Presenters took a trip down memory lane at DAC this year by having a panel discussion on HLS (High Level Synthesis) spanning from 1974 to 2020, and that time period aligns with when I first graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1978, starting chip design at Intel, then later transitioning into EDA companies by 1986. Marilyn Wolf from the University of Nebraska organized the panel, but then at the last minute had Yuan Xie from UCSB moderate. Using Zoom for the live panel had a few glitches, but Yuan kept things moving when a presenter sporadicly disappeared.
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