DAC-Cast

DAC-Cast

The official podcast of the Design Automation Conference, the premier conference on leading-edge research and practice in tools and methodologies for the design and design automation of electronic circuits and systems. Key topics discussed are tailored to practitioners in design and design automation ecosystem. The 61st DAC will be held in June 2024 at the Moscone West Center in San Francisco, CA. Be on the lookout for information on DAC registration in early 2024.

Episodes

April 3, 2024 29 mins

Catch up with the DAC-Cast hosts and the newest episode featuring Dave Rich, Verification Methodologist at Siemens EDA. Dave and the hosts walk through his experience within the industry as well as discussing design and verification technologies.

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The DAC-Cast hosts are back with 60DAC keynote speaker and IBM Fellow, Head of Science & Technology and Lead of IBM Research Quantum Europe at IBM Research, Heike Riel. Listen today to hear her story, where she is now - leading the research agenda of the Science & Technology department aiming to create scientific and technological breakthroughs in Quantum Computing, Physics of Artificial Intelligence, Nanoscience and Nanote...

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The DAC-Cast hosts are back and this time with an absolute icon in the industry and one of 60DAC's keynote speakers, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. Co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, Alberto currently serves as the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. Subscribe and listen as DAC-Casters catch up with Alberto on what he's up to no...

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September 25, 2023 37 mins

Thank you for joining us this past July in San Francisco for 60DAC. Here are a few highlights of the of the milestone 60th year.

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Just over a week before DAC, the DAC-Cast hosts return with another episode.. this time with none-other-than Kurt Keutzer. In 1998 Kurt became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley and recently, Kurt’s research focuses on systems issues associated with the application of Deep Learning to computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and finance. No s...

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Part 3: Dr. John Sanguinetti stops by DAC-Cast to share his story and key moments in his career. Dr. Sanguinetti has been active in computer architecture, performance analysis, design verification, and electronic design automation for many years. After working as a design verification engineer at Ardent Computer and NeXT Computer, he founded Chronologic Simulation in 1991 and was the principal architect of VCS, the Verilog Compile...

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DAC-Cast hosts are joined by Dr. Walden "Wally" Rhines for this episode leading up to his keynote presentation at #60DAC. Wally is widely recognized as an expert in business value creation and technology for the semiconductor and electronic design automation (EDA) industries. He was CEO of Mentor Graphics (a “Big Three” EDA company with $1.3B+ revenue) for 24 years, has served on the boards of five public companies, manag...

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The DAC-Cast hosts are back and this time with industry visionary, Joe Costello. Joe served as CEO within the EDA (electronic design automation) space, where he helped teams create leading technology in the industry. From early in his career, Joe was attracted to solving problems within technology and making internet more accessible. In 2004, Joe received the Phil Kaufman Award, for his service to the EDA industry. Hear his story w...

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Part 2: Dr. John Sanguinetti stops by DAC-Cast to share his story and key moments in his career. Dr. Sanguinetti has been active in computer architecture, performance analysis, design verification, and electronic design automation for many years. After working as a design verification engineer at Ardent Computer and NeXT Computer, he founded Chronologic Simulation in 1991 and was the principal architect of VCS, the Verilog Compiled...

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Part 1: Dr. John Sanguinetti stops by DAC-Cast to share his story and key moments in his career. Dr. Sanguinetti has been active in computer architecture, performance analysis, design verification, and electronic design automation for many years. After working as a design verification engineer at Ardent Computer and NeXT Computer, he founded Chronologic Simulation in 1991 and was the principal architect of VCS, the Verilog Compiled...

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The DAC-Cast hosts welcome Giovanni DeMicheli to talk about the ups and downs of his career in EDA.

Giovanni De Micheli is a research scientist in electronics and computer science. He is credited for the invention of the Network on Chip design automation paradigm and for the creation of algorithms and design tools for Electronic Design Automation. He is a professor and the director of the Integrated Systems Laboratory at EPFL in La...

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Hear from Harry Foster, Chief Scientist Verification for the Design Verification Technology Division of Siemens EDA; and is the Co-Founder and Executive Editor for the Verification Academy, who is interviewed by the DAC-Cast hosts on top industry trends this year. 

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September 29, 2022 47 mins

Join DAC Podcast hosts, Erik Seligman and Rich Edelman, as they talk about topics most relevant to practitioners in the design and design automation ecosystem. This episode, our hosts are joined by none other than 2022 DAC Keynote Speaker, Steve Teig. Steve is the CEO of Perceive. Steve is a visionary technologist whose work has impacted industries ranging from software and semiconductors to biotechnology and machine learning. He d...

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