DAC, The Chips to Systems Conference’s Post

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Hi there, Sanjay Gangal from ADA Cafe. I'm here with Vivek Day, General Chair of Dec 2024. Hello Vivek? Hello, Sanjay. I would thank you so much for joining us, Vivek. Tell us about that 2024. Yeah, I'm all excited to talk about it. So let me start with the keynote talks. We have 4 wonderful keynote talks starting with opening Keynote on Monday from Jim Keller at Test Torrent. And then on Tuesday we have Doctor Gary Patton from Intel Foundry. Talking about our system foundry futures. Ohh, and then on Wednesday we have Alan Lee from Analog Devices on AI and Intelligent Edge. And then finally on Thursday we have Professor ****** way from. It was really annoying. Urbana Champagne talking about the era of immersive computing. DAK has expanded. From being a strictly EDA conference. Although Ed still remains the focus at its core. To encompass a broader set of topics across chips, systems, and applications. Then we have research paper sessions from Tuesday to Thursday and a variety of topics, the traditional design and EDA topics. And also on AI, security and autonomous systems that have become a major part of DAC in in recent years on the research side. This year we had a 34%. Jump in the number of submissions. Product research. Across all areas. So we ended up with a record 1500 plus submissions. To research and back this year and just after we set all time record last year in 23 with 1100 plus submissions so. You know, a major jump on top of all time record last year and they were from all over the world, from from US, from Asia, from Europe. There are also poster presentations on late breaking results that were not ready in time for tax submission window last year. We also have work in progress poster presentations where the attendees get to talk to the researchers and get an early view of some of the interesting research that's going on out there. So DOC attendees will get a rich and very high quality research paper and other poster presentations representing cutting edge research, a wide range of topics and areas from all over the world, both from academia and industry. Then we have special sessions where leading edge research is presented by. Renowned experts from academia and industry on emerging topic areas. You have to attendees get to hear about exciting new topic areas and some of the Advanced Research and latest trends and key challenges and promising opportunities. Then we have research panels. Here we have luminaries from academia and industry discussing hot topics of current interest. The attendees can gain important insights and perspectives on different sites of sometimes controversial subjects of that are of major interest in recent times. On the educational front, we have tutorials on Monday. On a variety of topics. So their attendees can gain immediate technical knowledge on important areas of recent interest. And some of them also provide hands on training. Then we have the engineering track programs that are targeted for industry practitioners and technical managers. We have 4 areas of focus, Front End Design, Back End Design I and Embedded systems and software. So this year we had a 32% increase in in number of submissions in the engineering track. With a strong focus on AI, design and IP. There are also invited presentations and panels featuring industry experts and executives discussing hot topics of current interest. You also have the DAP pavilion on the exhibit floor. The program there is targeted for both technical and business attendees. We have Skype talks which are essentially mini keynotes and tech talks. Which are technical presentations on topics or major interest to the industry? We have Skytouch in textbooks this year from Keysight, Microsoft and Siemens. You also have panels featuring renowned industry executives and technical experts on hot topics of current interest. The engineering track will again host the annual Poster Gladiator competition at the DAC Pavilion this year. Now, for the first time this year, we'll have the exhibitor forum. Monday through Wednesday, where we will have overly technical presentations from companies to showcase their technology offerings. Targeted at the technical and business attendees from the industry. This year again, we have the career day on Tuesday. For student attendees to explore job and career opportunities in the industry. We also have the traditional daily evening receptions open to all attendees where folks can meet and mingle before dinner. The kickoff reception is on Sunday night. Immediately after the Sunday Newton presentation on How will AI Drive Ed and IP growth in the semiconductor industry, a financial review. So how do you how do you see the future of Deck, and how do you see it evolving to meet our changing needs of the Design Automation community? Yeah, very good question. And and you know that turned 60 last year as we know we had a major celebration of its rich and long history as being the premier, you know, global research conference and industry event in EDA. So you deal with children at the Court of Jack and it's attendees going forward? However, over the last few years we have seen some major expansions in the topics of interest to the deck. Or to win the tag design optimization community. Now, besides the traditional topics of design, EDA, IP and Embedded, we now have 4 new topics. AI, security, autonomous systems and design on cloud. The traditional topics of design and IP and embedded are there, but the number of submissions in AI for example. Both AI for EDA and AI hardware design and architecture I've literally exploded over the last few years and there doesn't seem to be any insight. AI is now 13% of the program and growing rapidly. So security, it is 10% of the program this year. Chips and algorithms are 25% of the program and there has been tremendous interest in design and cloud translate. So we are embracing the expansion of that topic areas and rebranding it for the future. As the chip to systems conference, yes, still EDA at heart. But it has a much broader set of offerings and to the design Automation community. I think this will only help. Dark meat revolving needs. Of the community in a more holistic and comprehensive manner. In the future, we must have much closer collaboration and partnerships across the global ecosystem consisting of chip and system design, IP development, EDA tools and methodologies, and cloud computing infrastructures. In order to address the rapidly growing complexity of systems and applications across all segments of the industry. Security will continue to be more and more critical going forward. Safety and reliability of autonomous systems are going to be more stringent requirements. So the Chip to Systems conference, I think Jack is now very well positioned to serve the rapidly evolving needs, the design automation community across the world and how many attendees do you have? So last year was about 5500 total? We expect a similar or more this year. And and and how much how many of them are from academia versus industry. So typically research side of the conference gets about 1200 thousand, 300 attendees and the remaining are from the industry side and exhibitor side. So that's roughly the breakdown which we have. OK. And our final question, what is the best place online for our visitors to register for Dec? Yeah, go to www.dacom and there's a box says register now just click on that. Well, thank you so much, Vivek, for taking time to record this interview. Have a great day and stay safe. OK. Thank you for having me here. Get this Sanjay Gangal from DA Cafe.