Exhibitor Comments


“The Design Automation Conference gives us feedback and validates how well our standards are being received and accepted by the EDA community. This year, we could see Accellera standards –– from SystemVerilog and VHDL to UPF and OVL–– featured in nearly every company’s booth and demo at DAC.”
Shrenik Mehta
Accellera Chair
www.accellera.org

 “DAC continues to be the most cost effective place for startups like Altos to showcase their products, advertise their successes and share ideas with the design community.  We generated a number of quality leads that will form the majority of our sales pipeline for the next two quarters.”
Jim McCanny
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Altos Design Automation, Inc.  
www.altos-da.com

“DAC was a successful event for Apache this year.  Besides being able to meet with key customers, we also won three Best of DAC awards in the best new product, best presentation and the best booth categories. We look forward to the competition next year in San Francisco.”
Yukari Ono
Director of Marketing
Apache Design Solutions
www.apache-da.com

 “DAC was terrific –– it continues to exceed our expectations for the number of high quality prospect and customer discussions.”
George Harper
Vice President of Marketing
Bluespec, Inc.
www.bluespec.com

“Calypto had a tremendous number of visitors come to our booth interested in our PowerPro and SLEC products.  The DAC committee did a great job organizing the event which allowed us to focus on meeting with customers and demonstrating our products.  I’m looking forward to next year’s DAC.”
Ashley Kupka
Marketing Coordinator
Calypto Design Systems
www.calypto.com

“As one of the premier events for the global chip design community, DAC showcases the trends and innovations that will drive the industry moving forward, and it provides a great opportunity to both build and strengthen relationships with our semiconductor customers and ecosystem partners.”
Tiffany Sparks
Senior Director, Marketing Communications
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd.
www.charteredsemi.com

“Exhibiting at DAC 2008 was instrumental in increasing our company’s visibility and widening our pipeline.  Literally hundreds of people watched our product demonstration; several of them began evaluations with us almost immediately afterwards.  The luncheon we helped organize, Interoperable PDK Libraries, was a winner –– it drew over 200 people, and it felt like most of them stopped by our exhibit right afterwards!  For an EDA exhibitor, DAC is worth every penny.
Eric Filseth
Chief Executive Officer
Ciranova
www.ciranova.com

“Tactically, it was a very good show for us.  We saw everyone we wanted to, and then some.”
Isadore Katz
President and Chief Executive Officer
CLK Design Automation
www.clkda.com

“CWS had a very busy and successful DAC 2008.  Two key reasons for this are.  First is the preponderance of failures due to noise issues, especially going down from 65- to 45-nanometers, and not only due to noise throughout the substrate but involving on-chip interconnects,  package, and board.  And second, the recognition of the big players, very strongly ‘motivated’ by their customers, to the need to improve their analog/RF flow by offering a noise budgeting solution at the very early stages of the design cycle.”
Brieuc Turluche
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Coupling Wave Solutions
www.cwseda.com

“DAC is always Denali’s biggest marketing activity for the year.  DAC’08 did not disappoint as EDA and IP’s premier event by bringing together working professionals, industry experts, press and students in a variety of EDA, design and verification disciplines.  This year we successfully highlighted our industry-leading and standards-based IP and EDA solutions and partnerships around PCI Express, USB 3.0, DDR-SDRAM, and NAND Flash. We look forward to another great conference in 2009.”
David Lin
Vice President of Marketing
Denali Software
www.denali.com

“Attending the 45th DAC was a great success for EVE as we were able to meet with many potential customers and gather some quality leads.  It was nice to see the booths with vibrant colors, attractive graphics and exciting giveaways.”
Cindy Wilson
Marketing Communications Manager
EVE
www.eve-team.com

“The Design Automation Conference is the high point of the year for the semiconductor design industry.  Panels of industry leaders illuminate important trends, detailed technical presentations present the state-of-the art, and both the DACeZine and Exhibitor Forum are providing new ways for companies to reach the design community.  I would give an 'A+' to the DAC Committee and show organizers.”
Graham Bell
Director of Marketing
Extreme DA
www.extreme-da.com

“DAC 2008 was Forte’s best DAC ever.  We connected with a high number of serious decision makers at the event and were able to gauge very quickly the increasing interest in ESL over past years.”
Brett Cline
Vice President of Marketing and Sales
Forte Design Systems
www.forteds.com

“IC Manage had an extremely successful DAC 08.  We were particularly impressed with the high number of serious prospects that attended.”
Dean Drako
President and Chief Executive Offier
IC Manage
http://www.icmanage.com

“As software content becomes more important to companies developing SoCs, DAC may be the best place for those companies to look for software tools.  And, in fact, we were pleasantly surprised by the number of software developers that attended DAC this year … and stopped by our booth!”
Larry Lapides
Vice President of Sales
Imperas Ltd.
www.imperas.com

“We have been attending DAC, since Kilopass’ early inception in 2004, and as a result have been getting better and better leads for our embedded non-volatile memory IP, XPM. At the conference, we are able to have deeper, in-person conversations with our customers and new prospects about the advantages of embedded one-time programmable, standard CMOS memory, and how to add it to designs to lower overall cost, power and die area.”
Craig Rawlings
Director Marketing
Kilopass
www.kilopass.com

“DAC 2008 was a great business development event for us –– we met with many senior prospects and partners from around the world.  DAC represents an excellent investment for our marketing dollars.”
Mike Woodward
Industry Manager, Communications & Semiconductors
The Mathworks
www.mathworks.com

“DAC provided us with the opportunity to present SpringSoft to the EDA community for the first time.  DAC was a pivotal moment for us in this regard and we were very pleased with how well we were received.  DAC will continue to be a premier event for delivering our message to the market.”
Rob van Blommestein
Marketing Communications Manager
SpringSoft Inc.
www.springsoft.com

“In terms of quality contacts from a trade-show floor, the 2008 DAC turned out as better than expected for Takumi Technology.”
Ravi K. Ravikumar
Director of Marketing
Takumi Technology, Corp.
www.verific.com

“DAC has consistently proven to be an important venue for Virage Logic to expand and showcase its trusted IP partner role in the overall SoC design ecosystem.”
Sabina Burns
Vice President, Corporate Marketing
Virage Logic
www.viragelogic.com