ED_EDA Alert Update_: A Mid-Year Check On The Optimism Meter
EDA Alert e-Newsletter | July 1, 2008
If you haven't seen our video coverage, you don't know DAC
Editor David Maliniak chatted with leading companies like Mentor, Agilent, Synopsys plus the latest from CoFluent, OneSpin and CLK. More than 20 video segments are available to fill you in on what you missed!
Six months ago, I predicted that emulation would be a bright spot within the EDA industry in 2008. Who could have guessed back then that our little world would be upended with the announcement of an astonishing attempt to merge two industry giants, both of whom have emulation products? My optimism remains intact, however.
Last week's 45th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim was my twelfth consecutive DAC, and it was surely the most interesting and different I've experienced in journalistic terms. Yeah, that was me traipsing around the show floor with my colleague Damian Mendez in tow, toting a great big video camera. It was my first experience in documenting DAC in video, and I would term it a success.
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The Berkeley Aerobotics group is expanding its research scope into the advanced control and coordination of fixed-wing UAVs. Leveraging on their expertise, experiences, and thoroughly investigated flight control software from the rotary wing cousins, BEAR group has created a fully autonomous UAV platform, the SmartBATS (Single Man Aerial Reconnaissance Technology-Battlefield Assessment Telewing).
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Everyone expects continuing consolidation in the EDA industry, but no one expected it on the scale aspired to by Cadence Design Systems when it publicized its unsolicited attempt to acquire Mentor Graphics Corp.
In an effort to address the challenges of verifying wireless ICs implemented in advanced CMOS processes, Cadence has added the "turbo" technology it recently brought to the Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator to its RF analysis capabilities.
Partnership Yields Concurrent Mechanical and PCB Design
In a partnership with Dassault Systèmes, Zuken has launched Board Interchanger, an integrative add-on tool for true concurrent mechanical and printed-circuit board (PCB) design. With it, MCAD engineers gain interactive access to Zuken’s board design-data interface within Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA V5 tools for virtual design by linking to CR-5000 Board Designer, providing seamless integration with other workbenches.
Through an enhancement to inFact, Mentor Graphics’ intelligent testbench automation tool, large simulations can be automatically distributed across up to 1000 CPUs, extending non-redundant sequence generation to entire simulation server farms.
Speedo and Ansys used computer modeling software to develop a new record-breaking swimsuit. What effect will this and other technology have on the upcoming Olympics?
Technology gives too large an advantage to wealthy nations.
Technology levels the playing field for all athletes.
Technology is irrelevant, as the athletes still have to perform.
Technology diminishes the significance of the athletes' performance.
Click here to take the poll. Remember to scroll down; the poll is at the bottom of the page.
If you haven't seen our video coverage, you don't know DAC
Editor David Maliniak chatted with leading companies like Mentor, Agilent, Synopsys plus the latest from CoFluent, OneSpin and CLK. More than 20 video segments are available to fill you in on what you missed!
Each chapter of Inside Steve’s Brain explores a different facet of what’s made Jobs and Apple (not to mention Pixar) so successful: organizational genius, perfectionism, elitism, despotism, passion, inventiveness. It also looks at some of the traits that have made him a legend in Silicon Valley.
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