DAC 2009 Blog Coverage Roundup

DAC 2009 Blog Coverage Roundup

See DAC 2010 Blog Coverage Roundup for 2010 Roundup.

Sunday Events

• Daniel Payne on  Sunday at DAC – What really happens in the Press Room?
• Grant Martin on “Day Zero of DAC…Welcome Reception“
• Richard Goering on “Gary Smith’s Prescription for Explosive Growth“
• Frank Schirrmeister on “#46DAC Is On The Way…With Guaranteed Standing Ovation“
• John Donovan “Gary Smith (Informally) Launches DAC“

Monday Events

• John Busco on “Getting to DAC“
• Daniel Payne Virtual IDMs – Can they compete with Intel and other IDMs?
• Mike Demler on “Highlights from Monday at DAC2009“
• Grant Martin on “Panel: Hogan’s Heroes – The Long Road to System Sign Off” in “Day 1 of DAC: Hogan’s Heroes“
• Keynote Panel: Futures for EDA, a CEO View
  • Dylan McGrath on “EDA Chiefs Debate Getting Bigger Slice of the Pie“
  • Nicolas Mokhoff on “The ‘big three’ EDA execs speak in ‘one voice’“
  • Siddharth Garg on “Updates from DAC CEO Panel“
  • Richard Goering on “Ten Takeaways from the EDA CEO Panel“
  • Paul McClellan on “DAC Day 1“
  • Mike Demler “EDA CEOs“
  • Andrew Kahng on “DAC CEO Panel: Audience Questions That Were Not Asked“
  • Daniel Nenni on “Semiconductor Design Enablement: CEO Panel“
  • John Cooley on “Pre-Printed Audience Questions Doubted at Dull DAC CEO Panel“
  • DAC Video of Panel available at “Futures for EDA, the CEO View“
• SystemC Users Group Event — 11th NASCUG Meeting
  • Nicolas Mokhoff “OSCI Reports on its Progress at DAC“
  • Jason Andrews “Day 1 of DAC is a Wrap“
• EDA Roadmap Workshop
  • John Ferguson on “Unified EDA Roadmap? and Thoughts on the Next DFM“
• Workshop for Women in Design Automation
  • Dee McCrorey “Navigating a World of Change“
• Daniel Nenni on Atrenta Blogfest in “Blogging from SFO Beware of Bloggers“
• JL Gray on “Something Old, Something New: Monday at DAC“
• Daniel Payne “Mentor Dinner Party – Classy Digs and Piano Theatrics“
• Matthew Michels on “The Purpose of Conferences“

Tuesday Events

• Brian Fuller on Conversation Central Sessions in “DAC and the Unbearable Lightness of Blogging”.
• Cadence/Calypto/Forte Luncheon “Are SystemC- and TLM-Driven Design Ready to Replace RTL?”
  • Richard Goering  in  “A Reality Check on SystemC and TLM“
• Steve Leibson on “Beer and Processors at DAC“
• Keynote: “Overcoming the New Design Complexity Barrier: Alignment of Technology and Business Models”
  • Dylan McGrath in “TSMC Keynoter Touts Cooperative Business Models“
• Panel “System Prototypes: Virtual, Hardware, or Hybrid”
  • Rick Nelson “DAC Panel Covers Approaches to Prototyping“
• Panel “EDA In Flux: Should I Stay or Should I Go?”
  • Dylan McGrath on “Future Job Prospects Bright for EDA Pro’s“
• Management Day Track
  • Richard Goering on “8 Design Managers Reveal Top Concerns“
  • Peggy Aycinena on “R U a Wizard of Management Warcraft?“
• Session 5: Novel Design and Verification Strategies
  • David Abercrombie on “Using Lithography Simulation to Calibrate Equation Based DRC Checks“
• “Panel: Can We Afford for Startups to Wind Down”
  • Paul McClellan on “DAC: VC Panel“
  • Sanjay Srivistava “Can We Afford for Startups to Wind Down?“
• Panel Silicon IP Beyond Chips to Systems
  • Ron Wilson on “What is the Future for Intellectual Property“
• Denali Party
  • Steve Leibson on “Denali Parties Like it’s 1999, not 2009” and “You Gotta Fight For Your Life In EDA“
  • John Blyler on “DAC Tuesday — From the Denali Party Floor.”
• Siddharth Garg on “Tuesday Wrap Up“
• Rick Munden on “Tuesday at DAC“
• Mike Demler on “Highlights from Tuesday at DAC2009“

Wednesday Events

• “Virtual Platform Workshop at DAC”
  • Grant Martin in “Day 3 of DAC 2009: Virtual Platform Workshop” and “Platform Based Design = Virtual Platform“
  • Jason Andrews “First Ever Virtual Platform Workshop Deemed a Success“
  • OVP: “Virtual Platform Workshop at DAC 46 Resources (All Papers and Presentations)“
• William Dally Keynote
  • Dylan McGrath on “NVIDIA Chief Scientist to EDA: Give Us Power Tools“
  • Paul McClellan on “DAC: Denial Computing“
  • Siddharth Garg on “Update from Wednesday Keynote“
  • Grant Martin on “Day 3 of DAC 2009: Bill Dally Keynote“
  • Richard Goering on “GPU’s or Multi-Core for EDA Applications“
• Panel: “DFM: Band-Aid or Competitive Weapon?”
  • Nicolas Mokhoff “DFM Debated as Weapon of Mass Design“
• Panel “Tweet, Blog, or News: How Do I Stay Current?”
  • Sean Murphy on “Impressions From DAC09 Panel ‘Tweet, Blog, or News: How Do I Stay Current’“
• Birds of a Feather: “Managing Project Health”
  • Sean Murphy on “Managing Project Health Birds of a Feather at DAC 2009“
• User Track: Poster Session and Ice Cream Social
  • Peggy Aycinena on “DAC Best Poster & Voice of the Engineer“
• User Track: “Front-End Development: Embedded Software and Design Exploration”
  • Grant Martin on “Day 3 of DAC 2009: User Track“
• Rick Munden on “Wednesday at DAC“
• Brian Fuller on his own Conversation Central Session (with Video) The Changing Media Landscape at DAC”
• Mike Demler on “Highlights from Wednesday at DAC2009“

