Jun 19, 2013
The only thing most people remember about Tuesdays at DAC are the parties. You’re a success if you attended at least two, less than a success if you only attended one, and guaranteed immortality if you attended more than three.
Jun 19, 2013
I’m very tired and a bit giddy as I write this post, late in the evening after the second day of exhibits at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Austin. Frankly, a lot of us EDA vendors were concerned about holding DAC in Austin for the first time. Of course there is a large electronics development community in Austin, but the first time in a new location for any conference is always a bit of a gamble since you never know what kind of response you’ll get.
Jun 19, 2013
DAC is off to a fast start and no one is talking about the numbers, they are talking about how many great things there are see and do here at the 50th DAC here in Austin, Texas and how packed the schedule is. But before we get to that, I have to say a word or two about Austin. The reason is that Austin has the slogan – keep Austin weird, which also happens to be the slogan for the city that I call my hometown – Portland, Oregon, which I have to say, is a lot weirder. Since I got here, I have seen nothing weird.
Jun 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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.
May 13, 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
May 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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
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