DAC-Cast

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 stranger to DAC or the EDA community, Kurt has published six books, over 250 refereed articles, and is among the most highly cited authors in Hardware and Design Automation. Kurt was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1996. At the 50th Design Automation Conference Kurt received a number of awards reflecting achievements over the 50 year history of the conference. These included “Top Ten Cited Author” and “Top Ten Cited Paper.” He was also recognized as among one of only three people to have received four Best Paper Awards in the history of the conference. Kurt's research on Deep Learning has also received Best Paper Awards at the Embedded Vision Workshop and at the International Conference on Parallel Processing. Listen in as he meditates on EDA & AI...

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, managed the semiconductor business of Texas Instruments (TI), and is a spokesperson, writer and highly-sought-after speaker for the high-tech industry. Dr. Rhines currently serves as President and CEO of Cornami, Inc., consults for investors, corporations and the U.S. government on strategic directions, value creation and technology and serves on public and private boards.

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 Simulator. He was a co-founder of C2 Design Automation, now Forte Design Systems, where he served as Chief Technical Officer for 15 years. He is a fellow of the ACM and now serves as Chairman at Adapt-IP.

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 Lausanne, Switzerland.

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 drove the creation of Perceive while CTO of its parent company and investor, Xperi, where he supervised technology development, including core audio and imaging innovations, and led the company’s machine learning team.