I’ve been helping get booths set up at DAC in Moscone for the last couple of days. Atrenta’s booth shows their new branding that I talked about last week. Now you can see what they are doing in this picture of their booth. As I sort of guessed they are leading with the Spyglass name. The booth says everywhere “Spyglass… Read More
Author: Paul McLellan
DAC: Advice for Out-of-towners
I blogged several times over the last few weeks about places in San Francisco other than DAC at the Moscone Center. Since they are now spread all over the site it is not so easy to find them. So here they are again all in one place.
Places to eat and drink near the Moscone center
DAC: there’s an App for that
Bill Deegan has produced a new version of his iPhone DAC app for this years conference. You can download it for free from the Apple App Store here. It is basically a mobile version of the DAC conference brochure with schedules for the various events (which it can add to your calendar if you decide you are interested) and the floorplan… Read More
EDAC emerging companies, Hogan evening
This evening at Silicon Valley Bank was the first of what is planned to be a series about EDA startups. Apparently the seed of the idea was planted by Dan Nenni with Jim Hogan and Steve Pollock and the EDAC Emerging Companies committee ran with it.… Read More
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends
Every year or so Mary Meeker (at Kleiner-Perkins) does a big presentation on internet trends. Since the internet in general and mobile in particular is a big driver for the semiconductor industry, this report is a treasure trove of useful data and interesting facts.
For example, this graph shows the adoption rate of iPods, iPhones… Read More
SpyGlass…the Mystery
Atrenta have put out a mysterious press release, a sort of teaser for what they are up to at DAC.
The first part is that they have an interview program at their booth (#2230) on the show floor where customers, partners and investors will talk about SpyGlass. Current speakers are:
- Jack Browne (Sonics)
- Jim Hogan (private investor)
- Charlie
Oasys at DAC: Right Here, Right Now
What is Oasys up to this year? For the last three years they have only had videos outside of their demo suite. The first year was a rock video, featuring Joe Costello (chairman off the board) and the executive management. The second year was parodies of the Mac vs PC ads with no prizes for guessing which one Oasys was. And last year was … Read More
Why does AT&T Fear OTT?
OTT stands for “over the top”. But in the telecom sense it does not mean outrageous, it means providing a service using the data network that competes with some service that the carrier offers and uses as a revenue stream. The most obvious of these is running Skype and so not making a voice call but perhaps the biggest threat… Read More
Jasper at DAC: ARM, Broadcom, Nvidia, ST
At DAC (next week, in case you have been under a rock for the last few months) Jasper has four of their customers presenting. Of course they are also presenting themselves making a total of 5 seminars.
nVidia is presenting on Sequential Equivalency Checking for Power Optimization with JasperGold Apps. It is on Monday at 11am, Tuesday… Read More
Partitioning Pavilion Panel
I don’t think it can be a surprise to anyone reading this that designs have been getting larger. Someone called Moore said something about it decades ago, or so I heard. Designs are so large that they need to be partitioned into smaller parts. The two main motivations for this are that some design tools, especially place &… Read More
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