On Thursday June 17, DAC had a special set of sessions labelled “Embedded/SOC Enablement Day”, with talks from a variety of people from a variety of companies talking about their strategies and tradeoff choices for complex SOCs, usually in embedded systems. This included a keynote by Gadi Singer of Intel. As I reported in my [...]
On Wednesday June 16 I moderated a special session at DAC 2010 in the morning: “A Decade of NOC Research – Where Do We Stand?”. This was an extremely interesting special session, organised by Anand Ragunathan and Sri Parameswaran, with three excellent speakers: Giovanni De Micheli of EPF Lausanne, Switzerland, who gave an overview of [...]
During today at DAC 2010 I was able to attend some of management day, which I had not attended before. I saw a very interesting presentation by Ken Wagner of PMC-Sierra called “The case for platform devices” which outlined PMC’s design methodology for chip platforms as a vehicle for delivering functionality to users. His definition [...]
DAC 2010 opened with the Monday Exhibits day. I showed up at the DAC Pavilion to hear Gary Smith’s “What to see at DAC” only to be regaled by music Lousiana style, what I would call Semi-Zydeco (not Semiconductors) with Gary on washboard and vocals, Mike Santarini on guitar, Bob Gardner on what I think [...]
The title of course being drawn from Leonard Cohen’s first book of poetry, published only 2 years after I was born! Looking back at my posts from DAC 2009, there was a considerable similarity between Day 0 then and Day 0 yesterday. First was the CODES+ISSS 2010 programme committee meeting (part of ESWeek 2010 in [...]
I arrived at Oakland Airport to fly to the triply-named Orange County/Santa Ana/John Wayne airport to attend DAC starting tomorrow (programme committee meeting for CODES+ISSS 2010, plus some of the opening receptions tomorrow evening) only to find that my Southwest flight was delayed 2 hours (so was the follow on, but the previous one left [...]