Behind The Scenes


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


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


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

The Road To DAC: One On One With Lip-Bu Tan


A look at what's driving Cadence's new EDA 360 strategy, the problem areas in EDA and why the company decided to buy Denali. [youtube vid=zreEWGsCe5A] » read more

DAC Attack


Designing chips has always attracted the best and the brightest minds. The sheer complexity of creating submicron technology creates challenges in mathematics, physics and science, and if intellectual stimulation ever wanes there’s always the problems associated with the next process node. Moore’s Law sees to it that new and interesting challenges always have to be met. But it does not... » read more

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