Thursday Events

• “User Track: Power Analysis and Re-use”
  • Aveek Sarkar on “Live from User Track: Power Analysis and Re-Use“
  • Richard Goering on “Users Share Secrets of Power Modeling“
• Session: “WACI: Wild and Crazy Ideas”
  • Joshua Romero (IEEE Spectrum) “Crowdsourcing the Complexities of Electronic Design“
• Siddharth Garg on “Update on Special Panel on Green Technologies“
• Paul Lindemann posted a video on “Closing of the 46th DAC Exhibits“

Recaps

• Dylan McGrath video interview of Andrew Kang “Video: DAC Chair on 2009 Show“
• “Is DAC Dying?” by Brian Baily answers “No.”
• Gabe Moretti on “DAC’s First Two Days“
• JL Gray on “The Past, Present, and Future of the Design Automation Conference“
• John Blyler on “Impression of EDA and DAC09“
• Paula Jones on “Design Automation Conference Wrap-Up“
• Richard Goering on “My 25 Year Design Automation Conference Retrospective“
• Brian Bailey on “DAC2009 in Review“
• John Busco on “What I Found at DAC“
• Peggy Aycinena on “DAC 2009 — Make Mine a 10 x 10“
• Gabe Moretti on “DAC: Looking Forward to Anaheim“
• Grant Martin on “Some Suggestions for DAC“
• Mark Gilbert on “Post DAC Report: Decent Traffic and Lots of Optimism“
• Harry Gries on “DAC Theme #3: Increasing Clouds over SF Bay“
• Paul McClellan on “DAC In Review“
• John Ford on “#46DAC Report from a DFT Blogger.”
• Role of TSMC in EDA
  • Peggy Aycinena on “The TSMC Tsunami at DAC 2009“
  • Ron Wilson on “DAC Reflections: Who is Going to Pay For All That EDA R&D?“
• TLM 2.0
  • Jakob Engblom on “The TLM DAC“
• ESL Focus
  • Grant Martin on “The End of ESL is Existentialism“
  • Dylan McGrath on “ESL/HLS Buzz at DAC“
  • Johannes Stahl on “46th DAC–Debating ESL, Again…“
  • Ron Wilson “Impressions from DAC: ESL is Finally Gathering Some Momentum“
  • Frank Schirrmeister on “The ‘S’ in ESL Makes it Difficult“
• Attendance Numbers
  • Grant Martin on “Attendance Numbers“
  • Nicolas Mokhoff on “DAC Attendance Spots Recessionary Times“
  • Don Kurelich on “46th DAC Value Update“
  • Kevin Morris “Dueling DACS: Marketing the Moribund“
  • Paul McClellan on “DAC Attendance“
  • DAC Press Release on “DAC Announces Final Attendance Numbers“
• Product Reviews / Reports
  • Daniel Payne on “DAC 2009” includes a baker’s dozen of new product reviews.
  • Calypto: Steve Leibson on “Squeezing Excess Power out of Synthesized Blocks“
  • Mentor Vista: Steve Leibson on “System-Level Design Provides Maximum Control Over Power“
  • Oasys Design: Harry Gries on “DAC Theme #2: Oasys Frappe“
• Conversation Central, Social Media, Twitter, and Blogging
  • Rick Jamison on “Competitors in Cyberspace” Conversation Central Sessions (Mon-Wed)
  • Harry Gries on “DAC Theme #1: The Rise of the EDA Bloggers“
  • John MacDonald on “Cooley Says My Blog Sucks” (primarily a roundup of Conversation Central events)
  • Deepak Das “Can the EDA Industry Truly Leverage Social Media“
  • Robert Dwyer “5 Fascinating People I Met at the Design Automation Conference“
  • Karen Bartleson “A New Dimension In the Standards Game“

Please leave a comment or contact me to let me know if I have overlooked or incorrectly categorized anything. I will update this list for posts in August that offer substantive coverage of events at Design Automation Conference 2009 (see also “DAC46 in the News” for pre-conference coverage).

Update Mon-Aug-3: As I mentioned in my comments to John McGeHee below:

If you write a blog post that reviews an event, a day, or DAC as a whole with some substantive commentary I will include a link to it. I assume that more reports will come in until the end of August, so go ahead and take the time to write up your impressions and insights.

Update Tue-Aug-4: Continuing to refine structure by adding subcategories to day by day and conference recap organization.

Update Sat-Aug-8: More updates, Mike Demler‘s daily recaps are detailed, he has also made them available upon request as a single PDF. Kevin Morris analyzes attendance and other data from the last half a dozen DAC’s in “Dueling DACs.”

Update Sat-Aug-22: More updates, list now covers more than 110 posts by more than 50 authors. Please let me know if I have overlooked any, I will continue to update this list until the end of August.

Update Mon-Dec-29: Richard Goering included this post in his “Notable EDA Blog Posts For 2009” roundup. It’s a good list, and worth reading if you found the list below useful.