Gary Smith EDA Consulting in Electronic Design

Gary Smith EDA (GSEDA) is the leading provider of market intelligence and advisory services for the global Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Electronic System Level (ESL) design, and related technology markets.

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Industry Notes are short summaries of events that will affect the electronics design world.

DAC 2010 – The Turn-a-Round DAC

This year’s DAC had the right mix of Exhibits, Panels, Technical Sessions and attendees for emerging Electronic System Design (and ESL) Market. Attendance was high quality. Other topics: 3DICs, Peggy, Gadi Singer, Wallcharts and the electric cart experiment.
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Cost: FREE

The First Honest FPGA Pitch

Ok, so maybe I’m exaggerating, but Moshe’s (Xilinx) keynote at SNUG was certainly the first one I’ve seen. In the 1980s, the FPGA marketing establishment started exaggerating their capabilities. Moshe put an end to the exaggerated marketing claims because at 45nm an FPGA had enough gates to do true SoC designs.
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DATE 2010: a Missed Opportunity for ESL Vendors

DATE 2010 was a pleasant surprise and success. The venue was good; the technical conference was excellent; attendance was high quality with the continued shift to Systems and Embedded engineers and the show floor was busy. ‘Why was the show floor so poorly attended by ESL vendors?’ Poor EDA marketing
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2009年亞太地區電子設計自動化會議

2009年，在日本橫濱舉行的第十四屆亞太地區電子設計自動化會議，內容相當活潑，技術成果的發表也十分傑出。
Cost: FREE

ARM TechCon: Is Cloud Computing Just A Dream and Intel vs. ARM

Tom Starnes had an interesting panel at ARM Techcon this year. The topic of the panel was Cloud Computing but at the end the conversation turned into a look at the competitive battle between Intel and ARM.
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DAC 2009 - The Congeniality DAC

DAC is back. What was most evident was that the sense of community has returned...Social media, Sunday night, my favorite panel, Conference review.
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What To See at DAC List

15th annual list of 'must see' products at the 47th DAC 2010. To post / reprint the list and/or use GSEDA logo, purchase the RV for $500. View the List for Free.
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EDP 2010 – A Look at the Future of IC Design

This is a Methodologist’s Conference where presenters come in and present their ideas, not necessarily their conclusions, and then let the audience critique their approach. This makes for a rambunctious program. This year’s topics included: What Comes After CMOS and 3D-ICs.
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Intel & TSMC: A Bad Deal

This was a bad idea to begin with. The only one that had anything to gain was TSMC. By trying to mimic the ARM model, Intel would have only cannibalized their own revenue stream. Intel cannot have it both ways (IDM and Fabless.) This is not a fight to the death.
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Mentor Buys Valor

Mentor’s acquisition of Valor reflects an increasing verticalization of the PCB design to manufacturing market. PCB is one of the most mature segments of the EDA industry. Where it once accounted for the largest segment of EDA revenue, it now represents less than 10% of total EDA revenue.
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Hot Chips and the Future of Computing

Something was different at Hot Chips this year, significantly different: Parallel Computing. The IC industry's shift from single processor computing to multi-core has moved us away from the Von Neumann compute model to a undefined model... endangering Moore's Law.
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Missing the Point

Two acquisitions (Synfora- Esterel; Apache– Sequence) have been taken by some people as a continuation of the asset acquisitions we’ve been seeing recently. This is a continuation of the Gloom and Doom school of thought. Looks like some people are missing the point.
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