FROM
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This week, we delve into the domain of digital design automation with the approach of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference. This year, expect signs of a transition in the venerable industry, from fulfilling the requirements of yesterday's engineering problems to addressing the challenges posed by the new realities of semiconductor technology. The EDA industry, which has driven design to keep up with the staggering pace of semiconductor fabrication, is due for a makeover, and this year's DAC just might help show us the industry's new direction.
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DAC Previsited
Dawn of the Design Tool Decade
Exactly 299 days before "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits" was published in Electronics Magazine, the first workshop of the SHARE Design Automation Project was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The SHARE workshop had papers with titles like "A method for the best geometric placement of units on a plane" and "Design automation effects on the organization." The magazine article began with the statement "The future of integrated electronics is the future of electronics itself."
With such generic paper titles and such an auspicious article intro, what has transpired since then that has inexorably linked those two seemingly obscure technical publication events? Pretty much everything.
15,071 days later (this coming Monday, in fact,) the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference (DAC) will kick-off in San Francisco, California. [more]
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