EDA Alert: May 9, 2007

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EDA Alert e-Newsletter
Electronic Design -- www.electronicdesign.com
May 9, 2007

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Today's Table of Contents:

1. Editor's Note: Is It Time For DAC Again?!?
2. Viewpoint: Meeting Consumer Demands For Portable Applications
3. DAC Preview: ESL
4. DAC Preview: Front-End Design
5. DAC Preview: Verification
6. DAC Preview: Physical Design/Analysis
7. Happenings
-RSP'07
-ICICDT '07
-44th DAC
-CAV '07

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1. Editor's Note
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Is It Time For DAC Again?!?

David Maliniak, EDA Technology Editor
Electronic Design Magazine

Well, yes... I'm afraid it is. The ramp-up to the 44th Design Automation Conference is well underway; the EDA industry is getting ready for its Really Big Show. That means I'm sitting on a good deal of information to share about what EDA vendors will unveil in San Diego on June 4.

So consider this edition of EDA Alert to be a DAC Preview edition, in which I'll spill some portion of the beans. The motherlode of early DAC intelligence, though, will appear in the May 24 issue of Electronic Design and, as of that date, on your nearest Web browser at http://www.electronicdesign.com

See you in San Diego!

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2. Viewpoint
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Meeting Consumer Demands For Portable Applications

François Clement, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
Coupling Wave Solutions, Grenoble, France

Consumer markets continually demand cheaper, easier-to-use, and more portable applications. Add to that manufacturing technology trends and these demands have pushed the semiconductor industry to higher levels of integration. Just consider digital applications that combine data processing ?? games, voice, music, and video ?? with memory, encryption, and copyright-protection capabilities on single silicon chips or systems on chip (SoCs) with hundreds of millions of gates. Indeed, this is quite an achievement that required significant innovations in EDA software.

Read the complete story at:
Viewpoint ==> http://www.electronicdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/15545/15545.html?bypass=1

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3. News
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DAC Preview: ESL

As time passes, more bits and pieces of the electronic-system-level (ESL) design and verification flow come together. If you're a fan of ESL methodologies, and in particular of Bluespec's tools and flavor of Verilog, you may wish to visit this year's 44th Design Automation Conference to check out the latest additions to Bluespec's library of pre-packaged IP and design reuse capabilities...

Read the complete story at:
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/15549/15549.html&bypass=1
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4. News
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DAC Preview: Front-End Design

It's true that the RTL design flow is largely commoditized. Yet, EDA vendors do still manage to come up with at least incremental gains for their tools and flows. If you're in search of time/cost savings, greater productivity, more efficient and accurate modeling, or any of a number of enhancements, there could well be gold for you somewhere on the DAC show floor...

Read the complete story at:
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/15551/15551.html&bypass=1

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5. News
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DAC Preview: Verification

The topic of verification is a perennial hot potato at DAC. Given its status as chief time/resource sink in the overall design cycle, verification and improvements in the process thereof will be of keen interest throughout the 44th DAC...

Read the complete story at:
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/15554/15554.html&bypass=1

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6. News
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DAC Preview: Physical Design and Analysis

There are two areas of the design flow that are the ripest for innovation going forward. One is the electronic system level (ESL) at levels of abstraction higher than RTL, and the other is the physical domain, where the ongoing migration to process nodes below 90 nm is placing undue stress on silicon yields. This year's 44th DAC will be a hotbed of news with regard to the back-end flow...

Read the complete story at:
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/15555/15555.html

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TAKE A POLL: Comparing all the ways you receive technical training, would do you prefer?

-- In-person FAE training at my location
-- On demand web casts
-- Live web casts
-- Hands-on seminars
-- Manufacturer's conference with technical sessions

Electronic Design's Quick Poll ==> http://www.elecdesign.com/

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7. Happenings
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International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP'07)
Porto Alegre, Brazil
May 28-30, 2007
http://www.rsp-workshop.org/

International Conference on IC Design and Technology (ICICDT '07)
Austin, TX
May 30-June 1, 2007
http://www.icicdt.org/

Design Automation Conference (44th DAC)
San Diego, Calif
June 4-8, 2007
http://www.dac.com/

International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV '07)
Berlin, Germany
July 3-7, 2007
http://www.cav2007.org/

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EDA ALERT e-NEWSLETTER CONTACTS

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EDA Technology Editor, Electronic Design: David Maliniak
mailto:dmaliniak@penton.com

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