Synopsys social media guru Karen Bartleson on engineers and community and looking for the owner of a lost brain at DAC.

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• Cadence's Sharon Rosenberg on dancing and design automation

  Cadence methodology architect Sharon Rosenberg talks about design trends at DAC 2011.
• What lies ahead at 20nm

  20nm development will be just as challenging as the 28nm node, but double-patterning helps keep Moore's Law moving, says Suk Lee, marketing director at TSMC
• The road to 28nm

  Samsung Foundry VP Ana Hunter announces her company has just qualified 28nm low power process and introduced a new flavor of 28nm that's both low power and higher performance.
• System realization: hype or hope?

  System realization methodologies are evolving quickly as hardware and software become increasingly entangled in the design process, according to Michal Siwinski,group product marketing director with Cadence.
• Social media, networking edging into EDA tools

  Cadence blogger Joe Hupcey on how engineers are now embracing (and always have) social media and how social networking is moving inside EDA tools.
• Synopsys' Karen Bartleson on social media and engineers

  Synopsys social media guru Karen Bartleson on engineers and community and looking for the owner of a lost brain at DAC
• Richard Goering on the move to ESL and attending 27 DACs

  Cadence blogger and longtime electronics-industry journalist Richard Goering talks about the EDA industry's climb up the abstraction ladder and how he's survived 27 Design Automation Conferences
• EDA industry to experience single-digit growth "as far as we can see"

  Mentor Graphics CEO Wally Rhines on the EDA industry's outlook and why he wasn't surprised the Japan quake impact was minimal.
• The embedded software challenge for IC designers

  EDN Editor-at-large Ron Wilson says IC devleopers are now really systems developers and that means they have to understand embedded software development, which is non-trivial.
• Magma CEO on 1970s-era station wagons and EDA's evolution

  We surprise Magma CEO Rajeev Madhavan with a photo of an old station wagon and he uses it as a metaphor to describe the march of EDA technology.
• IBM Fellow John Cohn on Smarter Planet and how to get on reality TV

  IBM Fellow John Cohn describes IBM's Smarter Planet initiative (instrumented, interconnected and intelligence) and how he landed on a remarkably cool reality TV show.
• Enabling pattern-matching verification at 28nm

  GlobalFoundries R&D Fellow Luigi Capodieci describes an extension of ultra-deep submicron physical verification using pattern-matching at 28nm.
• Emerging 3D IC design techniques

  Samta Bansal of Cadence describes new 3D IC design techniques that optimize package and die together to deliver a complete system.
• A new vision for embedded vision

  An amazing gesture-based demo from Jeff Bier of BDTI and the Embedded Vision Alliance gives a glimpse of the promise of this emerging technology.
• Managing IP in an age of intense design complexity

  IC Manage CEO Dean Drako discusses the challenges of managing the biggest component of any SoC design: IP blocks
• Calypto announces extensions to PowerPro software tool

  Doug Aitelli, CEO of Calypto, discusses the company's recent new-product announcements at the 2011 Design Automation Conference
• ARM launches new SoC design community

  Simon Segars from ARM discusses a new ARM community to address designers' information needs as they start SoC designs.
• Vishal Kapoor on SoC realization

  Cadence's Vishal Kapoor discusses the challenges of making complex systems a reality using systems-on-chip
• ESL's tipping point is here

  EDA industry analyst Gary Smith says electronic system-level design has arrived as an accepted mainstream methodology
• The promise of wireless power systems

  Ross Teggatz, president of Triune, talks about untethered power supplies.
• The future of EDA investment

  Jim Hogan and Paul McLellan talk about what it takes to launch an EDA startup today
• Does the EDA industry need to be shaken up?

  Cadence CMO John Bruggeman offers his take on how the EDA might revitalize itself.
• How to survive DAC

  Cadence EDA 360 Evangelist Steve Leibson offers tips on how to survive the long march of DAC
• DAC360 Schedule of Live Events

  Live interviews from the show floor of the 48th Design Automation Conference, June 6-9, in San Diego, Calif.
• The most interesting man in EDA

  The most interesting man in EDA invites you to attend the Design Automation Conference in San Diego, June 5-9, 2011.