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The DACeZine also has a Letters to the Editor section to allow for shorter contributions to the contents and directions of the publication. When necessary, answers to the letters will come from the appropriate member of the team (including our readers), since I do not (yet) hold the total knowledge of the industry within me. I encourage all of you to write, either a viewpoint or a letter, and state your opinions on matters that impact our industry, the contents of this publication, or, for that matter, the publication itself. Send your letters to: dacezine@dac.com.

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DAC: Around EDA in Six Days

By Gabe Moretti, Editor

From June 8 to June 13, Anaheim will host the most comprehensive coverage of the EDA industry and the issues relevant to electronics design.  Technical sessions, keynote speeches, tutorials, panels, exhibits, and collocated events will challenge, instruct, and even entertain attendees.

If you are on the go and need to check information about DAC you can do it through your cell phone or whatever mobile device you have on hand.  Just use your browser and go to http://dacmobile.mobi/.

As you go from one technical session to another on the second floor of the Anaheim Convention Center, stop by the DACeZine booth.  Tell us what you like and what you do not, take a copy of the Gary Smith EDA industry Wallcharts, and see what he recommends as his "must see" vendors.  And do not forget that entries for the drawing for a Samsung 50" HDTV are still open until June 30.  So tell all of your friends to subscribe to DACeZine: either online or at the booth.

Ed Sperling's interview with Jack Little completes our talks with this year’s DAC keynote speakers.  The president and co-founder of The Mathworks talks about system-level design and the role his company can play in the EDA market. 

David Stewart, CEO of CriticalBlue, looks at the changing role of hardware and software design and development brought about by multicore architectures.  It is the software developers that has to make the most changes to the way development is done.  Although hardware designers have always lived with parallelism, the notion is new to most software engineers.  To learn more about the issue you can attend a collocated event, Tuesday, June 10, organized by the Multicore Association. Read this Viewpoint.

Bart Vanthournout, chairman of the OSCI TLM Working Group, describes in his article the importance of TLM 2 and gives a glimpse into the creation of this standard.  You will be able to learn much more about the new Transaction Level Modeling standard by attending the OSCI collocated workshop Monday, June 9.  Read this Viewpoint.

Limor Fix, this year's DAC Chair, announces a new initiative: "Best of DAC".  It gives the attendees a new way to judge various aspects of the exhibitors.  This empowers each attendee to provide feedback and thus help both DAC and the exhibitors to improve the Conference. Read all about it.

DAC attendees can take advantage of six collocated events and 14 Workshops to increase their knowledge of specific areas of the industry, both from a technical and from a business point of view.  Read the entire article.

ACM, one of DAC's sponsors, each year awards researchers with The ACM Turing Award.  The award was named after Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundation and limits of computing, and who was a key contributor to the Allied cryptanalysis of the German Enigma cipher during World War II. Since its inception in 1966, the Turing Award has honored the computer scientists and engineers who created the systems and underlying theoretical foundations that have propelled the information technology industry.  Recipients of the 2007 award will speak at DAC on Monday, June 9, in the afternoon.  Read about the speakers and the details of the event.

Management Day is a special day and a special track at DAC which, as in previous years, gives both managers and those interested in a career in management, the opportunity to learn and network.  This year's Management Day program will offer a number of insights from peers about the decision process used in solving issues confronting them during development of today’s leading-edge IC designs.  It is a wonderful opportunity to gain experience and to compare your methods with those of others in your industry.  Find out how and when to attend.

Monday morning, June 9, at 10:45 you can attend an interesting talk in the DAC Pavilion.  Delivered by Dr. James C. Rautio, it is part of the EDA Heritage Series.  The historic contributions of James Maxwell to EDA technology will be described. Read the details.

DAC will provide each attendee with a rich and unique experience to learn, grow, and share.  You cannot afford to miss it. I look forward to seeing you. I will be in the DACeZine booth often during the conference. Please stop by to say hello.