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What To See at DAC 2012 will be available at each event.

Gary Smith EDA Sunday Night at DAC
Sunday June 3
Time: 7:00-8:00 pm
Location: Marriott Hotel, Salon 6

Right next door to the EDAC reception in Salon 7.
Come hear the 24th annual update on the state of EDA by Gary.

How to Achieve 44% Design Cost Reduction
Gary Smith and Sharon Tan
This year's talk will focus on multi-platform designs and how these platforms are dramatically cutting the cost of design.

No refreshments will be served. No need to register.



DAC Pavillion Panel
Gary Smith on EDA: Trends and What's Hot at DAC
Monday June 4
Time: 9:15-10:15 am
Location: Booth #310, DAC Pavillion Theatre
Introduction by Bob Gardner, EDAC Executive Director

Longtime EDA analyst Gary Smith of Gary Smith EDA will give us his take on the EDA's hottest technology trends. How will the dramatic changes in EDA, the semiconductor market and the design community affect you? What are the hot 'must sees' at this year's conference? Find out here!

This year’s panel will start with some blues music by The Full Disclosure Blues Band Revisited with Gary, Bob Gardner (EDAC), Carten Elgert (Evatronix), and Mike Santarini (Xilinx) and Kevin Steptoe. Kick start your Monday at DAC!




Design and IP Management Symposium
Monday June 4
Time: 1:30-2:30 pm
Location: DAC conference room #200

Panelists will discuss development goals, the Design and IP Management methodologies and best practices they use to support those goals, and the results achieved. Topics to include productivity improvements, bug management, and multi-site data exchange and collaboration. Audience Q&A to follow panel discussion.

Panelists:
Gary Smith - Chief Analyst, Gary Smith EDA
Shiv Sikand - VP, IC Manage
Doug Quist -  Director, NVIDIA
Jacob Rael - Director, Broadcom
Vincent Ross -  CAD Architect, AMD

DAC info
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Cooley’s Troublemaker Panel
Monday June 4
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Location: DAC conference room #256

Come watch EDA vendors squirm as they answer no-holds-barred, edgy, user-submitted questions about their businesses and tools (that Synopsys and Cadence chickened out on answering!) It’s an old style open Q&A from the days before corporate marketing took over every aspect of EDA company images.

Moderator:
John Cooley - DeepChip.com founder

Panelists:
Doug Aitelli - VP, IC Manage
Lauro Rizzatti -  Director, NVIDIA
Ravi Subramanian - Director, Broadcom
Yunshan Zhu -  CAD Architect, AMD
Jim Hogan - Investor, Vista Ventures LLC
Gary Smith - Chief Analyst, Gary Smith EDA

DAC info
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Designer Panel – Interactive Keynote Q & A Session
Wednesday June 6
Time: 1:30-3:00 pm
Location: DAC conference room #106

This special session is an interactive follow-up to the morning keynotes by Joshua Friedrich (IBM) and Brad Heaney (Intel). Senior leaders from both design teams will sit for a moderated Q/A panel session with the audience. The first half of the session will be with the IBM team; the second half will be with the Intel team. Take advantage of this unusual opportunity!

Moderator:
Gary Smith - Chief Analyst, Gary Smith EDA

Panelists:
Joshua Friedrich - Sr Member Technical Staff, IBM Server and Technology Group
Viresh Paruthi - IBM Server and Technology Group
Stephen Shuma - IBM Server and Technology Group
Brad Heaney - Architecture Group Project Manager, Intel
Madhu Ponnada - Intel
Rama Ramakrishnan - Intel
Artour Levin - Intel
Omar Malik - Intel

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