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The emotional ambience at DAC is what you get when you pour the excitement of a high school science fair, the sense of the recurring wheel of life from the movie Groundhog Day, and the auld lang syne of a high school re-union, and hit frappe.



Some related quotes–at least I believe… Continue

DAC 2009 will have a new dimension - social media. I'm excited to be the pioneer for these activities.



Come learn, listen, or talk in Conversation Central.



Watch and broadcast tweets on the Twitter Tower in the standards booth - use the Twitter hashtag #46DAC.



Meet new people and old friends at Tweetups - get a tiny toy that your kids will love.



If you want to learn about Twitter, my 9:30am session in… Continue

Looking at DAC booths on the show floor always reminds me of the year my perspective on trade show booths changed forever. It was at DAC 1991, held in San Francisco. Cadence waved a magic wand that year and produced a video that set a high-water mark for DAC booths that has never again been achieved, in my opinion. It only cost the company a rumored $250,000 to set this mark.



That year, EDA frameworks to get tools to play nice together were all the rage. Cadence was pushing its… Continue

Hello Everyone,

I'm looking forward at DAC 2009 to learn about and see demos of signal integrity, power integrity, and electromagnetic field solver tools to be used in both industrial and teaching environments. A few info sessions and hands-on workshops I have already signed up for look very attractive and promising. See you at DAC!

Cosmin Iorga, Ph.D.
Founder and President,
NoiseCoupling.com
http://www.noisecoupling.com

One of my best memories of DAC was the night of our first Denali DAC party. We were a tiny company and hoping to garner some good will by throwing an open party on Bourbon Street. Sanjay (our CEO) and I had talked up the party for two days to everyone we knew pushing that this was going to be a knock-down, drag-out good time. Of course, we had no idea what would really happen...



We had hoped to see 150 people and thought we'd be happy (and lucky) to break 100. Low and behold, we had… Continue

I attended my first DAC when I was 26 years old. I had been an AE for exactly four months. I had never been to a trade show. In my tweed jacket, I was dressed completely wrong for the Las Vegas heat. It was 1986, and I had just joined Gateway Design Automation as the first AE for Verilog. We didn't even have a booth at DAC -- we had a suite upstairs in the Hilton, and we were doing demos in the booth of CAECO, a schematic capture partner.



Since then, I've been to all but two DACs. It… Continue

Not an exhaustive list, but these articles cover some of the exciting activities happening at this year's DAC ...



• Official DAC eZine



• Guest Blog: Limor Fix – Verification session at DAC (Verification Vertigo)



•… Continue

After attending DAC for over 11 years, here are a few "do's and don’ts"...



Do:

* Grab breakfast at one of the morning panels. The prices at the conference center or your hotel for a cup of coffee and muffin are more than your daily per diem.

* Make sure you wear comfortable walking shoes. There is lots of ground to cover collecting all the tchotchkes on the exhibit floor.

* Pack some alka-seltzer and aspirins for any next morning hangovers.

* Bring lots of… Continue

Top 10 Signs You’re in Love with DAC



10 – You flirt with other conferences, but nothing compares to DAC



9 – You have a closet full of DAC t-shirts and a cube full of Conference Badges



8 – You were heartbroken when “DAC4EVER” was not available on a license plate



7 – Your bookshelf was filled with old DAC proceedings. Now shopping for a DVD shelf!



6 – You use booth giveaways as Christmas presents for… Continue

Since 1978, I've missed three DACs. I guess that means I love it, or I'm addicted to it. Either way, I look forward to watching this site grow.