At the keynote for ICCAD this morning, John Gustafson of AMD (where he is Chief Graphics Product Architect as well as a Fellow) talked about parallel algorithms. Like Gene Amdahl, whose law states that parallel algorithms are limited by the part that cannot be parallelized (if 10% is serial, then even if the other part takes place… Read More
Simulation: Expert Insights into Modeling Microcontrollers @ Renesas DevCon
“Simulation: Expert Insights into Modeling Microcontrollers” was the recent panel hot topic at Renesas DevCon2012, featuring Paolo Giustoof GM, Mark Ramseyerof Renesas, Marc Serughettiof Synopsys, Jay Yantchevof ASTC / VWorks, and Simon Davidmannof Imperas.
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The Auto Industry Speaks @ Renesas DevCon
This year’s Renesas DevCon in Orange County, CA kicked off yesterday with an impressive lineup of speakers, record attendance, and an increased focus on automotive.
“TheAuto Industry Speaks,” an Expert Panel organized by Martin Bakerof Renesas, featured:
- Yoichi Yano, RenesasExecutive VP and Member of the Board, who early
DAC: It’s the Last Week for Many Submissions
The deadline is coming up at the end of next week (technically on Monday October 29th for those of you who like real brinkmanship) for several aspects of DAC (not submission of papers for the conference itself) but most of the less academic-oriented things.
Proposals for:
- Special Sessions
- Tutorials
- Panel sessions (in the conference
IP-SoC 2012 Conference: don’t miss keynotes talk from Cadence, Synopsys, STMicroelectronics…
… Mentor Graphics, Design & Reuse or Gartner. The IP-SoC conference in Grenoble has been the very first 100% dedicated to Design IP, created by Gabriele Saucier 20 years ago, when “reuse” was more a concept than a reality within the design teams, and when Design IP was far to be a sustainable business.
Pr Gabriele Saucier had the… Read More
Kaufman Award Dinner at 50th DAC in Austin
In past years the Kaufman award, the most prestigious in EDA, has been announced around September and presented during a dinner in October or November in Silicon Valley. EDAC and CEDA, the sponsors of the award, have just announced that this time the award dinner will take place in Austin at the 50th DAC following the early Sunday … Read More
Hynix View on New, Emerging Memories
The recent (August) flash memory summit in Santa Clara had a session devoted to ReRAM as well as featuring prominently in the keynote address by Sung Wook Park of SK Hynix. The talk includes a summary of NAND’s well known scaling issues along with approaches to 3D NAND. It turns out that they are working on three different technologies:… Read More
ICCAD: 30 years
ICCAD is November 5th to 8th in the Hilton San Jose (downtown).
It is very off topic, but if you are British then November 5th is the rough equivalent of July 4th when there are fireworks displays all over the country. Britain is one of very few countries that transitioned from some sort of autocracy to a democracy without having a revolution.… Read More
Design Automation Conference 2013 Austin, Texas Call for Papers!
DAC’s technical program offers the best-in-class solutions that promise to advance Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Embedded Systems and Software (ESS). DAC 2013 is seeking submissions that deal with design technologies and algorithms, addressing all aspects of electronic design across several submission categories.… Read More
EDAC Reports Upbeat Q2 2012 Revenues
EDA revenues for Q2 2012 were up 10.8% compared to Q2 2011 as reported by EDAC today.
Increasing
- CAE
- IC Physical Design & Verification
- Semi IP
Flynn Was Right: How a 2003 Warning Foretold Today’s Architectural Pivot