After Gary and I spoke, I went around the DAC floor looking at what
either of us had chosen as the Must Sees.  The first 7 interviews:

         See http://www.deepchip.com/demos/dac07-01.fhtml

EVE vs. Mentor -- EVE Zebu & the new Mentor Veloce vs. the Cadence
Palladium monopoly.  A really fun interview.  No holds barred.

CLK Amber -- EDA veteran Isadore Katz returns taking on the PrimeTime
monopoly in the static timing analysis game.

Breker Treker -- Some weird "graph based verification" tool that Gary
really loved.  I sort of understood it.  Sort of.

Synopsys DC-Topo -- power opto & estimates, CTS, PhysOpt fading,
congestion and what's coming up in rev 2007.12.

Sequence CoolTime -- IR-drop, I/O design, and SSN; plus voltage
islands, power gating, RTL and PowerTheater 65.

Bluespec -- How Bluespec succeeded in the ESNUG 459 #5 challenge that
Forte ducked out on.  Brett hates this company.

Altos Variety -- Libs for statistical static timing analysis tools.
(Libs for Synopsys, Extreme DA, Cadence, Mentor, and Blaze.)

         See http://www.deepchip.com/demos/dac07-01.fhtml

There are 14 more interviews to follow later.  Enjoy!  - John