{"id":1829,"date":"2020-07-02T18:06:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T01:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/expertinsights\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:15:23","slug":"mentor-at-dac-2020-a-virtual-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/expertinsights\/2020\/07\/02\/mentor-at-dac-2020-a-virtual-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentor at DAC 2020 : A Virtual Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mentor, a Siemens Business is a Platinum Sponsor for this year\u2019s Design Automation Conference (DAC). The<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">57th Design Automation Conference<\/a><\/strong> (DAC) executive committee, together with ACM and IEEE, have decided to move DAC 2020 to a virtual event format scheduled for July 20 &#8211; 24, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1832 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2020\/07\/57-dac.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier conference for design and automation of electronic systems. DAC offers outstanding training, education, exhibits and superb networking opportunities for designers, researchers, tool developers and vendors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONFERENCE PROGRAM SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>Monday:<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=295-160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continuing Evolution of the Electronics Ecosystem<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Monday July 20, 11:00am \u2013 11:45am | DAC Pavilion<\/p>\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0 Wally Rhines &#8211; <span class=\"\"><span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this session, <span class=\"abstract\">Dr. Rhines will provide an update on the electronics industry and discuss future directions for EDA.<\/span>\u00a0 He will also throw light on s<span class=\"abstract\">ystems companies including automotive, aerospace and data center companies, and how they have continued their move into the world of IC design.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=296-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Easy Deadlock Verification and Debug with Advanced Formal Verification<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Monday July 20, 01:30pm -03:00pm | Designer Track Paper Presentation | <strong><em>*Best Paper Nominee<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Authors: <span class=\"\"><span class=\"name\">Joe Hupcey III<\/span> &#8211; ICVS Product Manager, <span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business | <\/span><\/span><span class=\"\"><span class=\"name\">Jeremy Levitt<\/span> &#8211; Principal Enginer &#8211; ICVS, <span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This presentation will throw light on how <span class=\"abstract\">formal and static methods continue to be a critical and growing part of verification. The first half of this session will present new techniques in this area for deadlock verification, finite state machine checks, and reset domain crossing (RDC) challenges. The second half of this session will present some new ideas for effective UVM-based simulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>Tuesday:<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=296-27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"sestitle\">Advanced Power Techniques\/RISC-V Design and Validation<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Tuesday July 21, 01:30pm \u2013 03:00pm | Designer Track Presentation<\/p>\n<p>Chair: Dave Rich &#8211; Product Manager, ICVS &#8211; Mentor, A Siemens Business<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"abstract\">Power consumption continues to be a critical issue in any modern design. The first half of this session will present a variety of new techniques related to low-power design and validation. Another topic that has taken the industry by storm in recent years is the revolutionary open-source RISC-V ISA. In the second half of this session, we will discuss some new ideas in design and validation related to this architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=296-126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"sestitle\">Silicon Bug Hunt with \u201cDeep Sea Fishing\u201d Formal Verification Methodology<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday July 21, 07:30am \u2013 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: <span class=\"speaker\"><span class=\"name\">Ping Yeung<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business<\/span><\/span><br \/>\nPresenters: <span class=\"speaker\"><span class=\"name\">Ping Yeung<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"\"><span class=\"name\">Joe Hupcey III<\/span> &#8211; ICVS Product Manager, <span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=296-126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"sestitle\">Considering Both Power and Clock Designs: A Method For Successful Verification of Power Domain-Aware Clock Domain Crossings<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 8px\" border=\"0\" width=\"10\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"papertitle\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"papertitle\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Tuesday July 21, 07:30am \u2013 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation<\/p>\n<p>Author:\u00a0 <span class=\"\"><span class=\"name\">Kurt Takara<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business, Fremont CA<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=296-126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"sestitle\">Effective High-Level Synthesis Flow for ISP Hardware Design Performance and Area Optimization<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday July 21, 07:30am \u2013 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: William Lee <span class=\"speaker\">&#8211; <span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business, Seongnam, Republic of Korea<\/span><\/span><br \/>\nAuthor: William Lee <span class=\"speaker\">&#8211; <span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business, Seongnam, Republic of Korea<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 5px\" border=\"0\" width=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"role\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"text\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>5. