( ESNUG 502 Item 7 ) -------------------------------------------- [04/19/12]
From: John Busco <jbusco=user domain=nvidia got calm>
Subject: Silicon Valley SNUG 2012 Trip Report, Welcome Magma, Best Papers
Hi John,
SNUG San Jose 2012 just wrapped up and, as Chair of the Technical Committee,
I'd like to share a recap with your ESNUG readers.
Attendance:
2010 : : ######################################### 2070
2011 : : ################################################ 2375
2012 : : ################################################ 2350
SNUG remains the biggest EDA user group meeting. This year it had 45 user
papers presented, along with 39 tutorials, 4 panels and 3 daily keynotes.
With the recently closed LAVA acquisition, we made it a point to put:
"WELCOME MAGMA USERS"
everywhere, but due to its last minute nature, we couldn't add a Magma track
in this SNUG. Not enough time.
You might note the name change of "San Jose SNUG" to "Silicon Valley SNUG".
Since we haven't met in San Jose for several years, we've gone with a more
globally recognized name for the region.
The attendees voted these Best Paper Awards:
First Place - Milind Sonawane, Jonathon Colburn, Amit Sanghani - Nvdia
"Optimizing Test Times using a Scan Deserializer/Serializer"
Second Place - Adrian Evans, Julius Yam, Craig Forward - Cisco Systems
"X-Propagation, An Alternative to Gate Level Simulation"
Third Place - Koduri, Oks, Gangopadhyay, Pillai - Samsung
"Developing and Implementing a Flip Chip Interface using IC Compiler"
Tech Committee Award - Jatin Mistry, U. Southampton, James Myers, ARM
"An ARM Cortex-M0 for Energy Harvesting Systems with UPF"
I was please to see award winners coming from a mix of Test, Verification,
Implementation, and Low Power. All areas were represented at SNUG'12.
Aart's keynote on Monday was his usual "State of EDA" address. He welcomed
the Magma users to SNUG. His talk was on "scale complexity" and "systemic
complexity", plus 20 nm and 3D IC challenges. Aart closed his speech with
some personal stories about SNPS because it's their 25th anniversary. One
user asked about Extreme Goldtime's furture. Aart answered it'll be inside
PrimeTime by Q4. Some users on the side had questions concerning the fate
of specific tools from the Magma acquisition, but nothing was announced.
John Cornish of ARM spoke on Tuesday stressing mobile, power, "big.LITTLE"
computing and advanced development systems.
Prof. Chenming Hu of UC Berkeley & TSMC spoke on Wednesday about FinFET
transistors, power headaches, and FD-SOI alternatives.
There were 66 vendors showing at the Monday night Expo. Cadence, Mentor,
Apache/Ansys, Xilinx, ARM, GlobalFoundries, EVE, Jasper, Vennsa, Forte.
The show went very smoothly, despite its size. We introduced electronic
surveys this year and did other things to make the conference more "green";
less handouts that you throw away and more online stuff.
- John Busco
Nvidia Corp. Santa Clara, CA
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