Attendance at DAC is up across the board. Not surprisingly, with San Francisco being so close to silicon valley, the biggest increase was in people coming to see the exhibits.… Read More
DAC Attendance up
2024 Outlook with Ben Packman of PQShieldBen Packman, Senior Vice President at PQShield, leads…Read More
Fault Sim on Multi-Core Arm Platform in China. Innovation in VerificationHow much can running on a multi-core (Arm)…Read More
Schematic, IC Layout, Clock and Timing Closure from ICScape
Before this DAC I had never even heard of ICScape, so on Monday and Wednesday I visited their booth to find out their story.
Steve Yang, Ph.D. (Co-founder and President), Ravi Ravikumar (Marketing)
ICScape was founded in 2005 in Santa Clara by Steve Yang (Circuit Design engineer for microprocessor, Synopsys) and Jason Xing (Sun… Read More
Fast Monte Carlo and Analog Fast SPICE
Britto Vincent of ProPlus Design Solutions met with me at DAC on Monday morning to talk about Design For Yield (DFY) and Analog Fast SPICE.
In 2011 ProPlus announced DFY tools where the technology came from IBM, it provides fast Monte Carlo results up to 3 sigma, then added NanoSpice for faster simulation results. Similar in approach… Read More
How many languages an Engineer should speak?
I speak VHDL and SystemC, others speak Verilog and SystemVerilog … what do you speak?
Before getting into the core of the topic let me give you some round figures, engineers love numbers. Julian Lonsdale “European Sales Manager at Aldec” informed me at the Xfest Munich last month that Aldec carried out a survey to evaluate the usage… Read More
President Obama at DAC 2012
Okay, President Obama didn’t actually stop at DAC but he did do a drive by. I happened to be stepping out for some much needed fresh air and there goes his speeding motorcade. It was quite a sight actually, with all of the motorcycles, SUVs, a SWAT vehicle and even a paramedic rig (my son the Fireman drives one of those). The president … Read More
Partitioning Panel
I moderated a panel on partitioning today and I have to say that I learned some things. The panelists were Jonathan DeMent from IBM, Santosh Santosh from NVIDIA and Hao Nham of eSilicon. Considering the different types of designs being done their approach to partitioning and the reasons for doing so were very similar.
When you first… Read More
Collaboration at 28nm, 20nm and 14nm
Wednesday morning I attended a panel discussion with: ARM, IBM, Cadence, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung.
The panelists all sang the same song of collaboration between EDA, IP and Foundry to enable 28nm, 20nm and even 14nm.… Read More
Physical IP Not From ARM or Synopsys
ARM and Synopsys are well-known physical IP companies however at DAC today I met with a lesser-known company named DXCORR that has some unique offerings for cache, multi-port memory and standard cell kicker libraries. I met with:… Read More
Belle Wei Receives Marie Pistilli Award and is Interviewed
Today at DAC Belle Wei received the Marie Pistilli Award, presented to her by Patrick Groeneveld the DAC chair (and flowers from DAC via Chi-Foon Chan, now co-ceo of Synopsys). She was then interviewed by Daya Nadamuni.
Her father was a military general in China and in 1949 in the revolution her family fled to Taiwan where she was born.… Read More
DAC 2012 – Sunday Night Kick Off
I arrived to a sunny San Francisco this afternoon, checked into my hotel then visited Moscone Center to pick up my Independent Media credentials. On the walk over I passed by Yerba Buena Gardens.… Read More
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