Category: Conferences

The Design Automation Conference, being held this week in San Francisco, seems a subdued affair from those a few years ago.  This year, I am helping a friend man the FTL booth due to the scheduled person coming down with the dreaded swine flu.  Although I have walked around and seen al the other booths,… Continue reading Tuesday at DAC

The 46th annual Design Automation conference takes place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco July 27-30.  It will be the 20th conference for me and I have to admit I am not as excited about going as I was in the early ’90s. Back then it was a much broader conference with papers about… Continue reading It’s DAC Time Again

This year’s attendance at Denali’s MemCon seems at least as big as last year’s.  I don’t have actual numbers but the presentation hall was nearly full – and it is a big hall. Phase Change Memory I found the first two presentations to be the most interesting.  The first was by Ed Doller, the CTO… Continue reading Tuesday at MemCon

I was able to spend a third day (Wednesday) at the Embedded Systems Conference before more pressing work caught up with me.  It was a very busy show with roughly 175 presentations and 230 exhibitors.  Here are the primary impressions I took away: Energy harvesting, the ability to extract energy from the ambient environment, is… Continue reading Embedded Systems Conference – Follow Up

Tuesday was an even busier day at the embedded systems conference in San Jose , California.  Here are some of the most interesting things I saw: Synapse held a press conference to announce partnerships with Panasonic and CEL.  Synapse has products in the mesh networks space that include RF modules, the SNAPconnect protocol and the… Continue reading Embedded Systems Conference – Day 2