July 14, 2009


Guest Speaker, Jonathan Kaplan: Has Willful Infringement Been Tamed?
Guest Speaker, Sean Murphy: Impact of Social Media Tools on the Speed of Team Decision Making
Guest Speaker, Neil Carney: Design-Process Co-optimization – The Real DFM
Viewpoint by, Holly Stump and David Lin: Real Men (And Women!) Use IP
Guest Speaker, Anupam Bakshi: Why Come to DAC in This Economy?
Guest Speaker, Sean O'Kane: Leading IP Suppliers Discuss Latest in Semiconductor IP
Guest Speaker, Bill Heiser: Interoperable PDKs for Analog: Will They Fly?
Designers to Share Real-World Experiences at DAC User Track
TSMC and Partners Preparing for the Upturn with the Open Innovation Platform™
Landing a Good Job in a Bad Economy
The New Future of Design Automation Research
The Many Shades of Green at DAC
DAC and King Tut Together in San Francisco
UC Berkeley Team to Receive First ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation
ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation Executive Committee Elected
News from DAC Sponsor IEEE Council on EDA (CEDA)

June 25, 2009


Guest Speaker, Tiffany Sparks: Voters Put the Spotlight on Power Scavenging
Guest Speakers, Yatin Trivedi: Behind the Scenes
Guest Speaker, Scott Sandler: The Quest for Closure
Viewpoint by Eric Filseth, Automating RF, Analog and Mixed-Signal Physical Design for Nanometer SoCs
Viewpoint by Lauro Rizzati, Go Green with Energy-Efficient Emulation
Register Early and Save Money
Six Full-Day Tutorials Planned
Keynote Speeches and Plenary Panels Highlight This Year’s Program
Dr. Jeannette Wing of NSF to Offer Views on Computing Research and Education

June 16, 2009


Guest Speaker, Peggy Aycinena: Telle Whitney — MRP Award
Guest Speakers, Jim Hogan and Peter Levin: Whole System Design - Abstraction, Security, and Scale
Viewpoint by Naomi Fine, IP at Risk: Protecting Company Jewels
Guest Speaker, John Willoughby: How YouTube Has Helped The EDA Market
User Track: A Unique Angle
New Exhibitors to Showcase Innovations
DAC Technical Panels 2009: Expect the Unexpected
46th DAC to Offer Eight Workshops
Phil Kaufman Award Nominations

May 21, 2009


Guest Speaker, Geoffrey James: Q4 2008 EDA
Viewpoint by Michiel Ligthart: Software Everybody Needs But Only Few Know How To Write (Well)
Viewpoint by Paul Cohen: For the Common Good
DAC Attracts Colocated Events & Workshops
The Republic of Armenia Recognizes Dr. Yervant Zorian
News from DAC Sponsor IEEE Council on EDA (CEDA)

May 7, 2009


Guest Speaker, Doug Amos: FPGAs in 2009
Viewpoint by Dave Orecchio: FPGA Design Made Easy?
Guest Speaker, Steve Kaufer: Power-Integrity Analysis
Vote for Pavilion Panels
Welcome from the DAC General Chair
Engineering Scholarships
Panel Sessions
Kaufman Award Nominations Open

April 17th, 2009


Guest Speaker, Geoffrey James: Core Business Issue
Guest Speakers, Bradley Geden and Sanjay Sawant: Parallel Simulation Boosts Verification Productivity
Viewpoint by Larry Lapides: Multicore? Ah, Software, There’s the Rub
Viewpoint by John Darringer: IEEE’s Council on EDA Supports EDA Professionals
Nomination Deadline Extended for MRP Award
Nominations Open for Two New Awards

March 19th, 2009


Squeeze Play
Directory of ESL tools
Turning Point for ESL
Do we really need ESL?
Long Term Evolution Wireless...
Where is CAD’s Stimulus Package?
The Importance of DAC
Cadence Supports DAC
Student Sponsorship Opportunity
Nominations for MRP Women in EDA Achievement Award

February 19th, 2009


Chips and Wine: It’s All About the Process
Pavilion Panels – Who gets on the Podium?
Mixed-signal Simulation: The Need for a New Approach
Viewpoint: Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) extensions for SystemC
46th DAC Developing Exciting Panel Lineup
Paper Submissions Increase
What I learned in 20 years of serving the Analog IC design market
A Directory of Mixed-Signal Tools
DAC Expands Value for Exhibitors with Silver, Gold, Platinum Sponsor Program

January 15th, 2009


A Directory of Verification Tools
Leveraging System Models for RTL Functional Verification using Sequential Logic Equivalence Checking
Economics of Verification
The impact of the financial crisis on globalization
An SEO Primer: 7 Steps to Getting Found in Google

December 3rd, 2008


The User Track: It's All About You!
Gabe Moretti: Tools and Services for Physical Design of ICs
Guest Speaker, Joe Sawicki: Connecting IC Design and Fabrication to Reduce Manufacturing Variability
Viewpoint by Lauro Rizzatti: The Parallel Flow to Implementation: Verification
Peggy Aycinena:Profile: Sachin Sapatnekar
DAC News: DAC Planning Under Way
The 46th DAC Student Design Contest
Sponsor News: Award Honoring Dr. Richard Newton

October 16th, 2008


Volume 4, Issue 2, Oct. 16th, 2008
Geoffrey James: Green EDA: How the Big Four Lead the Software Industry in Green IT
Peggy Aycinena: Andrew Kahng – Crafting the Future of EDA
Guest Speaker Jonathan Smith: Rapid Implementation of Low Power Microprocessors
Viewpoint by Marc Swinnen: Activity Standard for Signoff: Which One Are You Using?
Gabe Moretti: Finding tools for low power design
Gabe Moretti: New User-Focused Track at DAC!

September 16th, 2008


Volume 4, Issue 1, Sept. 16th, 2008
Guest Speaker, Sunil Ashtaputre: Algorithmic Synthesis: The “Killer App” For Broad ESL Deployment
Gabe Moretti: High Level Synthesis Tools at DAC
Contribute to the 46th DAC Program
Viewpoint by Mike Meredith: ESL Synthesis Innovation: The Importance of Choosing the Right Technology
Gabe Moretti: Welcome to the September Issue
Peggy Aycinena: Andrew Kahng – Citizenship Defined

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