DAC and it’s Founder, Pat Pistilli
Today I had the pleasure of talking with Pat Pistilli by phone about how the Design Automation Conference got started, the early days of EDA and electronics design, and a sense of where we are…
DAC47 Attendance Down 25%
As you can tell by my title I don’t spin the numbers for our industry’s most popular trade show, so take a look at attendance over the past four years to see how the recession…
SPICE update from Mentor
I talked with See-Mei Chan, Technical Marketing Manager at Mentor this morning because we couldn’t connect in Anaheim earlier this week. I wanted to better understand what is new with Eldo, the SPICE circuit simulator…
Editor Dinner on Tuesday – Synopsys
Blogging in EDA has its rewards and last night was a real treat as Synopsys provided a superb dinner experience at Mr. Stox in Anaheim. Editors, Bloggers and Synopsys folks enjoy socializing The fabled wine…
How to Draw a Crowd at DAC
ChipEstimate has savvy marketing and knows how to draw a crowd at DAC: 1) Get a big booth 2) Announce an iPad give away 3) Repeat often Drawing for an iPad at Chip Estimate
Coolest Car at DAC
What do cars have in common with EDA? Well, nothing really, however this booth of IC Manage gets the Coolest Car award from me: Coolest Car at booth of IC Manage
PathFinder – ESD Integrity for IC designs
Who Jerome Toublanc, Principal Product Engineer at Apache Design Automation Overview Notes PathFinder – ESD integrity for advanced electronic circuits What is ESD? ESD for an IC at an IO pad. How do you protect…
CyberEDA – PCSIM
CK Lee, Yong Dai CK Lee, CEO of CyberEDA History – Epic, Synopsys, Nassda, Synopsys Analog Design Debugging System (ADDS) – Helps IC designer to find bugs, RC values, compare simulation results. – Still in…
Legend Design – MSIM, Turbo MSIM
Who You-Pang Wei, President of Legend Design MSIM – SPICE simulator for IC and PCB, IBIS verification. Able to simulate RF, Std Cells and LCD (using Hybrid models). Measured data can be used to correct…
OVM and UVM
Buzz in the OVM UVM Booth Crowds of engineers were interested in OVM and UVM this year at DAC.