Gary Smith EDA at EDAC Kickoff Sunday Night

Sunday June 1
Time: 5:00-5:30 pm
Location: Intercontinental Hotel Grand Ballroom A
833 Howard Street
Cross of 5th, connected to Moscone
San Francisco, CA

Gary kicks off the annual EDAC reception.
Come hear the 25th annual update on the state of EDA by Gary.

The New World of Electronics
Gary Smith
This year's talk will focus on how the world of Electronics is changing dramatically. This is having a severe impact on the semiconductor companies. Their response is causing major changes in the EDA industry. The annual EDA forecast also will be shared.


EDAC reception immediately follows.

What's Hot at DAC, Gary Smith?
Monday, June 2
Time:10:15-11:15 am
Location: Booth #313, DAC Pavilion Theatre
Introduction by Bob Gardner, EDA Consortium, Executive Director

For eternity, one man has kept his eye on the semiconductor/EDA industry’s past, present and future. Once a year he gazes in his crystal ball and predicts what tools and technologies, and more importantly, which companies and the people behind them, will be worth watching. People follow Twitter feeds to identify trends; he forecasts trends that will feed [email protected]!



As tradition, the panel will start with a musical opening. Enjoy last year's music below.

Monday June 2
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Location: Room 236/238

Come watch the EDA troublemakers answer the edgy, user-submitted questions about this year's most controversial issues! 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:
- Joe Sawicki, Mentor Graphics Corporation
- Anirudh Devgan, Cadence Design Systems
- Dean Draco, IC Manage, Inc.
- Amit Gupta, Solido Design Automation
- Isadore Katz, CLK Design Automation
- Jim Hogan, Vista Ventures LLC
- Gary Smith, Gary Smith EDA

DAC Info

Wedneday June 4
Time: 1:00-2:15 pm
Location: Room 252/254/256

Jim will 1) introduce the topic; 2) spur, moderate, provoke discussion and 3) sum up what we’ve learned during this session. Of course, this group of speakers are pretty opinionated and won’t need much provocation.

What will this slate of opinionmakers talk about?

We all know the IoT is coming. But how will it affect EDA/IP technology and what do we need to do to provide tools and technology for these IoT device designers? In the end, we’d like to think that our discussion will help us answer how we get to the IoT.

Moderator:
- Jim Hogan, Vista Ventures LLC

Panelists:
- Bernard Murphy, CTO, Atrenta
- Frank Schirrmeister, Group Director, System Development Suite, Cadence
- Gary Smith, Market Analyst, GSEDA
- Randy Smith, VP of Marketing, Sonics

Please RSVP to Liz Massingill, [email protected]
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