Frank Schirrmeister

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Frank Schirrmeister is executive director, strategic programs, system solutions in Synopsys' System Design Group. He leads strategic activities across system software and hardware assisted development for industries like automotive, data center and 5G/6G communications, as well as for horizontals like AI/ML. Prior to Synopsys, Schirrmeister held various senior leadership positions at Arteris, Cadence Design Systems, Imperas, Chipvision and SICAN Microelectronics, focusing on product marketing and management, solutions, strategic ecosystem partner initiatives, and customer engagement. He holds an MSEE from the Technical University of Berlin and actively participates in cross-industry initiatives as chair of the Design Automation Conference's Engineering Tracks.

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Getting The Right Return On Invested Power Consumption
By Frank Schirrmeister - 26 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

Three weeks ago, I participated in a panel on low power and modeling at the system level. It took place at DesignCon 2015 in Santa Clara, together with representatives from AMD, Avago, and Qualcomm. Interestingly enough, it gave me the opportunity to set some of the myths and dis-information about power consumption in emulation straight, but more on that later. The panel was moderated by Steve ... » read more

What Will 2015 Bring For System-On-Chip Verification?
By Frank Schirrmeister - 29 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

Starting a new year, I always look back at predictions from years past to see how far off they were from reality and try to understand why. Rolling back 10 years, IEEE Spectrum published its annual “Winners and Losers” issue. Looking back, three predictions stick out for me. The first one is about how we consume media. Back in the January 2005 issue of IEEE Spectrum, Internet Protocol T... » read more

Top-Down SoC Verification
By Frank Schirrmeister - 18 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 0

In the world of system-on-chip (SoC) verification, 2014 was an interesting year of transition. After much discussion throughout the year about graph-based techniques and the role of software for verification, we at Cadence ended the year with a bang – last week we announced Perspec System Verifier. The customers with whom we’ve been working on this product for years tell us that this is a b... » read more

The Next Big Shift In Verification
By Frank Schirrmeister - 20 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 1

We are coming to the end of the year—have you started your Christmas shopping list yet? For us bloggers, it is time for predictions about what the next year will bring in EDA technology. Three core trends will shape 2015—even more closely connected verification engines, innovations in hardware-assisted development, and software as a driver for verification. All three core trends are r... » read more

System Design Enabling Surround Computing
By Frank Schirrmeister - 23 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

For a while now I have been wondering about the next killer application driving electronics. During CDNLive in Austin a couple of weeks ago, Dr. Lisa Su, at the time still Chief Operating Officer and since October 7th president and CEO at AMD, gave some answers at a keynote titled, “The Trends Redefining Our Industry.” The answer may well be “surround computing.” Su identified a coup... » read more

New Tools Enabling The Internet of Things
By Frank Schirrmeister - 25 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Last week I attended CDNLive Boston as a speaker and was really looking forward to the keynote given by Samuel H. Fuller, CTO and VP of R&D at Analog Devices, called “The Third Exponential Wave and the Challenges Ahead”. It was great to see, re-affirmed by Dr. Fuller, a lot of my thoughts about the Internet of Things and how it requires new tools in EDA. This, by the way, conveniently t... » read more

When To Virtualize, When To Stay In The Real World
By Frank Schirrmeister - 21 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Virtualization is all the craze these days. People have virtual personas on LinkedIn, Facebook and Match. I sent my daughter to a Minecraft camp at Stanford where she built virtual worlds while learning programming. Virtualization also plays an important role in chip development, especially when it comes to representing the system environment. There is, however, some crass misinformation out th... » read more

The Agony Of Hardware-Assisted Development Choices
By Frank Schirrmeister - 24 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

“When defining a product, if you haven’t upset at least one part of the organization, then the product is probably ill defined and tries to address too many things!” That’s what one of my mentors taught me early on in my career as product manager. Ever since then I have been interested in portfolio management. The most recent announcement that we made on the Protium Rapid Prototyping Pl... » read more

Game Of Eco Systems
By Frank Schirrmeister - 26 Jun, 2014 - Comments: 0

My first ever blog post on May 28, 2008, was called “May you live in interesting times …”, starting with “the view from the top” at Synopsys. At the time, my focus was abstraction levels and how the industry has been moving upwards for decades. While it is not a Chinese proverb after all (read my blog above), we still do live in interesting times, perhaps more so that ever. One of the... » read more

Confessions Of An ESL-Aholic
By Frank Schirrmeister - 22 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

At DAC 1997 – 17 years ago – Gary Smith coined the term “Electronic System-Level” (ESL) design. Around the same time I entered EDA when becoming part of Cadence and became very involved in ESL. Things have changed over the last 17 years quite a bit. While some of the predictions did not come true, others definitely did. Over the last couple of years the tools to be counted as part of sy... » read more

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