Accellera and PSS 3.0 at #61DAC

Accellera and PSS 3.0 at #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 09-03-2024 at 10:00 am

PSS at #61DAC min

Accellera invited me to attend their #61DAC panel discussion about the new Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) v3.0, and the formal press release was also just announced. The big idea with PSS is to enable seamless reuse of stimulus across simulation, emulation and post-silicon debug and prototyping.

Tom Fitzpatrick from Siemens… Read More


Keysight EDA and Engineering Lifecycle Management at #61DAC

Keysight EDA and Engineering Lifecycle Management at #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 08-29-2024 at 10:00 am

Keysight EDA at 61DAC min

Entering the exhibit area of DAC on the first floor I was immediately faced with the Keysight EDA booth, and it was even larger than either the Synopsys or Cadence booths. They had a complete schedule of partners presenting in their theatre that included: Microsoft Azure, Riscure, Fermi Labs, BAE Systems, Alphawave, Intel Foundry,… Read More


Circuit Simulation Update from Empyrean at #61DAC

Circuit Simulation Update from Empyrean at #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 08-13-2024 at 10:00 am

Empyrean SPICE min

A familiar face in EDA, Greg Lebsack met with me in the Empyrean booth at DAC this year on opening day to provide an update on what’s new. I first met Greg when he was at Tanner EDA, then Mentor and Siemens EDA, so he really knows our industry quite well. The company was a Silver level sponsor of DAC this year, and Empyrean offers tools for… Read More


Aniah and Electrical Rule Checking (ERC) #61DAC

Aniah and Electrical Rule Checking (ERC) #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 08-06-2024 at 10:00 am

Aniah #61DAC min

Visiting a new EDA vendor at #61DAC is always a treat, because much innovation comes from the start-up companies, instead of the established big four EDA companies. I met with Vincent Bligny, Founder and CEO of Aniah on Wednesday in their booth, to hear about what they are doing differently in EDA. Mr. Bligny has a background working… Read More


3D IC Design Ecosystem Panel at #61DAC

3D IC Design Ecosystem Panel at #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 08-05-2024 at 10:00 am

bits per joule min

At #61DAC our very own Daniel Nenni from SemiWiki moderated an informative panel discussion on the topic of 3D IC Design Ecosystem. Panelists included: Deepak Kulkarni – AMD, Lalitha Immaneni – Intel Foundry, Trupti Deshpande – Qualcomm, Rob Aitken – CHIPS, Puneet Gupta – UCLA, Dragomir Milojevic – imec. Each panelist had a brief… Read More


Easy-Logic and Functional ECOs at #61DAC

Easy-Logic and Functional ECOs at #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 08-01-2024 at 10:00 am

gtech min

I first visited Easy-Logic at DAC in 2023, so it was time to meet them again at #61DAC in San Francisco to find out what’s new this year. Steven Chen, VP Sales for North America and Asia met with me in their booth for an update briefing. Steven has been with Easy-Logic for six years now and earned an MBA from Baruch College in New York. This… Read More


Defacto Technologies and ARM, Joint SoC Flow at #61DAC

Defacto Technologies and ARM, Joint SoC Flow at #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 07-31-2024 at 10:00 am

arm defacto 61dac min

At #61DAC I stopped by the Defacto Technologies exhibit and talked with Chouki Aktouf, President and CEO, to find out what’s new in 2024. ARM and Defacto have a joint SoC design flow by using the Arm IP Explorer tool along with Defacto’s SoC compiler, which helps to quickly create your top-level RTL, IP-XACT and UPF files. This tool… Read More


AMIQ EDA Integrated Development Environment #61DAC

AMIQ EDA Integrated Development Environment #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 07-29-2024 at 10:00 am

AMIQ EDA min

I stopped by the AMIQ EDA booth at DAC to get an update from Tom Anderson about their Integrated Development Environment (IDE), aimed at helping design and verification engineers save time. In my early IC design days we used either vi or emacs and were happy with having a somewhat smart text editor. With an IDE you get a whole new way … Read More


Perforce IP and Design Data Management #61DAC

Perforce IP and Design Data Management #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 07-24-2024 at 10:00 am

Helix IPLM, Helix Core min

I recall first blogging about Helix IPLM (formerly Methodics IPLM) at DAC in 2012, then Perforce acquired the company in July 2020, so I stopped by the Perforce booth this year at DAC to get an update from Martin Hall, Principal Solutions Engineer at Perforce. Martin’s background includes working at Dassault Systemes, Synchronicity,… Read More


Blue Cheetah Advancing Chiplet Interconnectivity #61DAC

Blue Cheetah Advancing Chiplet Interconnectivity #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 07-18-2024 at 10:00 am

blue cheetah 61dac min

At #61DAC, I love it when an exhibitor booth uses a descriptive tagline to explain what they do, like when the Blue Cheetah booth displayed Advancing Chiplet Interconnectivity. Immediately, I knew that they were an IP provider focusing on chiplets. I learned what sets them apart is how customizable their IP is to support specific… Read More