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Guest: Dr. Peter Ateshian, Adjunct Instructor, Naval Postgraduate School

Hosts: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc. and Yvette Huygen, Director, Worldwide Public Relations and Corporate Communications, Synopsys, Inc.

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On this episode, we had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Peter Ateshian, who drove all the way up from Monterey, California to join us in the studio for this technically-intriguing yet approachable program.

Generally speaking, the semiconductor industry’s most advanced node today is 22 nanometers (as named by the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors – ITRS). Peter discusses the amazing technology below 22 nanometers being developed at the Naval Postgraduate School and other research institutions. Such advanced technology includes complementary carbon nanotube transistors and diamond-silicon based gallium nitride transistors. Hear Peter tell us about these and other future innovations on the horizon.

A carbon-nanotube circuit

Links of interest:

Naval Postgraduate School

Article: Complex Integrated Circuits Made of Carbon Nanotubes

Guest: Roy Jewell, former president and COO of Magma Design Automation

Hosts: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys, Inc. and Yvette Huygen, Director, Worldwide Public Relations and Corporate Communications, Synopsys, Inc.

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On this episode of Conversation Central, Karen gets the chance to catch up with an old friend and colleague, Roy Jewell, former president and COO of Magma Design Automation.  Yvette and Karen ask Roy to share his career story of how he went from a Physics major, to engineer , and then to business leader and what it took to become successful along the way.

Roy Jewell’s first job out of college was with Texas Instruments, where he and Karen met. Roy attributes part of his success to the culture that he was surrounded with at TI which instilled the importance of being in control and solely responsible for one’s career path. With a physics background, Roy made the transition from a highly technical position to a marketing role at a start-up in Palo Alto, California. He then went on to become a business leader in various C-level roles.

Roy also shares with us where he thinks the EDA industry is headed, the changes that need to happen, as well as what he looks forward to personally. Karen also tells a story of her favorite memory of Roy.

Links of interest:

Texas Instruments

University of South Florida

The University of Texas at Dallas

Karen Bartleson and Roy Jewell in the early '80s

Karen Bartleson, Yvette Huygen, and Roy Jewell

Guests: Ambar Sarkar, Technical Program Chair, DVCon 2012 and Stan Krolikoski, Tutorials and Panels Chair, DVCon 2012

Hosts: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc. and Yvette Huygen, Director, Worldwide Public Relations and Corporate Communications, Synopsys, Inc.

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Last year, we talked with Dr. Ambar Sarkar, the Technical Program Chair of DVCon 2011. His show was quite popular – more than 600 listens in the first few months after broadcast and people continue to listen today. We decided to bring you another episode, this time for DVCon 2012, which is being put on by Accellera.  Ambar was joined by Stan Krolikoski, the Tutorials and Panel Chair.

Ambar and Stan talk about the 2012 program, which is even better than last year, as well as what it takes to keep a physically-located conference successful and growing in modern times. Learn how the high quality papers and tutorials featured at DVCon are chosen, as well as what Ambar and Stan see as the current and emerging trends.

The Design & Verification Conference is the premier conference for functional design and verification, focused on bringing information to engineers from the leading edge of technology, techniques, standards, and methods.

Links of interest:

DVCon 2012
Accellera

Karen Bartleson, Yvette Huygen, Stan Krolikoski, and Ambar Sarkar

Guest: Sergei Umnyashkin, Vice Rector, National Research University of Electronic Technology (formerly Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology (MIET))

Host: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc.

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There is an international need for well-educated, well-prepared engineering graduates from universities around the world. The future of the worldwide electronics industry depends on these new engineers to continue moving technology and business forward for the next generation. We invited Vice Rector of National Research University of Electronic Technology (formally Moscow Institute of Electronics Technology (MIET)), Sergei Umnyashkin, to talk to us about the successes and challenges in engineering education in Russia. You will learn from Sergei about the general condition of electronic education in Russia as well as what role the electronics industry plays in helping to ensure that new graduates are the best prepared to enter the workforce. Sergei also shares how MIET’s international affairs works to get support from the electronics industry.

Links of interest:

National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)

Karen Bartleson and Sergei Umnyashkin

Guests: John Goodenough, Vice President, Design Technology and Automation, ARM; Jim Hogan, Private Investor; Mark Templeton, President, Scientific Ventures, LLC; Michael Keating, Synopsys Fellow (retired), Author of the Low Power Methodology Manual; Shay Gal-On, Director, Software Engineering, EEMBC; Shishpal Rawat, Chair, Accellera.

Hosts: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys and Yvette Huygen, Director, Worldwide Public Relations and Corporate Communications, Synopsys and “Man on the Street” interviewer, Yatin Trivedi, Director, Standards, Synopsys.

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Over the years at the EDA Interoperability Forum, we have asked many industry luminaries to come share their thoughts on the challenges and opportunities in the chip design and EDA communities. These luminaries laid out their predictions for the future and discussed how important interoperability is for the ecosystem.

