Jun 18, 2013
Power continues to be the big issue at this year’s DAC, and it’s one of the primary focal points for announcements at this year’s conference in Austin, Texas.
Jasper Design, for example, just added power awareness to its formal verification tools. Formal is effective in routing out very specific design problems rather than verifying an entire SoC or even a block. Oz Levia, vice president of marketing at the company, explained that the goal is to take RTL and infuse it with power structure sequences, insert buffers and then extract assertions to verify the power sequencing is correct.
Jun 18, 2013
The last day of the Exhibit Hall portion of DAC always arrives with a certain sensibility. Over the course of the 3 days, the place has become something between Our Town and a small college campus, and now with graduation it’s not clear when everyone will be together again. Yet the next phase of life beckons with all of its possibilities and trepidations, and people have to move on.
Jun 18, 2013
The 50th annual Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Austin Texas is a landmark event. It is remarkable to think that engineers have been using computer-aided design for electronic systems for more than half a century now. In honor of DAC’s 50th anniversary, there is a small museum in the front of the show with memorabilia (pronounced “swag”) spanning the five-decade history of the conference.
Jun 18, 2013
Network World - Austin, Texas -- The Design Automation Conference (DAC) held here this week celebrated its 50th anniversary, prompting the industry and academic community that poured so much energy into chip, software and hardware design to both take a look back and to predict what the future may hold.
May 12, 2013
Surely EDA is a serious-minded industry, particularly when it comes to ramping up for the annual Design Automation Conference where it’s all work and no play. Nonetheless, sometimes it just has to be okay to relax a little and hence the spirit of this blog.
Full Article - Peggy Aycinena, EDACafe
May 12, 2013
Wednesday night, at the outset of the EDAC Jim Hogan/Joe Costello event, the DAC 2013 General Chair, Synopsys’ Yervant Zorian, took the stage to present a plethora of reasons why you should be coming to DAC in Austin in June.
Full Article - Peggy Aycinena, EDACafe
May 12, 2013
DAC 2013 has added EDA maven Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Freescale Semiconductor’s recently installed CEO Gregg Lowe to its line-up of keynote speakers in Austin, this June.
Full Article - Paul Dempsey, Tech Design Forum
May 12, 2013
Jerry Philippe used to work for me at Compass and then very briefly we worked together at VaST. Today he works for Calypto in Austin. And it is the Austin part that is important because Jerry knows where the places are in any city to get good food and drink but Austin is his home.
Full Article - Paul McLellan, SemiWiki
May 12, 2013
This year for the first time the Thursday of DAC is tranining day. So that would be June 6th in Austin, of course. There are four tracks of training focused on SystemC, ARM Cortex and two on SystemVerilog, all areas of increasing use in SoC design, especially in mobile.
Full Article - Paul McLellan, SemiWiki
Apr 28, 2013
The Embedded Systems and Software strand at DAC 2013 accounts for more than 35% of the overall technical program. And so it should. The methodological collision between the software and the hardware worlds needs to become an alignment.
Full Article - Paul Dempsey, Tech Design Forum
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