ChipEstimate.com has archived all of the IP presentations in PDF from DAC called IP Talks. Companies include:

Algotronix
ARM
Cadence
CAST
CebaTech
Common Platform
Denali
Dolphin
Elliptic
eSilicon
Impinj
IPextreme
KiloPass
Mixel
MoSys
PLDA
Rambus
TakeCharge
Sidense
Synopsys
True Circuits
TSMC
Virage Logic
Wipro

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David Heller taped 64 brief videos at DAC this month, ranging from 48 seconds to well over 4 minutes. His guest speakers all work at EDA companies that exhibited at DAC, from start-up Analog Rails to giant Synopsys and everything else in-between.
I first met David at Viewlogic in the 90’s, and I’ll never forget the [...]

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Sean Murphy is now famous for organizing bloggers at DAC 2008 in Anaheim. Check out his list of EDA bloggers.

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Sunday evening EDAC did something different by trying to entertain the DAC audience with a game show, well it was novel yet I predict a show that will not be repeated. In years gone by EDAC has provided an overview of our industry that was at least informative.
Last night the EDAC event was pre-canned ads [...]

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I’m a SPICE and transistor-level IC guy so will make the rounds on Monday to see:

Nascentric (OmegaSim - FastSPICE)
Berkeley DA (Analog FastSPICE)
Synopsys (HSIM, NanoSim - FastSPICE)
Mentor (AdIT - FastSPICE)
Cadence (UltraSim - FastSPICE)
Xoomsys (parallel SPICE)
Magma (FineSim PRO - FastSPICE)

For IC layout tools:

Ciranova
Micro Magic
Analog Rails
Magma

Hopefully serendipity will lead me to discover some amazing  new gems.
You’ll recognize me as the [...]

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Cadence dominates the custom IC layout market and CiraNova gets a lot of attention about automating analog layout, but I’m here to tell you about an interesting company called Micro Magic that is offering a free IC layout viewer called MAX-View.
Their demo is outrageous because they can load, pan, zoom and edit a design with [...]

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This special offer is to encourage you to invite friends and colleagues to register with DAC for a Free Exhibit Pass.  This promotion includes complementary admission to the Exhibit Floor, Exhibitor Forum, Turing Award and all Keynote Addresses throughout the week.  A $65 value.
Forward this to a friend to register here and use the special promo [...]

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