ELECTRONIC DESIGN PROCESSES (EDP) 2009 PROGRAM

APRIL 9th-10th, 2009

MONTEREY BEACH HOTEL, MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA

The Electronic Design Processes (EDP) Workshop, now in its 16th year, fosters the free exchange of ideas among the top thinkers, movers, and shakers who focus on how chips and systems are designed in the electronics industry. It provides a forum for this cross-section of the Design community to discuss state-of-the-art improvements to electronics design processes and CAD methodologies, rather than on the functions of the individual tools themselves.

The workshop, which took place in Monterey, California, emphasized both the here and now and the future. Attendees of this elite workshop have met each year since 1993. It has attracted some of the most far-seeing people in electronics as speakers. If you need to know where the industry is and where it's going with respect to the design and development, you should consider attending next year.

Please visit http://www.eda.org/edps to see the list of past EDP Workshop speakers and presentations:  2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000.


Use the following search tool to help lookup things in the past workshops by pasting in http://www.eda.org/edps

 

THEMES IN 2009: Threads, RTL Handoff, Analog Revolution, and other Advanced Topics:  

The Workshop included papers and presentations in special sessions and panels that shed light on methodologies used for real current and future chip and system designs. 

 

Our main topics for 2009 were as follows:

    Are Threads Dead?

    Challenges of RTL Handoff

    Will We Miss the Bus?

    Is the Analog Revolution Really Here?  (User Perspectives on Analog Tools)

 

See the CFP for more details on the above themes and requirements for authors and paper submissions for the EDPS 2009 Workshop:
    http://www.eda.org/edps/edp09/edp09-cfp.pdf

 

News that was posted on the internet about the EDPS 2009 Workshop:

 - Gary Smith:  http://www10.edacafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=670956

 - Karen Bartleson: http://synopsysoc.org/thestandardsgame/?p=228

 - Steven Leibson: http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=blogPreview&blog_id=980000298&blog_post_id=1320041932

 - Grant Martin: http://www.chipdesignmag.com/martins/2009/03/12/electronic-design-its-a-process-come-discuss-it/

 - Gabe Moretti: http://www.gabeoneda.com/node/69

 - Peggy Aycinena: http://www10.edacafe.com/EVENT/index.php

 

 

EDPS 2009 Symposium Program:

Speaker

Affiliation

Title/Area of Talk

Thursday, April 9, 2009
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM:  Continental Breakfast & Welcome 

Hosts: Gary Smith & Dwight Hill

Keynote Address - 9:00am - 9:45 am

Threads are Dead!  Long Live Threads!  
Chris Malachowsky, NVIDIA
9:45 - 10:00am:   Break

10:00am - 12:30:  Session:   Are Threads Dead?

Session Chair:
Gary Smith

Chris Malachowsky, NVIDIA
 Threads are Dead!  Long Live Threads!
Forget what you know about threads and specialized hw accelerators! CUDA brings a new reality to high performance computing that is too compelling to be ignored.		 Presentation
Bio
John Murphy,
Liga Systems
 		Threads are Dead!  Practical Realities Presentation
Bio
Patrick Madden,
SUNY Binghamton
 How to get 500X or more Speedup on you Parallel System While Reducing Software Development Costs. Presentation
Bio
Ramesh Narayanaswamy
Synopsys
 Threads are a Necessary Evil? Bio

Panel: (30 minutes)

12:30 - 2:30pm:   Lunch
Lunch Discussion: TBD

 2:30pm - 5:00pm:  Session 2:  Will We Miss the Bus?

Session Organizer: Steve Leibson

Jay Jayasimha, Sonics
 No, And We Shouldn't!  Putting It All Together the Sonics Way Presentation
Bio
Karam Chatha,
ASU
Charlie Janac,
Arteris
 Why is it Time to Get off the Bus? (At the Top Level) Paper
Presentation
Bio
Dave Fritz,
Silistix
 Get off the Bus - Drive a Hybrid!  (Invest in Green Interconnect.) Presentation
Bio
Brani Buric,
Virage

Panel: (30 minutes)

6:00 pm:   Cocktail Hour - The Yacht Club

7:00 pm: The Yacht Club 

EDPS Banquet Dinner

Host:  Dwight Hill

8:00pm: Dinner Keynote
Paul Mclellan:
The EDA Graffiti System Challenges (Presentation , Bio)

Friday, April 10, 2009

8:30am - 9:00 am:  Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:45 am:  Keynote:

The Parallelism Mirage
Patrick Groeneveld, Magma

9:45 am - 10:00 am:  Break

10:00 am - 12:30 pm:   Session:  The Challenge of RTL Handoff

   Session Chair and Organizer:
Aparna Dey

Gary Smith,
GarySmithEDA
 The Disappearing Upper Mainstream Presentation
Bernard Murphy, Atrenta
 RTL Handoff -
Why? & How?		 Presentation
Bio

Panel:  (30 minutes)

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm:   Lunch

1:30 pm - 2:30pm:  Session

Advanced Topics
David Abercrombie,
Mentor

Restrictive Design Rules and Their Impact on 22 nm Design and Physical Verification
 Paper
Presentation
Marc Swinnen, Azuro Clock Concurrent Optimization - Rethinking Timing Optimization to Target Clocks and Logic at the Same Time Whitepaper
Presentation - Handout
David Abercrombie, Mentor Automated DRC Violation Waiver Management for IP Block Integration Presentation

2:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Session:  

Is the SOC Analog Revolution Really Here?
(User Perspective on Analog tools)

Organizer:  Juan-Antonia Carballo, IBM Venture Capital
Presentation: Analog Automation, The Ever Coming Revolution

Session Chair and Moderator:
Henry Chang, Designers Guide Consulting Bio

Henry Chang Designer's Guide
Eric Filseth Ciranova Presentation: Is the SoC Analog (EDA) Revolution Really Here?
Mar Hershenson Magma
Tom Doyle Cadence

Panel Discussion  (30 minutes)

5:00pm: Closing Remarks

Organizing Committee:

General Chair:  Gary Smith

Technical Program Chair:  Dwight Hill

Program Committee:

Michael Bohm (AccelChip)

Aparna Dey, EDA Consultant
                 		Steve Leibson (Tensilica)

Takahide Inoue (STARC)

Andrew B. Kahng (UCSD)
              		José Augusto Lima (U. of Minho) 

Gabe Moretti (Gabe on EDA)

Naresh Sehgal (Intel)
                    		Kumar Venkatramani (SoftJin)

Sandeep Shukla (Virginia Tech)

Gary Smith (GarySmithEDA)
 		Bill Halpin (Synplicity)

Bhanu Kapoor (Mimasic)

Patrick Madden (SUNY Binghamton)
     		Igor Markov (U. of Michigan)

Elaheh Bozorgzadeh (UCI)

Juan-Antonio Carballo (IBM)
   		Laleh Behjat (U. of Calgary)

Steve Grout (Consultant)

Dwight Hill (Synopsys)
                   		Patrick Groeneveld (Magma)
 

Grant Martin (Tensilica)
  

John Lillis (UIC)
    		Matthew Guthaus (UCSC)