( SNUG 01 Item 4 ) --------------------------------------------- [ 3/28/01 ]
Subject: What SNUG'01 Attendees Liked & Disliked
VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: One way to tell what's hot and what's not is to
just see how many people attended what talk. Here's what I personally
counted in each room during the SNUG'01 conference.
Monday, March 5 Number Of Attendees
9:00 - 12:15 (MA1) Tutorial on Design Compiler & Presto 231
9:00 - 12:15 (MA2) Tutorial of SystemC 66
9:00 - 12:15 (MA3) Tutorial on Power Compiler 68
9:00 - 12:15 (MA4) Tutorial on Module Compiler 28
1:30 - 3:30 (MB1) Users on Vera, Vera & PhysOpt 214
1:30 - 3:30 (MB2) Power Compiler, Module Compiler, FPGA 76
3:45 - 5:45 (MC1) DC, simple_compile_mode, ACS 296 + 9 standees
3:45 - 5:45 (MC2) Emacs Verilog & Verilog Standards 38
3:45 - 5:45 (MC3) Compute Farms, LSF, Design Data Mgmt 31
5:45 - 8:30 Non-Synopsys EDA Vendor Fair Party Est. 600
Tuesday, March 6
9:00 - 10:15 Keynote Address (Aart's Speech) 287 + 22 standees
10:30 - 12:30 (TA1) DC, FoorPlan Mgr, PrimeTime, ATPG 257
10:30 - 12:30 (TA2) Code Coverage, Verification, BFMs 84
10:30 - 12:30 (TA3) Power Compiler, FPM, PathMill, Libs 23
1:45 - 3:45 (TB1) Physical Compiler (PhysOpt) 247 + 24 standees
1:45 - 3:45 (TB2) PowerMill, OLA, Antenna Effects 37
4:00 - 4:30 Nvidia Real Life Design Project Talk 251
6:00 - 8:00 Synopsys R&D Cocktail Party ~500
Wednesday, March 7
9:00 - 12:15 (WA1) Tutorial PhysOpt/Chip_Arch/FlexRoute 208
9:00 - 12:15 (WA2) Tutorial Presto HDL Compiler 74
9:00 - 12:15 (WA3) Tutorial FPGA Compiler & Big FPGAs 22
1:30 - 4:45 (WB1) Tutorial on PrimeTime 108
1:00 - 4:45 (WB2) Tutorial on TetraMax, DFT Compiler 82
1:00 - 4:45 (WB3) Tutorial on VCS, Vera, Covermeter 51
1:00 - 4:45 (WB4) Tutorial on Arcadia 24
By looking at which sessions where attendees had a choice, you can see the
designers have a strong interest in: PhysOpt, Chip Architect, DC, Presto,
PrimeTime, FlexRoute, simple_compile_mode, ACS, and Vera. Conversely,
they had minimal interested in: Power Compiler, FPGA Compiler, Arcadia,
and Module Compiler. The "standees" data indicated a surprise interest
(i.e. topics were worth standing for) in: ACS, simple_compile_mode, and
PhysOpt.
Overall user attendance for SNUG'01 was 485 customers. Compared to last
year's 474 customers, you could say that SNUG had a steady following.
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