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DAC in the Saddle Again

Food Trucks, Art Shows, and Design Automation

What do algorithmic art, food truck fare, and EDA software have in common? This year’s Design Automation Conference! In this week’s Fish Fry, we get a special sneak peek into the year’s biggest EDA event with DAC Chairman Chuck Alpert. Chucks gives us the lowdown on all of the coolest events at the expo this year (Austin food trucks on the show floor?!), the details of the inaugural DAC art show and super cool keynotes (soccer playing robots?!), and much more. Also this week, we take a closer look at how a unique collaboration between Posterscope and NBS is hoping to stop mosquitoes dead in their tracks – one billboard at a time.

 

 

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Links for April 29, 2016

More information about the The 53rd Design Automation Conference

The 53rd Design Automation Conference Announces Keynotes, SKY Talks and Visionary Talk for 2016

More information about Mosquito Killing Billboards

Fish Fry Executive Interviews

Moshe Gavrielov, CEO – Xilinx

Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor

Bill Neifert, CTO – Carbon Design Systems

Sean Dart, CEO – Forte Design Systems

Andy Pease, CEO – QuickLogic

Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.

Anupam Bakshi, CEO – Agnisys

Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software

Robert Blake, CEO – Achronix

Jack Harding, CEO – eSilicon

Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific

Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies

Jeff Waters, VP and General Manager – Altera

Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas

Ted Miracco, CEO – SmartFlow Compliance Solutions

Cees Links – GreenPeak Technologies

Jessica Gomez – Rogue Valley Microdevices

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Kevin Bromber, CEO – myDevices

Tony Rodriguez, CTO – Digimarc

Mike Holt, CEO – gridComm

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