Each year, around this time, the electronic design industry and academia meticulously prepare to showcase the latest research and technologies at the Design Automation Conference. For the casual attendee, after a few years the difference between the conferences of years past begins to dim. If you are one of them, allow me to dispel this notion and invite you to look at what is different this year.
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(Pallab's Place) At the end of July, in San Francisco, is the 46th Design Automation Conference (DAC). For the past couple of decades, the show has been dominated by its exhibit floor and the display of new EDA tools and IP. Concurrent with this large exhibit floor, has been the on-going technical conference composed of papers, panels, keynotes and workshops. The harsh worldwide economy and the cost of chip development at leading edge process nodes, has impacted the viability for a single, once a year gathering of the industry as the primary method of introducing new and improved tools to the world wide audience. This is now a continuing task, that is increasingly taking place on a direct channel.
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DAC is still a big deal for our industry. It brings together researchers, EDA vendors and users to share information and ideas. I recently had the pleasure of talking to Chris Kappler, a founder of a small startup that will be at DAC for the first time this year.
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(Paul McLellan) The design automation conference (DAC) is later this month in San Francisco. Trade shows in general are probably gradually dying. I doubt we’ll be going to them in ten years time. But rumors of their death are somewhat exaggerated. DAC will probably be in San Francisco longer than the Chronicle.
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