DAC 2010 Blog Coverage Roundup

Here is my roundup of blog posts about the 2010 Design Automation Conference. You can also follow the #47DAC hashtag on twitter for breaking announcements during the conference. Last year’s roundup is available a DAC 2009 Blog Coverage Roundup.

Original intro: If you write a blog post that reviews an event, a day, or DAC 2010 as a whole with some substantive commentary before the end of July I will include a link to it. Please leave a comment to let me know if I have overlooked or incorrectly categorized anything.

Preparing For 2010 Design Automation Conference

• Gary Smith “What to See at DAC 2010” (PDF)
• John Busco “Vendors to See, Vendors to Overlook”
• John Cooley “My Cheesy Must See List For DAC 2010“
• Gabe Moretti “Gabe’s DAC 2010 Preview“
• Brian Bailey “Brian Bailey’s Must See List For DAC 2010“
• John Busco “Pre-DAC EDA Gossip and ‘User Evaluations’“
• Bill Murray “EDA Technologies to Watch Out for at DAC 2010” (PDF Reliquary h/t Jasper)
• Daniel Payne “What I Am Seeing at DAC 2010“
• Harry Gries “Where in DAC is Harry the ASIC Guy?“
• Ed Sperling “Extension Media Road to DAC 2010 Videos“
• Karen Bartleson “Conversation Central Back at DAC 2010 and On-Line”
  • “Synopsys Conversation Central Schedule“
  • www.blogtalkradio.com/synopsys
• JL Gray “My Personal Must-See List for DAC 2010“
• Anne-Francoise Pele “EDA Design Line What’s New List for DAC 201o“
• Srinivasan Venkataramanan “Pre-DAC Round-Up of Verification Technologies“
• OVM “OVM at DAC 2010”
  • Very interesting lineup of talks. If these practical problem-focused sessions can’t make the regular program DAC may slip further into a purely academic  conference.

Sunday Events

Note: I am worried that the default DAC website links will break in less than a year, they are tied to the top level DAC site not a DAC 2010 encoding. If anyone knows the permalinks for the DAC sessions please let me know. If you look at the DAC 2009 Blog Roundup the 2009 DAC sessions had a year encoded in the URL and they all still work.

Update: https://dac.com/content/47th-dac is now the home for the content

• Design For Manufacturability Coalition Workshop (includes links to presentations)
  • Wilbur Luo “DAC DFM Coalition – Do You Work On Sunday Afternoons?“
• DAC 2010 Kickoff Reception
  • Richard Goering “Gary Smith at DAC: SOC Costs Will Come Down“
  • Richard Goering “Cost Reduction is the Real SLD Value“
  • Peggy Aycinena has an acoustic EDA Podcast 0042-acousticeda-13june10.mp3
• Sunday Recap
  • Grant Martin “Let us Compare Mythologies“
  • Joe Hupcey “Snapshots of Day 0 at DAC“

Monday Events

• Keynote: From Contract to Collaboration: Delivering a New Approach to Foundry
  • Richard Goering “GlobalFoundries CEO Calls For New Foundry Model“
• “Gary Smith EDA:  Trends and What’s Hot at DAC”
  • Mike Sottak “Gary Smith on What’s Hot“
  • Jason Andrews “What’s The Best Way To Reduce SoC Development Costs?”
• Monday Recap
  • Grant Martin “Be Careful Where You Show Up“
  • Dennis Brophy “Day 1: An Ode To An Old Friend (Denali Finale)“

Tuesday Events

• Management Day
  • Ron Wilson “Heard at DAC:  How To Organize a Global Design Team“
  • Richard Goering “SoC Design Managers Cite IP Integration Challenges“
  • Richard Goering “What Changes When SoCs Move To 40 nm“
• Panel “Is the FPGA  Tool Opportunity an Oasis or a Mirage?”
  • Mike Sottak “Specialized FPGA tools needed to keep up with size and complexity“
• Panel:  Silicon Realization Luncheon
  • Richard Goering “Users, Partners Outline Mixed-Signal Silicon Realization Challenges“
• Tuesday User Track Poster Session
  • Aveek Sarkar “From User Track DAC 2010“
• Birds of a Feather:  MEMS@DAC
  • Jim Hogan “MEMS @ DAC 2010: Ready to Cross the Chasm“
• Tuesday Recap
  • Grant Martin “The Return of the Platform“

