DAC executive committee taking a break at last week's "Wintermeeting," held this year in Wickenburg, Arizona.The DAC executive committee convened last week for a two-day meeting to finalize the technical program. We call this the Wintermeeting, which by tradition is usually held at a destination chosen by the general chair. This year it was my turn and I selected a dude ranch in Wickenburg, Arizona. While the meeting serves the purpose of locking down all the final details for the conference... Read More
As I’ve often stated, DAC is very much a team effort. Way back in week 5 I introduced Chuck Alpert, who is vice chair of the conference. Among other things, this title means Chuck will chair DAC 53 in Austin in 2016. Not that he hasn’t been busy with DAC 52. Chuck worked very hard to put together this year’s conference matrix, basically the overall conference schedule. It was big job, handled with his usual energy and good cheer, familiar to all who know him. I asked Chuck to be guest blogger... Read More
I have to admit it, I am impressed. Actually “impressed” doesn’t really capture it. I’m awed. On Friday we had the DAC Technical Program Committee (TPC) meeting in Houston. 147 members of the TPC spent the day discussing the submitted papers. It was quite a scene: all of us in one large room, with each big table representing one subcommittee. By the end of the day in Houston, the TPC members had built a total of 27 sessions, with 6 papers each.DAC TPC reviewers at work in Houston.Let’s talk for... Read More
Delphi CTO Jeffrey Owens will deliver the Tuesday keynote. With my adopted hometown preparing for the Portland Auto Show, I thought it an opportune time to revisit automotive at DAC. Scanning the news releases, it seems that here in Portland the focus will be on things like horsepower, handling and of course design — the usual fare for an auto show. In contrast at DAC, we’ll be talking about the rapid increase in content and complexity that has made the development of automotive... Read More
Designer and IP track submissions are up 27% compared to 2014. This is an amazing success and we have to thank all the designer track and IP track subcommittee members for getting the word out and motivating their industry peers to submit in such numbers. Tallying it up, it appears we received the most submissions since we started the designer track back in 2010 (we called it the user track back then). Our strongest growth was in IP and embedded categories. These numbers are only part of the... Read More
At this point in my blogging/vlogging career I’m assuming I have an audience of thousands who hang on my every word. But the few of you left (okay, so this is tongue in cheek… I have in fact seen the number of YouTube views!) who have not seen my DAC TV interview with Brian Fuller below need to know that we are changing DAC exhibit hours and moving the evening receptions on Monday and Tuesday to the show floor. Whether or not you are paying attention, know we are changing the conference in... Read More
On Monday we had our marathon conference call to review all invited content – that is, special sessions in EDA, embedded, automotive, and security, as well as panels and tutorials. Wow! I was blown away and it seems we must have a record year for submitted content. I counted 27 submissions just for tutorials, a niche part of DAC (though an important one at that). There is a DAC record for embedded submissions, too. “It clearly is the blogging,” I told my colleagues on the... Read More
We are running on all cylinders working on the DAC conference program. Next week we have a three-hour conference call to review most of our invited content as well as panels, tutorials, workshops and collocated events. Early February is the Technical Program Committee Meeting in Houston, where we will finalize the technical conference program. All our TPC members are right now reviewing submitted papers. Did you know that submitted DAC papers go through a blind peer review? There’s no... Read More
Happy New Year! The good news is that one more weekend looms, maybe a useful window for recovery if your batteries are running low after hustling around during the holidays as I did. Packed roads, busy airports, standing in line, being impatient, getting angry… I admit wondering, as my seasonal spirit waned, why we all do this to ourselves. My destination was Germany, so I could spend Christmas with my family. And while traveling alone made it easy for me, I had plenty of opportunity to... Read More
When I started this blog back in June one of the first questions I got was from Daniel Payne, one of my favorite SemiWiki bloggers: “This year at DAC on Monday morning when the exhibits opened at 9 a.m. I saw for the very first time that attendees were coming down the escalators then making a U-turn and deciding to attend the sessions instead of the exhibits. Usually there is a line waiting to get into the exhibits, but not this year. Also, what happened to Free Monday on the exhibit... Read More
I’m just back from a few days in San Jose, which luckily is only a short flight away from Portland. After so many of these trips I've found that most of the time I'm surrounded by familiar faces and the one or two flustered employees that couldn’t catch their much more convenient corporate commuter flight. I have to admit the idea of bypassing airport security and to just showing my badge, grabbing a boarding pass and being on my way is pretty neat. Let’s not drool too... Read More
A few weeks ago I told you about the best kept secret at DAC: the fact that about 30% of our content at DAC is focused on embedded systems and software. This came as a surprise to a lot people and shortly afterwards we were contacted by Rich Nass who is the executive vice president and brand manager of embedded computing design at Open Systems Media and the former editorial director for ESC – the Embedded Systems Conference. Everybody familiar with embedded knows Rich. He was, after all,... Read More
Not only is the mainstream computing, wireless and consumer industries driving growth in EDA, but new, emerging markets are gaining ground. Embedded software is taking advantage of EDA solutions for ways to speed the development and integration of software and hardware. And the automotive, aerospace and transportation sectors are keenly interested in tools that automate the development of electronics—a crucial differentiator in these highly competitive markets. Which, of... Read More
At least here in the United States, with next week’s Thanksgiving holiday and Christmas decorations already appearing in stores, there’s a sense that vacation season is around the corner. In contrast, on the technical program committee, we’re gearing up for real work, which in many ways is just now beginning. The deadline for invited content to DAC was last week and now we are in full throttle reviewing the submissions for panels, tutorials, workshops, special sessions and... Read More
It was another week of travel though this time I stayed on schedule – no missed flights! I was in San Jose for several days during which I briefly crossed paths with two EDA stars. Their work suggests that the present and future of our industry is in good shape. And I was there to host a meeting for those exhibiting at DAC, which, if you’ll excuse the pun, will be an even better place to shine next year thanks to new exhibit hours.LinkedIn profile of Anika Raghuvanshi, ICCAD... Read More
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