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.
Is 2008 the Year for Analog Mixed-Signal?
GS EDA has been interviewing companies to uncover whether "Is 2008 going to be the year where analog design automation moves forward and catches up with digital design automation?" While there has been a shift away from in-house proprietary solutions to design tool integration, will DAC be the turning point?
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Cost: FREE
Threads Are Dead
This DAC, Professor Wen-mei Hwu of UIUC said “Threads are dead.” There are 2 issues affecting EDA in the move to Multi-Core, Multi-Processing: first, design; this year the cost of software development, for an SoC, is passing the cost of the actual IC design. This is actually a major opportunity for EDA vendors...
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Cost: FREE
The Stickiness Factor
and Programming Models
This DAC, Professor Wen-mei Hwu of UIUC said “Threads are dead.” There are 2 issues affecting EDA in the move to Multi-Core, Multi-Processing: first, design; this year the cost of software development, for an SoC, is passing the cost of the actual IC design. This is actually a major opportunity for EDA vendors...
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Cost: FREE
DATE 2008
Congratulations DATE, you've pulled it off...becoming a major
conference for Embedded Software development, especially that pertaining to
Multi-Core/Multi-Processor systems... What was even more impressive
was...its intention of becoming a true "systems" design automation (SDA)
conference, using this year's automotive emphasis to bring mechanical design
to the table...
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Cost: FREE
A New Breed of Engineer
While there have been some complaints on the quality of education for the new EE graduates, our experience has been positive...Recently some professors have been talking about a new engineering curriculum for embedded designers… We are seeing the need for an engineering curriculum for an entirely new breed of engineer...
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Cost: FREE
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EDP 2008: Multicore, Parallel Programming and Industry Outlook
This year’s EDP conference in April focused on the continuing evolution of multi-core systems and their associated design problems. Semiconductor vendors reflected upon the difficulty of programming multicore platforms, the lack of software that could exploit the concurrency of the multicore design and the limiting nature of memory latency that holds down system speed...
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Cost: FREE
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DATE 2008
Congratulations DATE, you've pulled it off...becoming a major
conference for Embedded Software development, especially that pertaining to
Multi-Core/Multi-Processor systems... What was even more impressive
was...its intention of becoming a true "systems" design automation (SDA)
conference, using this year's automotive emphasis to bring mechanical design
to the table...
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Cost: FREE
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ASP-DAC 2008
Trip report includes discussion of Jan Rabaey (UC Berkeley) keynote address, System-Level Design versus ESL versus System Design Automation, Network on Chips, model-based ESL versus language-based ESL, F.C. Tseng (TSMC) keynote address, Semiconductor Research Consortia, and Restrictive Design Rules...
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Cost: FREE
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Why EDA is Becoming Exciting Again
This year’s DAC was a hard one to classify. However in the last year there were several panels that either questioned the meaning or existence of ESL design. Unless I missed something, there was nothing along these lines at DAC 2008. Somehow it had been replaced with an acceptance that like it or not we had entered the ESL area.
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Cost: FREE
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Research Viewpoints
GSEDA@DAC 2007 presentations and Research Viewpoints:
Went to GSEDA@DAC's event Sunday night but want to know more? Missed
DAC and want to find out what were the hot topics? Purchase all
four presentations ($1000) or for an in-depth review, purchase each
individual presentation and research viewpoint for $500.
Cost: $2,000
GSEDA@DAC: What EDA and Chip Designers
Don't Think About presentation and Research Viewpoint by
Mary Ann Olsson
What the EDA and chip designers don't think about or envision are
the critical parameters at the end of the design flow, where package
and board assembly takes place. EDA and chip designers can assign
a specific package at the model stage, but there are too many variables
that they do not adjust for that maximize the die to package and
system performance.
Cost: $500
GSEDA@DAC 2007 presentations and Research Viewpoints:
Went to GSEDA@DAC's event Sunday night but want to know more? Missed
DAC and want to find out what were the hot topics? Purchase all
four presentations ($1000) or for an in-depth review, purchase each
individual presentation and research viewpoint for $500.
Cost: $2,000
GSEDA@DAC:
The Crises in Concurrent Programming or Preparing for Multicore
presentation and Research Viewpoint by Daya Nadamuni
Programming multicore devices requires good insight into parallel
programming methodologies and techniques. While parallel programming
is understood in theory, it is not very prevalent in the mainstream
application development arena as most parallel programmes are confined
to highly data intensive applications such as weather forecasting
and very large scale control systems. However, with leading semiconductor
and system vendors trying to grow their multicore platforms businesses,
it is becoming clear that good programming models are very necessary
to help their platforms to succeed in the marketplace. This poses
a tremendous challenge to both the design community and the design
tools vendors as they stand on the brink of the move to a new market
paradigm.
