Mentor at DAC 2020 : A Virtual Experience
Mentor, a Siemens Business is a Platinum Sponsor for this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC). The 57th Design Automation Conference (DAC) executive committee, together with ACM and IEEE, have decided to move DAC 2020 to a virtual event format scheduled for July 20 – 24, 2020.
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier conference for design and automation of electronic systems. DAC offers outstanding training, education, exhibits and superb networking opportunities for designers, researchers, tool developers and vendors.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM SCHEDULE
- Monday:
Monday July 20, 11:00am – 11:45am | DAC Pavilion
Speaker: Wally Rhines – Mentor, A Siemens Business
In this session, Dr. Rhines will provide an update on the electronics industry and discuss future directions for EDA. He will also throw light on systems companies including automotive, aerospace and data center companies, and how they have continued their move into the world of IC design.
Monday July 20, 01:30pm -03:00pm | Designer Track Paper Presentation | *Best Paper Nominee
Authors: Joe Hupcey III – ICVS Product Manager, Mentor, A Siemens Business | Jeremy Levitt – Principal Enginer – ICVS, Mentor, A Siemens Business
This presentation will throw light on how formal and static methods continue to be a critical and growing part of verification. The first half of this session will present new techniques in this area for deadlock verification, finite state machine checks, and reset domain crossing (RDC) challenges. The second half of this session will present some new ideas for effective UVM-based simulation.
- Tuesday:
Tuesday July 21, 01:30pm – 03:00pm | Designer Track Presentation
Chair: Dave Rich – Product Manager, ICVS – Mentor, A Siemens Business
Power consumption continues to be a critical issue in any modern design. The first half of this session will present a variety of new techniques related to low-power design and validation. Another topic that has taken the industry by storm in recent years is the revolutionary open-source RISC-V ISA. In the second half of this session, we will discuss some new ideas in design and validation related to this architecture.
2. Silicon Bug Hunt with “Deep Sea Fishing” Formal Verification Methodology
Tuesday July 21, 07:30am – 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation
Speaker: Ping Yeung – Mentor, A Siemens Business
Presenters: Ping Yeung – Mentor, A Siemens Business, Joe Hupcey III – ICVS Product Manager, Mentor, A Siemens Business
Tuesday July 21, 07:30am – 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation
Author: Kurt Takara – Mentor, A Siemens Business, Fremont CA
4. Effective High-Level Synthesis Flow for ISP Hardware Design Performance and Area Optimization
Tuesday July 21, 07:30am – 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation
Speaker: William Lee – Mentor, A Siemens Business, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
Author: William Lee – Mentor, A Siemens Business, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
5. Functional Safety Island – As Easy as Palm Trees and Cocktails
Tuesday July 21, 07:30am – 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation
Speaker: Lee C. Harrison – Mentor, A Siemens Business, United Kingdom
Author: Lee C. Harrison – Mentor, A Siemens Business, United Kingdom
6. Accelerating Early Design Physical Verification Cycle
Tuesday July 21, 07:30am – 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation
Authors: Nermeen Hossan – Mentor, A Siemens Business, Egypt | Bhavani Prasad – Mentor, A Siemens Business, Bangalore, India
7. Improving Transition-Coverage Cycle Time with a Declarative Description
Tuesday July 21, 07:30am – 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation
Authors: Ammar Ahmad – Mentor, A Siemens Business | Matthew Ballance, Mentor, A Siemens Business
8. Cross Products Hotspot Detection with Calibre SONR: A Machine Learning Technique
Tuesday July 21, 07:30am – 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation
Authors: Yuansheng Ma, Juli Optiz, Rui Wu, Le Hong, Liang Cao, Dingyi Hong, Joerg Mellmann, Yuyang Sun, James Word – Mentor, A Siemens Business
9. Rapid Adoption of Full-Chip Hierarchical CDC Analysis
Tuesday July 21, 07:30am – 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation
Authors: Kurt Takara – Mentor, A Siemens Business
- Wednesday:
Wednesday, July 22, 3:30pm – 5:00pm | Designer Track Paper Presentation
Speaker: Joe Kwan, Product Marketing Manager, Mentor, A Siemens Business
Authors: Joe Kwan, Wael Elmanhawy, Aliaa Kabeel, Sarah Rizk, Mohamed Ismail, Kareem Madkour – Mentor, A Siemens Business
- Thursday:
Thursday, July 23, 3:30pm – 4:30pm | Panel
Panelist: Bryan Bowyer – Mentor, A Siemens Business
This panel celebrates the success of high-level synthesis as an important tool in CAD. High-level synthesis originated with research in the 1970s; a steady stream of innovation from both academic and industrial researchers paved the way for today’s successful HLS tools.
Mentor Booth
The booth features several videos covering Mentor’s news from DAC: three new technology announcements and a quick overview of the recent UltraSoC acquisition. There’s also a chat window where you can ask Mentor experts questions and there’s a feature that allows you to request meetings with Mentor representatives.
Because we can’t have coffee with you in person, for visiting Mentor’s booth you will receive a $5 Starbucks card (limited to one per person) via email shortly. Additionally, you will automatically be entered into our drawing for a Yeti 20oz Rambler/Tumbler simply by watching a video or engaging in a chat.*
*To qualify, you must be registered with a company email. Winners will be notified by email. Please note the drawing excludes competitors and Mentor employees; the coffee cards are only available while supplies last; and the Yeti prizes can only be shipped to addresses within the USA.
All of our designer track poster presentations will occur on Tuesday morning (July 21) apart from our designer track paper presentations on Tuesday, Monday & Wednesday (July 21 – 23). Attendees will also have the chance to enter to win some great prizes!
You can view the complete list of all our technical sessions and register here:
