoun is a permanent member of the DAC Family: She was General Chair of DAC in 2013, the conference being one of Marie’s deepest passions.
Indeed the greatest honor that could be brought to the memory of the remarkable Marie Pistilli is to select the equally remarkable Soha Hassoun as standard-bearer for outstanding achievement in EDA – woman or man – at the first DAC after Marie’s tragic passing last November.
Kudos to the committee for selecting Dr. Hassoun. Well done!
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Tags: Design Automation Conference, Dr. Soha Hassoun, ICCAD, Marie Pistilli, Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award, Tufts University, University of Washington
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
Sometimes shocking news arrives quietly, like fog over the Bay. In the very first sentence of his glamorous November 3rd keynote at ICCAD in Silicon Valley, Bosch VP of Engineering Peter van Staa bluntly told his audience that EDA would “probably not” help solve the problems related to electronic designs for the cars of the future. He then spent the next 45 minutes explaining instead how Bosch would.
“Bosch is unique,” van Staa said. With 42,000 employees and 4.5 billion euros spent in 2013 alone for R&D across multiple silos – energy and building technologies, consumer goods, industrial controls, and mobile “solutions” [anything driven by an engine being a particular focus] – the Stuttgart-based company is spewing out “an invention every 25 minutes.” [Can any EDA company make such a claim?]
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Tags: autonomous vehicles, Bosch, EDA, Google, ICCAD, Peter van Staa, Robert Bosch Center for Power Electronics, self-driving cars
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Thursday, November 13th, 2014
Dreary sentiments notwithstanding from several panelists at an ICCAD evening session on November 2nd in San Jose, SRC’s Dr. Bill Joyner espoused optimism and energy for the future of EDA, even if said future doesn’t include the venerated Moore’s Law stretching off into infinity forever.
As moderator, Joyner convened the panel, “Moore’s Law is dying, EDA to the rescue!”, and turned over the podium straightaway to University of Pittsburgh’s Dr. Alex Jones for the first 20 minutes, which allowed the professor to report out on a 3-year Computing Community Consortium effort, just completed, to examine and exhume EDA from the doldrums.
The CCC’s group of 50+ academic and industry leaders have been meeting since 2012 at a series of SIGDA/CCC-funded workshops hoping to impact the future by nudging industry and academia into more productive avenues of research and development in design automation.
The report the committee published, “Workshops on Extreme Scale Design Automation (ESDA) Challenges and Opportunities for 2025 and Beyond”, was available in paper form at the back of the room during the ICCAD panel and has subsequently proved to be great reading, and fodder for a future blog. But this blog is a thumbnail sketch of the November 2nd discussion, so please read on.
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Tags: ACM Sigda, Computing Community Consortium, Dr. Alex Jones, Dr. Jacob White, Dr. Leon Stok, Dr. Luigi Capodieci, Dr. Patrick Groeneveld, Dr. Todd Austin, Dr. William Joyner, EDaaS, GlobalFoundries, IBM, ICCAD, MIT, SRC, Synopsys, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh
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Thursday, August 28th, 2014
With the advent of September, the fall conference season begins. Here are some upcoming meetings you may want to attend.
* DesignCon China – September 2-5 – Shenzhen
Last year close to 13,000 attended ICC-China. Expect even more to attend this year.
* Mentor Graphics Forum – September 3 & 5 – Shanghai & Beijing
Keynote will be given by Mentor CEO Dr. Wally Rhines, followed by President of ARM Greater China Allen Wu talking about the next 10 billion chips to be manufactured in China.
* IDF14: Intel Developers Forum – September 9-11 – San Francisco
Intel CEO Brain Krzanich will give opening keynote, followed by lots of talk about the IoT.
* PCB West 2014 – September 9-11 – Santa Clara
The most important conference of the year for board designers.
* Mentor U2U Automotive – September 10 – Dearborn
The debut of a new Mentor User2User event focusing on one of Mentor’s favorite core competencies.
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Tags: ARM TechCon, DesignCon, DVCon, ICC-China, ICCAD, IDF14, MemCon, Mentor U2U, PCB West, SNUG, TSMC OIP
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Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Okay, summer’s over, September has arrived, and it’s time to figure out where you’re going to go over the next few months, conference wise. Some events are imminent, but others are a ways out, giving you time to think about registering and attending. Some events are vendor neutral, while others are vendor specific, which doesn’t preclude a chance to learn stuff. Although this list is lengthy, it isn’t comprehensive.
* ITC 2013
International Test Conference
Anaheim – September 8-12
* IDF 2013
Intel Developers Forum
San Francisco – September 10-12
* SNUG Taiwan
Hsinchu – September 10-11
* CDNLive China 2013
Beijing – September 10
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Tags: ARM TechCon, CDNLive, Electronic Systems for Motor Vehicles, Embedded Linux Conference Eruope, Embedded Vision Summit, ICCAD, IDF, IEDM, IESF Automotive, ITC, Jasper User Group Meeting, Linley Processor Conference, PCB West, SAME Forum, SNUG, SOC Conference
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
If you are looking for an opportunity to express your satisfaction with a colleague’s contributions to the world you work in, two outstanding chances currently present themselves. But take care: The deadlines for submitting your nominations quickly approach.
First, Accellera Systems Initiative [a.k.a. Accellera] has set January 18th as the deadline for submitting nominations for its 2013 Technical Excellence Award. Per the organization: “The Award recognizes outstanding contributions in the creation of EDA and IP standards [which are then contributed to the IEEE Standards Association] by a member of an Accellera technical committee.
“Any individual who is a member of an Accellera technical committee is eligible to receive the award, which will be presented at Accellera Systems Initiative Day during DVCon 2013 next February in San Jose. Candidates may be nominated by the industry at large and are endorsed by Accellera committee members. To nominate an individual, visit Accellera.org.”
If you want to do something really dramatic, however, the EDA Consortium is currently accepting nominations for its annual EDAC/CEDA-sponsored Phil Kaufman Award, which these organizations frequently refer to as the Noble Prize of EDA.
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Tags: Accellera Systems Initiative, Accellera Technical Excellence Award, CEDA, DAC, EDAC, ICCAD, IEEE Standards Association, Kaufman Aard
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
As Labor Day Weekend comes to a close, summer is officially over. Now it’s time to look out across the next 4 months and figure out how you’re going to spend your conference travel budget. Here’s just a small sampling of the many excellent options available to you.
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* IMAPS: International Symposium on Microelectronics
September 9-13
San Diego Convention Center
* CICC: Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
September 9-12
Double Tree Hotel, San Jose
* HPEC: High Performance Extreme Computing Conference
September 10-12
Westin Hotel, Waltham
* IDC: Intel Developers Conference
September 11-13
Moscone Center, San Francisco
* Design East: The Center of the Engineering Universe
September 17-20
Hynes Center, Boston
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Tags: CICC, CPCW, Design East, EDAC, EVS, HPEC, ICCAD, IDC, IEDM, IMAPS, ISoCC, ITC, IWLPC, PCB West, SAME
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