Cost: $500
GSEDA@DAC:
Multicore Processor Considerations in Modern Day SoC Designs
presentation and Research Viewpoint by Tom Starnes
Modern SoC designs no longer use just a single general-purpose RISC
processor, but may utilize a number of processor elements. Multiple
processors on-chip further complicate the chip design, forcing design
tools to expand their reach even further. Software development tools
must not only integrate programs developed for the variety of processors
used but debug them with the hardware all buried on-chip. Ultimately,
the performance of the end-system is directly linked to the processors
chosen, the effectiveness of structures in the chip to support them,
and the integration of the software that runs on all those processors.
Examples of current chips demonstrate the complexity of processors
in use.
Cost: $500
What To See @ DAC 2007:
There have been a lot of questions about just what this list is
and…isn’t… The reason for this list is to give engineers a way of
identifying the important new tools being shown at DAC… “How can
you leave this tool off of the list, everybody is using it?”…The
list is Software, Software, Software, DFM and Power [and more]…
Purchase of the Research Viewpoint includes the presentation that was delivered on June 4th in the DAC Pavilion. You will receive the presentation Monday afternoon…
Cost: $500
GSEDA@DAC:
Alive and Well But Software Challenged
presentation and Research Viewpoint
by Gary Smith
The design world is changing. With those changes the EDA Vendors customers are looking for the EDA Industry to help them with the number one problem in design today: the embedded software design problem.
Cost: $500
GSEDA@DAC:
Multicore Processor Considerations in Modern Day SoC Designs
presentation and Research Viewpoint by Tom Starnes
GSEDA@DAC:
What EDA and Chip Designers Don't Think About
presentation and Research Viewpoint by Mary Ann Olsson
GSEDA@DAC:
The Crises in Concurrent Programming or Preparing for Multicore
presentation and Research Viewpoint by Daya Nadamuni
GSEDA@DAC:
Alive and Well But Software Challenged
presentation and Research Viewpoint by Gary Smith
purchase ALL four presentations
Cost: $1,000
The Texas Surprise:
The consolidation of the semiconductor industry has been a hot topic
for at least five years. Although this consolidation has usually
referred to the elimination of the IDM model, it actually is the
consolidation of those semiconductor companies that fabricate silicon
products. Today that means IDMs and foundry vendors...
Cost: $500
ESL Wallchart 2007:
ESL: Year Three And Counting: The idea of ESL has been around since
the early 1990s...the imminent arrival of the "magic green
button"...The methodology to put these [3rd generation] tools in
place didn't really exist and the tools were mostly point solutions.
The current generation of ESL tools though shows more promise...
Cost: $500
EDA Wallcharts 2007:
The EDA Wallcharts go back to the mid 1980s. Originally called “Who’s
Who in EDA,” they grew from a simple one page spreadsheet…. To get
a broader look at the trends below is a graph of new vendors appearing
in the Wallchart, Mergers and Acquisition and vendors leaving EDA
over the past ten years…
Cost: $500
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Industry Notes
ASP-DAC 2008
Trip report includes discussion of Jan Rabaey (UC Berkeley) keynote address, System-Level Design versus ESL versus System Design Automation, Network on Chips, model-based ESL versus language-based ESL, F.C. Tseng (TSMC) keynote address, Semiconductor Research Consortia, and Restrictive Design Rules....
Cost: FREE
DAC #44 - the Pivotal DAC
Hopefully this is the turning point ...mood was up...disappointment was the lack of software engineers...we may have a terminology problem...What we are trying to solve is parallel processing problems; the multi-core, or really multi-processing in general programming problem...
Cost: FREE
EDP 2007:
EDP (Electronic Design Processes Workshop) is the conference for design methodology and there have been instances of large semiconductor companies changing their research and, in some cases, methodology based on what was said at an EDP conference. EDP 2007, as usual, showcased the most pressing problems in electronic design today: Power, DFM, and Multi-core programmability...
Cost: FREE
Investment in the CAD EDA industry
The news that NXP might be pulling out of the Crolles2 alliance with ST Microelectronics and other partners brings up some interesting questions...
Cost: FREE
ICCAD
The 2006 International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) featured a panel session “CAD Research: Pay Now or Pay Later”. The panel presenters were tasked with addressing various issues about the CAD EDA industry. Some of the most important issues...
Cost: FREE
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