Wednesday Events

• Keynote: Echoes of DACs Past: From Prediction to Realization, and Watts Next?
  • Jack Rosenberger “The Future of Electronic Design Automation, According to IBM’s Bernie Meyerson”
  • Richard Goering “DAC Keynote 2: Why Cloud Computing Is Inevitable For EDA“
  • Nicolas Mokhoff “DAC: IC Design Bound For Cloud Computing“
  • Panel: “3D Stacked Die: Now Or The Future?“
  • Nicolas Mokhoff “Disruptive 3D Vias Will Follow Applications“
• Panel:  “Lucio’s Litmus Test: Is Your Startup Ready For the 21^st Century?”
  • Phillipe Faes “Is EDA Ready For The 21^st Century?“
• Panel: “Does IC Design Have a Future in the Clouds?”
  • Richard Goering  “A Reality Check on Cloud Computing For EDA“
  • Rean Griffith “Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing” (2009) [PDF]
• “A Decade of NOC Research: Where Do We Stand?”
  • Grant Martin “Snatching Victory for NOCs From The Jaws of Confusion“
• Wednesday Recap
  • Grant Martin “Day 4 and 5 of DAC 2010: SOC Enablement, High-Level Synthesis and Heterogeneous Systems“

Thursday Events

• Keynote: “Designing the Motorola Droid”
  • Richard Goering “EDA Gets Wake Up Call From Motorola Droid“
• DAC Embedded/Soc Enablement Day Track
  • Richard Goering “Intel’s Gadi Singer: Applications Drive New Era Of SoC Design“
• Panel: “What Input Language Is The Best Choice For High Level Synthesis”
  • Richard Goering “What Language is Best For High Level Synthesis?“
• Wrap
  • Paul Lindemann Video “47th DAC Closing – Bagpipes Play Amazing Grace“

Recaps

• Peggy Aycinena “DAC2010: House of Glues“
• Dan Holden “Innovation or Obsession? A Retrospective on Electronic Design“
• Frank Schirrmeister “Maybe This Time DAC 201 is the DAC of System Level Design“
• Stan Krolikoski “UVM at DAC“
• Daniel Nenni “My #47DAC Experience: Clash of the Foundry Titans!“
• Paul McClellan “DAC Retrospective“
• Ron Wilson: “Heard at DAC: Is Workflow the Next Frontier for EDA?“
• Ron Wilson: “The Question on Everyone’s Mind” (“…the question of the week was what on earth Cadence means by EDA360.”)
• Steve Schulz “Analyzing Industry Trends Through The Lens Of DAC“
• Karen Bartleson “A Non-Standard Report on the 47th DAC“
• Chris Wilson “Formal Verification is Dead, Long Live Formal Verification“
• Gabe Moretti “DAC 2010 Report From The Floor“
• Jin Zhang “My DAC Journey: Past, Present and Future“
• Vendor Profiles
  • Daniel Payne “My Trip Report for DAC 2010” (14 profiles)
  • Ben Freedman “DAC 2010 Videos” (10 profiles)
  • Joe Hupcey’s interview series comes the closest to an actual booth conversation and was the most refreshing and insightful set of videos I saw from DAC:
    • “Video Interview with AMIQ“
    • “Video Interview with Zocalo“
    • “Video Interview with Duolog“
  • Graham Bell “EDA Cafe DAC 2010 Vendor Video Profiles” (51 profiles)
  • John Blyler “Video from DAC, E3, Arecibo“
  • Chip Estimate TV “IP Supplier Talk at DAC 2010” (45 profiles; note: requires a Microsoft Silverlight install)
• 3D Design
  • Rahul Deokar “DAC 2010 – A Coming Out Party For 3D-IC Design“
• Attendance Down 25%
  • DAC “47th DAC Announces Preliminary Attendance Numbers“
  • Dave Orrechio “DAC 2010: Smaller Crowds But Interest in FPGA Design Remains High“
  • Olivier Coudert “DAC 47th Digest: What You Missed (Even If You Were There)“
  • Daniel Payne “DAC47 Attendance Down 25%“
  • John MacDonald “Off To The County Fair“
  • John Cooley “DAC Exec Committee caught double counting 1,554 attendees”
    • amends  earlier http://www.deepchip.com/wiretap/100628.html
• Social Media
  • Paul Lindemann “Feels like mostly media types & marketeers tweeting about #47dac. Any practicing engineers finding Twitter useful yet?”
  • Paul Lindemann “Twittering About DAC“
  • Lori Kate Smith “Social Media @ DAC: Role of Journalists, Alcohol and Print vs. Online“

Current count: 81 posts.