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Calypto’s Power Optimization and the Find Amelia at Design West Contest

In this week’s Fish Fry, I dig into the multi-layered world of power optimization with Shawn McCloud (Vice President, Marketing – Calypto).  Shawn and I discuss the problems surrounding power reduction in today’s smaller geometries, and why he thinks power optimization is ignored by many designers. I even grill Shawn about why he has a ban on high heels at his house.  Also this week, I unveil the details of EE Journal’s first conference contest called “Find Amelia at Design West” and even throw out a couple super secret hints on how you can find me and win a MAX V CPLD Development Kit (courtesy of Altera) right there at the show.

 

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Moshe Gavrielov, CEO – Xilinx

John Bruggeman, Former CMO – Cadence Design Systems

Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor

Lauro Rizzatti, Vice President of Marketing, EVE

Bill Neifert, CTO – Carbon Design Systems

Sean Dart, CEO – Forte Design Systems

Kapil Shankar, Former CEO – SiliconBlue

Andy Pease, CEO – QuickLogic

Rajeev Madhavan, Former CEO – Magma 

Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.


Fish Fry Links – March 23, 2012

Register to Download the TI/Calypto whitepaper

More Information about Calypto

More Information about EE Journal’s Design West contest “FIND AMELIA AT DESIGN WEST”

2012 FPGA Software Ease-Of-Use Survey

More information about Altera’s MAX V CPLD Development Kit

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