( SNUG 03 Item 2 ) ----------------------------------------------- [05/14/03]
Subject: What The SNUG'03 Attendees Liked & Disliked
VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: One way to tell what's hot & what's not is to just
see how many people attended what talk. This is what I personally counted
in each room during the SNUG'03 conference.
Monday, March 17 Number Of Attendees
9:00 - 10:30 (MA1) Tutorial Design Compiler 206 + 22 standees
9:00 - 10:30 (MA2) Tutorial (I) TetraMAX, DFT Compiler 82
9:00 - 10:30 (MA3) Tutorial OpenVera Coding 49
10:45 - 12:15 (MB1) Tutorial Power Compiler 163
10:45 - 12:15 (MB2) Tutorial (II) TetraMAX, DFT Compiler 106
10:45 - 12:15 (MB3) Tutorial Formality 98
1:30 - 3:30 (MC1) DC, PhysOpt, Astro & Astro CTS, OCV 192
1:30 - 3:30 (MC2) PrimeTime-SI, Star-RCXT, Astro, SPICE 152
1:30 - 3:30 (MC3) DC & DC Libraries 62 + 28 standees
3:45 - 5:45 (MD1) ACS, Altera FPGAs, LSF 64
3:45 - 5:05 (MD2) Clock Skew, PrimeTime & Xilinx FPGAs 103
3:45 - 5:45 (MD3) VCS, Vera 67 + 15 standees
3:45 - 5:05 (MD4) Hercules DRC 27
6:00 - 8:30 3rd Party EDA Vendor Party Est. 400
Tuesday, March 18
9:00 - 10:15 Keynote Address (Aart's Speech) 303
10:30 - 11:50 (TA1) Vera, OpenVera 47
10:30 - 12:30 (TA2) DC, Tcl, PrimeTime, PT-SI, PhysOpt 181
10:30 - 12:30 (TA3) SystemC, System Verilog, Verilog PLI 97
10:30 - 12:30 (TA4) Saber, HSPICE, Cosmos, Columbia 33
1:45 - 3:45 (TB1) PhysOpt vs. Astro, PhysOpt-MPC 187 + 44 standees
1:45 - 4:25 (TB2) DC scripting, System Verilog 93
1:45 - 4:25 (TB3) TetraMAX, DFT Compiler 60
4:45 - 5:15 ARM Design Project Talk 163
5:30 - 6:00 Authors Poster Session 131
6:00 - 8:30 Synopsys R&D Cocktail Party ~500
Wednesday, March 19
9:00 - 12:15 (WA1) Tutorial on PhysOpt 2003.03 131
9:00 - 12:15 (WA2) Tutorial PrimeTime & PT-SI Update 111 + 17 standees
9:00 - 12:15 (WA3) Tutorial Apollo-to-Astro Migration 42
9:00 - 12:15 (WA4) Tutorial CoCentric System Studio 28
1:30 - 3:00 (WB1) Tutorial Signal Integrity 137
1:30 - 3:00 (WB2) Tutorial (I) Verif. Methodology 92
1:30 - 3:00 (WB3) Tutorial 90 nm with Star-RCXT 43
3:15 - 4:45 (WC1) Tutorial Astro Clock Tree Synthesis 126
3:15 - 4:45 (WC2) Tutorial (II) Verif. Methodology 55
By looking at which sessions where attendees had a choice, you can see the
designers had a strong interest in: DC, PhysOpt, Astro, PhysOpt vs. Astro,
PrimeTime, VCS, PrimeTime-SI, Star-RCXT, Astro CTS, TetraMAX, DFT Compiler,
and System Verilog. (The System Verilog interest was probably a spur of
the moment thing because Aart talked it up so much in his keynote address.)
There was some surprise high interest in Power Compiler and Formality. I
didn't see those two coming. The foot traffic tells me I should keep an
eye on both Power Compiler and Formality this year.
The lower interest tools by attendance were: Hercules, Vera, Saber, HSPICE,
Cosmos, Columbia, and CoCentric. I can understand why some of the smaller
Avanti tools had lower interest (because there are actually fewer numbers of
users worldwide for these types of backend tools), but Vera and CoCentric
are supposed to be more popular (because for every design engineer there's
supposed to be 3 verification engineers out there using stuff like Vera, but
evidently weren't here!)
Overall user attendance for SNUG'02 was 474 customers. This year attendance
jumped to 549 users. That's a 15.8% rise in attendance. From the surveys,
5.7% of that was new Avanti users coming into SNUG from the merger; leaving
an intrinsic 10.1% rise in SNUG'03 attending customers. Pretty impressive
in a crappy economy.
"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather
was."
- Irish proverb
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."
- Chinese proverb
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