Something I have had a loose association with for a number of years is the Electronic Design Process Symposium, which is being held next year in April (7-8), always at the Monterey Beach Hotel in Monterey, California. I have talked there, given a keynote, been on panels, and served on the programme committee for it. [...]
Today at the DVClub meeting in Silicon Valley, I attended a really interesting talk by Michael Theobald of D.E. Shaw Research, who described the use of Formal Verification techniques in the verification of Anton, their multi-node specialised computing machine designed to model molecular dynamics of protein folding as a vehicle for drug discovery and design. [...]
I attended Embedded Systems Week in Scottsdale Arizona from Sunday evening to Wednesday this week. This is the merger of 3 separate conferences and a whole bunch of workshops (I don’t have time to stay and attend any of those). As I wrote in last week’s Preview, I gave an invited talk on Monday: “ESL [...]
Next week I will be at Embedded Systems Week in Arizona, giving a talk and being on a panel. Embedded Systems Week is the union of three conferences: CODES+ISSS (The International Conference on Hardware-Software Codesign and System Synthesis), CASES (International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems) and EMSOFT (International Conference on Embedded [...]
I have been invited to participate in a panel session next week as part of the 23rd Synopsys Interoperability Forum, Thursday, 21 October 2010, at Agnews Historic Park in Santa Clara. You can read about the forum here and register on the web page. The panel session will consist of some short presentations and then [...]
In late July I received a copy of a new book published by Cadence: TLM-Driven Design and Verification Methodology. I should mention up front that I know four of the authors well: Brian Bailey, Felice Balarin, Mike McNamara and Yoshi Watanabe. The other two authors are Guy Mosenson and Michael Stellfox. The book is [...]
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 [...]