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=296-126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"sestitle\">Functional Safety Island \u2013 As Easy as Palm Trees and Cocktails<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday July 21, 07:30am \u2013 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Lee C. Harrison &#8211; Mentor, A Siemens Business, United Kingdom<br \/>\nAuthor: Lee C. Harrison &#8211; Mentor, A Siemens Business, United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=296-126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"sestitle\">Accelerating Early Design Physical Verification Cycle<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday July 21, 07:30am \u2013 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation<\/p>\n<p>Authors: Nermeen Hossan <span class=\"speaker\">&#8211; <span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business, Egypt | Bhavani Prasad &#8211; Mentor, A Siemens Business, Bangalore, India<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>7. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=296-126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"sestitle\">Improving Transition-Coverage Cycle Time with a Declarative Description<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday July 21, 07:30am \u2013 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation<\/p>\n<p>Authors: Ammar Ahmad<span class=\"speaker\"> &#8211; <span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business | Matthew Ballance, Mentor, A Siemens Business<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>8. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=296-126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"sestitle\">Cross Products Hotspot Detection with Calibre SONR: A Machine Learning Technique<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday July 21, 07:30am \u2013 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation<\/p>\n<p>Authors: Yuansheng Ma, Juli Optiz, Rui Wu, Le Hong, Liang Cao, Dingyi Hong, Joerg Mellmann, Yuyang Sun, James Word<span class=\"speaker\"> &#8211; <span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>9. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=296-126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"sestitle\">Rapid Adoption of Full-Chip Hierarchical CDC Analysis<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday July 21, 07:30am \u2013 08:30am| Designer Track Poster Presentation<\/p>\n<p>Authors: Kurt Takara<span class=\"speaker\"> &#8211; <span class=\"affiliation\">Mentor, A Siemens Business <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>Wednesday:<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=296-71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Train Your Dragon Before You Have Machine Learning Training Data &#8211; A Litho Hotspot Validation Solution<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Wednesday, July 22, 3:30pm \u2013 5:00pm | Designer Track Paper Presentation<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Joe Kwan, Product Marketing Manager, Mentor, A Siemens Business<br \/>\nAuthors: Joe Kwan, Wael Elmanhawy, Aliaa Kabeel, Sarah Rizk, Mohamed Ismail, Kareem Madkour\u00a0 &#8211; Mentor, A Siemens Business<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>Thursday:<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.dac.com\/events\/eventdetails.aspx?id=295-90\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"sestitle\">High-Level Synthesis 1974 &#8211; 2020: The Meteoric Rise of a Hot Topic?<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Thursday, July 23, 3:30pm \u2013 4:30pm | Panel<\/p>\n<p>Panelist: Bryan Bowyer &#8211; Mentor, A Siemens Business<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"abstract\">This panel celebrates the success of high-level synthesis as an important tool in CAD. High-level synthesis originated with research in the 1970s; a steady stream of innovation from both academic and industrial researchers paved the way for today&#8217;s successful HLS tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mentor Booth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The booth features several videos covering Mentor\u2019s news from DAC: three new technology announcements and a quick overview of the recent UltraSoC acquisition. There\u2019s also a chat window where you can ask Mentor experts questions and there\u2019s a feature that allows you to request meetings with Mentor representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Because we can\u2019t have coffee with you in person, <strong>for visiting Mentor\u2019s booth<\/strong> you will receive a <em><strong>$5 Starbucks card<\/strong><\/em> (limited to one per person) via email shortly. Additionally, you will automatically be entered into our drawing for a Yeti 20oz Rambler\/Tumbler simply by watching a video or engaging in a chat.*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*To qualify, you must be registered with a company email. Winners will be notified by email.\u00a0 <strong>Please note the drawing excludes competitors and Mentor employees; the coffee cards are only available while supplies last; and the Yeti prizes can only be shipped to addresses within the USA.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of our designer track poster presentations will occur on Tuesday morning (July 21) apart from our designer track paper presentations on Tuesday, Monday &amp; Wednesday (July 21 &#8211; 23). Attendees will also have the chance to enter to win some great prizes!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1835 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2020\/07\/platinum-sponsors_-dac.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"65\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can view the complete list of all our technical sessions and register <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mentor, a Siemens Business is a Platinum Sponsor for this year\u2019s Design Automation Conference (DAC). 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