DAC - DAC 2013 - My DAC Moment: 50 Years of Memories

My DAC Moment: 50 Years of Memories

DAC has been around for 50 years! If you've attended a bunch of these conferences, chances are something made one DAC stand out above the rest. What made that DAC memorable? Between now and DAC50 in Austin next June, we will be publishing your experience on the new “My DAC moment” page. There are no rules as to what counts as memorable: maybe you presented a paper, met your wife, shook hands on the biggest deal of your life, threw the first Denali party, or maybe you finally met a VC who would invest in your startup.

Wally Rhines' Moment
My most memorable DAC was one I didn’t attend --- 1982 in Las Vegas.  In March of 1982, TI Semiconductor Group was totally reorganized. After running TI’s Microprocessor Division for years, I now had the additional responsibility of managing the Design Automation Division (DAD), a bureaucratic central support organization that I had been doing battle with for a long time, trying to secure permission to allow designers to use commercial EDA tools instead of the mandated TI DAD-developed tools.
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Jim Hogan's Moment
Its day 2 at the Dallas DAC.  I'm working for Cadence and we have booked about 80 demos a day.  John Gianni of Skill fame, is doing demos for the Virtuoso environment and DB integration.  It's 6:30 in the morning and Gianni goes out of the hotel for a run.  He trips on curb at the valet station and breaks both his femurs.
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Zhuo Li's Moment
My DAC experience started from 2003, when my first DAC paper, nlogn buffering insertion, was accepted. I was very excited and since I got "free travel" (thank for my advisor, Dr. Weiping Shi), I planned a big road trip with two of my best friends.
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Nanette Collins' Moment
I can think of several DAC moments from the many DACs I’ve attended, but the 43rd DAC held in San Francisco in 2006 after its 11-year absence holds special, unforgettable moments. First, the wonderful Ellen Sentovich was the chair...
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Mahdi Nikdast's Moment
Unfortunately, I am not old enough to experience 50 years of the amazing DAC. I just know about it for the last 4 years, when I published my first paper in DAC. It was my first year of Ph.D. and I was so happy...
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Dyson Wilkes' Moment
My moment was when I presented my first peer-reviewed paper at DAC 1999 although what I remember most vividly from that conference was being caught one evening in a torrential rain storm...
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Kevin Chou's Moment
DAC '99 @ New Orleans   It was my first DAC and I was working for CadMOS.  I recall looking franticly...
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Jude Angelo Ambrose's Moment
DAC 2006 was my first ever conference I attended and presented. It was the first time I did a research presentation infront of a huge number of audience, which I will never forget in my life...
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Frank Schirrmeister's Moment
I had attended DAC before as a user running teams for multimedia IP development back in Germany – we called them “Design Objects” at the time to mimic a software development feeling of re-use, but my favorite DAC moment came as a vendor at DAC 2003 in Anaheim...
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John Berrie's Moment
I was Session Chair of "3D IC and Package Design Issues" in 2007. Being a veteran of many DACs, I regarded this duty as an honor...
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Kathryn Kranen’s Moment
My favorite DAC memory: Las Vegas in 1996. I was working for Quickturn at the time, and my now-husband Kevin worked for Synopsys.  On the Wednesday morning of DAC, Kevin "popped the question", and I eagerly accepted his proposal...
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Patrick Groeneveld's Moment
I started working towards a PhD in design automation after doing a class based on Carver Mead & Lynn Conway’s landmark book on VLSI. The colorful mask patterns and the magical combination of physical and logical design were irresistibly attractive...
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Steve Trimberger's Moment
It was in the early 80s, I was giving my first DAC presentation.  DAC was much more relaxed in the early 80's, before there was an EDA industry, and the session was running late...
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Peter Marwedel's Moment
My first DAC was in 1979. I was a young European post-doc, who had never been to the US before. All DC-10s had been grounded due to engine problems and I had to fly a 707. The conference was held at San Diego. Before the conference started I stayed in a cheap hotel in the down-town area...
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Anne Cirkel's Moment
I have been involved with DAC for many years as a vendor and I have certainly had my fair share of DAC moments good and bad (and no, they weren't all at the Denali party!). However, I have to admit that my true DAC moment came when I joined the volunteer community supporting the conference...
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Naehyuck Chang's Moment
The first Design Automation Conference I attended was DAC 2000 held in Los Angeles. During DAC 2000, I presented my first DAC paper on cycle-accurate energy measurement of ARM7 microprocessor...
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Paul Mclellan's Moment
My own DAC moment has to be my first DAC (I’ve been to every one since) in Albuquerque. This was when DAC was focused on EDA only, and I realized EDA was going to be a sizable industry. In 1983 Albuquerque was still a small town and it had been selected when DAC was just an academic conference without a tradeshow...
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SUBMIT YOUR DAC MOMENTWhatever it is that made your DAC moment memorable, we want to hear about it. Submit your moment today and we will send you a DAC shirt if we publish your moment.

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