Dan is joined by Charles Shi, Vice President & Research Analyst for Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment at Needham & Company. Charles will be doing an opening keynote next week at the Design Automation Conference. He covers EDA as well as semiconductor equipment at Needham.
Dan explores why Charles is… Read More
The 38th Design Automation Conference is next week and this one is for the record books. Having been virtual the last two years, next week we will meet live once again. I think we may have all taken for granted the value of live events but now we know how important they are on both a professional and human level, absolutely.
“The… Read More
Dan and Mike are joined by EDA legend Joe Costello. Joe discusses his perspective on the state of the EDA industry and what opportunities and challenges lie ahead, He also gives a preview of the keynote he will present at the upcoming Design Automation Conference.
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in these… Read More
Dan and Mike are joined by Ambar Sarkar, the chair of the designer, IP and embedded tracks at DAC this year. Ambar talks about the breadth of these programs, including what topics are hot, along with some exciting new formats for presentation and interaction this year.
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As I mentioned in a previous post, the big drama at last year’s Design Automation Conference was the acquisition of the Electronic Systems Design Alliance (formerly EDAC) by SEMI, the owner of the SEMICON West Conference franchise. The plan is to add an ES Design West wing to the SEMICON West conference in San Francisco next year.… Read More
DAC is upon us again! The Design Automation Conference holds special meaning to me as it was the first technical conference I attended as a semiconductor professional, or professional anything for that matter. That was 33 years ago and I have not missed one since. This year my wife and I both will be walking the DAC floor and it would… Read More
Aldec tools and services have long been associated with FPGA designs. As FPGAs have evolved toward more RTL-based designs, the similarities between a modern FPGA verification flow and an ASIC verification flow often leave them looking virtually the same. … Read More
There’s a small art gallery near the office. It features a new set of paintings by a local artist every two weeks. As I walk by I tend to check out what’s hanging in there. Sometimes I turn up my nose at what I see – a bit too wacky, a bit too abstract, a bit too paint by numbers. Sometimes I walk in to take a closer look but leave the shop empty-handed… Read More
DAC is in San Francisco, of course, and perhaps you have a day or two to do explore the city. Guidebooks will tell you to visit most of these places but there are much better ways to see them than they typically recommend. Follow these instructions and pretend you are a local.
1. Ride a Cable Car. But don’t wait in line for 45 minutes at Union… Read More
If you’ve been following DAC general chair Anne Cirkel’s weekly blog, you know the conference program is now final. There’s much to suggest it will be a great DAC, including a record number of submissions in several content categories and a compelling lineup of keynoters. The week will start with an update on Google’s smart contact… Read More
