CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
17 August 2009
Events News
Design Automation Conference (DAC) Announces Final Attendance Numbers; Best Paper and Poster Awards, Keynote Videos on Web Also Announced
The Design Automation Conference (DAC), http://www.dac.com, announced final attendance numbers for the conference held July 26 – 31, 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The 46th DAC attracted 5,299 conference and exhibit attendees, comprising designers, researchers, developers, academics and executives from across the electronic design and design automation industries, and the entire electronic design supply chain. Including exhibitor booth staff, a total of 7,996 individuals participated in DAC this year. The exhibit floor, where 202 companies were represented, hummed with activity; the three keynote sessions were filled to capacity, and the technical sessions drew large crowds as attendees discussed the latest electronic design challenges and solutions.
Conference Attendees: 1,962
Exhibit-Only Attendees: 3,337
Booth Staff: 2,697
Total: 7,996
The 47th DAC will be held June 13 – 18, 2010 in Anaheim, Calif.
46th DAC Keynote Videos on the DAC Website
Videos of the 46th DAC Keynote presentations, synchronized with presentations, are now available for viewing on the DAC home page at http://www.dac.com free of charge, as a service to the DAC community.
46th DAC Best Paper and Best User Track Poster Awards
Of the 148 regular papers presented at the 46th DAC, seven were nominated by the technical program subcommittees for consideration for Best Paper. A special best paper selection committee, comprised of four distinguished individuals in the EDA community spanning academia, industry and geographies, reviewed the nominated papers and visited all nominee presentations. This year, the User Track was added to the DAC technical program for the first time, and a DAC Best User Track Poster award was also established. On Thursday, July 30, the following Best Paper and Best User Track Poster awards were presented:
46th DAC Best Paper Award
“A Robust and Efficient Harmonic Balance (HB) Using Direct Solution of HB Jacobian”
Amit Mehrotra - Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., Santa Clara, Calif.
Abhishek Somani - Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., Bangalore, India
46th DAC Best User Track Poster Award
“Attacking Constraint Complexity in Verification IP Reuse”
Ben Chen, Srinath Atluri, Harish Krishnamoorthy - Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, Calif.
Alex Wakefield, Balamurugan Veluchamy – Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, Calif.
46th DAC Best User Track Poster Award Honorable Mention
“Timing Closure in 65-Nanometer ASICs Using Statistical Static Timing Analysis Design Methodology”
Llewellyn Marshall, Eric Foreman - IBM Corp., Essex Junction, Vermont
“Visualizing Debugging Using Transaction Explorer in SOC System Verification”
Alicia Strang, Robert Carden IV - Marvell Semiconductor Inc., Aliso Viejo, Calif.
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