tag: DAC

Merger In Progress
By Jon McDonald - 28 Jun, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald June's been an interesting month, I was at the Design Automation Conference, DAC, in San Francisco, then a week later, the Freescale Technology Forum, FTF. DAC is generally more of a hardware design conference, while FTF generally is a bit more focused on software and systems. This year I was surprised at the similarities in some of the discussions at both shows. At DAC ther... » read more

Experts At The Table: Improving The Efficiency Of Software
By Ed Sperling - 22 Jun, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power/High-Performance Design sat down to talk about how to write better software with Jan Rabaey, Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor at the University of California at Berkeley; Barry Pangrle, solutions architect for low-power design and verification at Mentor Graphics; Emily Shriver, research scientist at Intel; Alan Gibbons, principal engineer at Synopsys; and Dav... » read more

Efficiency Vs. Accuracy
By Barry Pangrle - 14 Jun, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Barry Pangrle If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I wrote an article, Power vs. Accuracy, last year that discussed tradeoffs between power and accuracy for different applications. It turns out that for a number of processing applications, if every bit isn’t perfect, the impact on the final result might not be all that great. Anyone performing financial analytical... » read more

Roundtable: DAC Retrospective
By Ed Sperling - 13 Jun, 2012 - Comments: 0

Is DAC really a design automation conference, or has it shifted to a design enablement conference due to rising complexity breaking down traditional barriers and silos? Low Power High Performance Engineering talks with Atrenta CTO Bernard Murphy about the changes. [youtube vid=Z_xBaRsC_Hs] » read more

Phased Loops
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

One thing that became clear at DAC this year is that the next big collision won’t be the technology itself. It will be the business infrastructure that supports the technology. The integration of IP, software, subsystems, and ultimately entire die and packages will have a major impact on the chip industry on all levels. For some companies it will be good. For others it will be bad. But for... » read more

Low-Power Solutions At DAC
By Bhanu Kapoor - 16 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Bhanu Kapoor Power is the main driver of semiconductor process technology related advances recently. One would expect a similar focus in the electronic design automation industry to help designers implement low power designs. However, the latest DAC in San Diego didn’t give the impression that the EDA industry is thinking likewise, perhaps with the exception of verification aspects of low... » read more

DAC Retrospective
By Ed Sperling - 10 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

The question I repeatedly get asked at DAC is, “How was the show?” And then, frequently, it’s followed by monologue about just how much traffic has shrunk over the years. It’s true there are fewer startups than in the past, and maybe some of the tradeshow floor buzz is gone. But in my humble opinion, that misses the point. DAC, first and foremost, is a conference. The tradeshow part... » read more

Behind The Scenes
By Ed Sperling - 01 Jul, 2010 - Comments: 0

This year’s DAC should be one of the more interesting shows in several years, although not for the usual reasons. As an industry, we are just emerging from one of the worst downturns in decades. It started in December 2007, and various segments of the overall economy will begin picking up at different times, depending upon whether they’re leading indicators or trailing indicators. Netb... » read more

The Road To DAC: One-On-One With Aart de Geus
By Ed Sperling - 11 Jun, 2010 - Comments: 0

Synopsys CEO Aart De Geus sounds off about the future of design and where growth will come from in the EDA market.   [youtube vid=GO-9ILL9fDg] » read more

The Road To DAC: One On One With Wally Rhines
By Ed Sperling - 10 Jun, 2010 - Comments: 0

Mentor Graphics' CEO talks with Low-Power Engineering about the cost of designing a chip, the rising percentage of embedded software, the shift to FPGAs and what's changing in EDA. [youtube vid=Zjs9xz4iD3E] » read more

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