At the 24^thInteroperability Forum, we invited  several of the past keynote speaker “alumni” to come back and revisit what their concerns were when they last spoke at the Forum.  They also discussed where the industry is now and shared their visions on how future challenges can be overcome and how to make the most of the opportunities ahead.

Listen to this episode of Conversation Central to hear the summaries of what these luminaries spoke about.

The full  recordings and the PDFs of the presentations will soon be available on the 24th EDA Interoperability Forum home page.

Links of Interest:

EDA Interoperability Forum

Interoperability Community Page

ARM

Verification Methodology Manual for Low Power

EEMBC

Accellera

Yatin Trivedi & John Goodenough

Jim Hogan

Yatin Trivedi & Mark Templeton

Michael Keating

Yatin Trivedi & Shay Gal-On

Shishpal Rawat

Guest: Adam Trachtenberg, Director of Developer Network at LinkedIn
Hosts: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys, Inc. and Yvette Huygen, Director, Worldwide Public Relations and Corporate Communications, Synopsys, Inc.

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Currently, there is debate in our industry about whether social networks benefit engineers in their work. We invited Adam Trachtenberg to come share with us how he believes LinkedIn can benefit engineers. Learn from Adam not only how to maximize your professional identity on LinkedIn, but also how LinkedIn can be used as a resource to help you do better in your job and be more successful in your career as an engineer. Adam teaches you how to find and separate the magnitude of content on LinkedIn into digestible pieces that hone in on the hottest topics in your industry. Yvette and Karen also asked Adam for tips for professionals who wish to participate in online conversations in their industry but hesitate.

Links of Interest
LinkedIn
Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Plugin
LinkedIn Today

Guest: Jack Greenbaum, Director of Engineering, Advanced Products, Green Hills Software

Hosts: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc. and Yvette Huygen, Director, Worldwide Public Relations and Corporate Communications, Synopsys, Inc.

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System on Chip design is both a hardware and software ordeal. Jack Greenbaum has much experience with both sides and shares valuable insights into how both hardware and software tools can address and prevent the inherent time-to-market problems that bedevil every design that integrates hardware IP.  He talks about virtual platforms, partitioning, and the cultural divide between software and hardware engineers. Finally, if you are an engineering student, Jack tells you  how to prepare yourself to cross the divide between hardware and software engineering in your future career.

Links of interest:

Green Hills Technologies

Host: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc.

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Guest: Kumaran Santhanam, CEO of Total Phase

Host: Yvette Huygen, Director, Worldwide PR & Corporate Communications, Synopsys

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We were very excited to welcome Kumaran Santhanam into our studio for this episode of Conversation Central to talk about embedded design. Over ten years ago, Kumaran was an embedded systems consultant who designed systems for clients all the way from the low level to higher level types of software. During his time as a consultant, he saw a consistent lack of available tools for embedded engineers to help them complete their projects more quickly and efficiently. He saw this as an opportunity to start a company that developed these types of tools, and Total Phase was founded.

Now ten years since he founded Total Phase, Kumaran shared with us what he believes embedded engineers are looking for and what their biggest challenges are. He shares how embedded design has changed over the years and how all of the complexity has made embedded engineers think differently about their designs.

Kumaran also touched on USB 3.0, how IP plays a role in managing complexity, and what is done to try to improve communication between software and hardware engineers.

Lastly, Kumaran lists the trends in embedded design, what he sees happening as we move forward, and gives advice to embedded engineers on how to deal with the complexity of these trends.

Links of interest:

Total Phase

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Guests: John Donovan, Editor/Publisher Low-Power Design and author of Donovan’s Brain blog, John Reardon, President, The RTC Group

Hosts: Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Community Marketing, Synopsys Inc., Yvette Huygen, Director, Worldwide Public Relations and Corporate Communications, Synopsys Inc.

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This episode of Conversation Central features a summer rerun of The New Publishing Paradigm, an interesting discussion between John Donovan and John Reardon about print verses online media. This show aired at DAC 2010, but this topic still remains extremely relevant in 2011.  A shift is occurring in the way individuals choose to consume information, and this shift is a contemporary issue that both companies and the media cannot ignore. John Donovan and John Reardon discuss why more and more content is being moved from print to online, but also why people still like print. Learn about the pros and cons of both online media and print and how to find credibility in both.

This episode includes new commentary from your hosts, Karen as Yvette, as they reflect on the relevance of this topic a year after the original air date.

Links of interest:

The Listening Post blog interview: John Reardon on Print versus Web

The New Publishing Paradigm (DAC 2010)

Synopsys Journal

Low-Power Design

Donovan’s Brain blog

The RTC Group

This radio show was originally recorded at the Synopsys exhibition booth at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim, California on June 14, 2010.