Live from DAC 2010: Gary Smith on What's Hot
Posted by Mike Sottak on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 @ 06:26 PM
ANAHEIM, CAlif. - One of the highlights of the Design Automation Conference every year is Gary's Smith "What's Hot" list. He spends the year trolling through EDA vendors' pitches, both large and small companies, to find the most interesting new technology available for chip designers. A daunting task considering the number of new start-ups emerging all the time, not to mention the large EDA vendors that continue to come out with add-on products.
But Gary carries on, and always comes up with a pretty complete and compelling list of things to see. He breaks the new innovations down into logical categories - physical design, verification, DFM, etc. etc. He even produces a wall chart that displays all the different types of EDA tools and technologies available, and all the EDA vendors who provide tools in each bucket.
GateRocket was pleased to be included in Gary's very exclusive list of "Must See" new technologies at this year's DAC. Gary presented his list last night at a special welcome reception hosted by EDAC, and then again this morning on the DAC show floor. Both presentations drew large crowds of designers, anxious to see what's new and exciting this year.
Gary spent a bit of time talking about how GateRocket has evolved from being an emulation/hardware company, to offering a complete debug and verification solution that consists of the RocketDrive hardware as well as the newly enhanced RocketVision software debug environment. He highlighted the new SoftPatch features in the new release 5.0. And, he stressed the criticality of enhanced verification and debug for FPGAs in general.
We're glad Gary is on board with what we see as a growing crisis in FPGA design, and we thank him for including GateRocket in his prestigious list.