DAC starts this weekend. So what should you go to? I'll tell you what my plans are. Of course, my job is largely to find interesting things to write about here, which is probably very different from your job. So you can't just take this list and run with it. But here are lots of things that I have put on my list. Sunday Register. Do it mid-afternoon when it is quiet. Don't think about trying to do it on Monday morning. Gary Smith EDA kickoff, 5:00-5:30pm, ballroom G in the convention center. Followed by DAC Welcome Reception from 5:30-7:00pm in the 4th floor foyer. Don't try and eat. Locusts will descend and the food lines will be insanely long and the food will run out quickly. Plan on having dinner later. But this is the all-time EDA networking event. Monday 9:15-10:00am in ballroom A, Lars Reger of NXP Germany gives the opening keynote on Revolution Ahead—What It Takes to Enable Securely-Connected Self-Driving Cars . 10:30-11:00am in the pavilion (on the exhibit floor). If you missed Gary Smith EDA on Sunday night, it repeats on Monday morning. 12:00-1:30pm Cadence lunch on Seamlessly Connected Verification Engines . If you aren't going to that, at the pavilion from 1:00-1:30pm, there is a SKY talk on electronic-brain interfaces. 2:00-2:45pm at the pavilion, Lucio Lanza heads up a panel on Daring to Move to Open Source . 3:00-4:00pm in room 9BC, Cooley's DAC troublemaker panel. Anirudh Devgan represents Cadence, Synopsys is a no-show. 4:30-5:00pm at the pavilion, iSuppli does a hoverboard teardown 6:00-7:00pm see the DAC art show in the Trinity Street foyer. 7:30-11:30pm in the Speakeasy, the annual Heart of Technology (HOT) party for the benefit of CASA of Travis County Tuesday 9:00-9:20am in ballroom A, ex-Cadence fellow Lou Scheffer gives a keynote on Learning From Life: Biologically Inspired Electronic Design . 9:20-10:00am in ballroom A, a second keynote, from Sameer Halepete of NVIDIA on Driving the Next Decade in Visual and Accelerated Computing . 12:00-1:30pm in ballroom D, the CEDA lunch in honor of McCluskey who died in February (you may remember the Quine-McCluskey algorithm from university, that's him). 1:00-1:30pm in the pavilion, a SKY talk on RISC-V. by Krste Asanovic. If you don't know what RISC-V is, you need to learn. It could be the microprocessor equivalent of the next Linux. 2:00-2:45pm in the pavilion, a panel moderated by Jim Hogan on safety and reliability in autonomous vehicles. 4:00-4:30 in the pavilion. Today's teardown is a drone. 8:00-12:30am in Maggie Mae's. The annual Denali Party. Wednesday 9:00-10:00am in ballroom A, a keynote from Mark Papermaster on The Challenge to Develop Truly Great Products . He is now at AMD but he was Mr iPhone at Apple. So shouldn't that be "insanely" great products. 11:30-12:15 at the pavilion, Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Cadence, interviewed by Ed Sperling 12:00-1:30pm in ballroom BC, Cadence lunch on 5 Ways to Boost Your Productivity Designing Custom With Advanced Nodes . Or 1-1.30pm at the pavilion a SKY talk from Bryan Payne of Netflix on Security at Different Layers of Abstraction . 1:30-3:00 in ballroom F, a session chaired by Jian Li of Huawei on Optimizing Mobile User Experience by All Layers of the System Stack , with invited talks from TSMC, Mediatek and ARM. 2:00-2:45 at the pavilion, Jim Turley on Designing for IoT . 4:30-5:00pm at the pavilion, today's teardown is an Apple device of some sort (they did the Apple Watch last year, so probably not that). Thursday I leave on Wednesday night so I won't actually be going to anything on Thursday. There used to be no reason to stay but there looks to be good stuff this year. Thursday is mostly training day. But first a keynote, 9:10-10:00am in ballroom A, Peter Stone of UT Austin on Learning and Multi-Agent Reasoning for Autonomous Robots . Training on C++, mental agility, security and more. More Presentations every half hour in the Cadence Theater, the Expert Bar will be open the whole time the exhibits are open, and more—Find out everything that is happening in booth 107 on the Cadence DAC webpage . And take a look at the big matrix of all DAC events on the DAC website. Previous: Inside Secure Writes the Book on IoT Security for Dummies![]()
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