CONFERENCE PROGRAM & EXHIBITS GUIDE Stop by booth #1038 and find out how Dell EMC can speed up DESIGN EDA ESS & AUTO IoT IP SECURITY your EDA workflows. What you see might just knock your SoCs off! www.dellemc.com JUNE 18-22, 2017 | AUSTIN, TX sponsored by: in technical cooperation with: #54DAC GET THE DAC APP! ENCOUNTER THE WORLD OF IoT • Maker’s Market DOWNLOAD FOR FREE! GET THE LATEST INFORMATION • Find Your IP @ DAC – Part of DAC ATTACK RIGHT WHEN YOU NEED IT. • Teardowns DAC.COM • VR Experience: Enter Another Realm of Reality • Search the Technical Program • Find Exhibitors • Keep IoT Weird Tech Puzzle – Part of DAC ATTACK • Create Your Personalized Schedule All activities part of DAC ATTACK • Play DAC Attack & Download the App and Play to Win Win Prizes! Visit DAC.com for more details and to download the FREE app! GENERAL CHAIR’S WELCOME Welcome to the Home of the 54th Design Monday Tutorial Pass and also sign up for the Thursday Training Automation Conference: Austin, Texas! Sessions that attract your interest at the DAC website. Keynotes: IoT is everywhere this year, and our 9:00 am Keynotes What does the future hold for EDA reflect this.Joe Costello opens the day on Monday, telling us and IP? How did a small startup about his IoT startup, “Enlighted,” which is bringing automation company reinvent power supplies? to commercial and industrial buildings. Chuck Grindstaff begins Will machines understand human our Tuesday sharing with us the many reasons why Siemens emotion? What’s the opportunity for bought Mentor Graphics; I suspect one is to enable the joint innovation in China? company to be an even better design partner for your teams These are just a few of the thought- developing IoT products. Tyson Tuttle starts Wednesday off for provoking presentations you’ll find us, sharing with us the unique challenges of providing Silicon IP in this year’s 54th Design Automa- for IoT, and how companies like his are meeting these challenges. tion Conference program, which I’m Professor Rosalind Picard opens Thursday, sharing with us the honored to share with you. Here surprising things she has learned in her research at the MIT Media are some additional highlights from Lab on teaching machines to understand human emotions. throughout the week and I hope to SkyTalks: Just after lunch we present educational talks from see you around the conference: those deeply involved in the business or technology of design. Exhibits: We assembled hundreds of the finest vendors of design On Monday, listen to Professor Shojun Wei share with us the automation tools and IP, with the best products available to the explosive growth of the Chinese IC industry, and some of the market, some announced to the world for the first time this week! unique challenges and opportunities of this amazing expansion. Our exhibitors are eager to meet with you, learn about your de- On Tuesday, enjoy a friendly argument between long friends sign and verification challenges, and discover how they can help Simon Segars and Lucio Lanza as they debate how developing you overcome these challenges with better methodologies using and deploying products for IoT will upset our market and change the tools you own; or how you can apply new tools to get even the world; and jot down their predictions of who will be the win- better results, more quickly, and with more predictable design ners and losers in the market place. On Wednesday listen to cycles. Visit our exhibitors on the main floor of the Convention Dinesh Ramanathan describe how his company has reinvented Center Monday through Wednesday from 10:00 am until 6:00 pm. the power supply! Today’s power conversion was developed in the 1980’s and provides about 85% efficiency in converting AC Conference: We selected the best 160 original research papers to DC for our semiconductors – the rest is wasted as heat. His on new technical work in our area, and assembled these into a company’s new technology, and new transistors convert power technical program together with a dozen special sessions on the at greater than 95% efficiency – which is extremely interesting to most current topics in both the core of design automation, as well anyone running huge data centers, electric motors for cars, or big as in related areas including Security, Internet of Things, Auto- solar arrays. motive, Machine Learning, Intellectual Property, and Embedded Software and Systems. As a conference within the conference, How are you going to navigate all of this? Well, you are holding attendees of the DAC Research Program enjoy a special access the paper guide to find out what to do when! Read through this lounge on the top floor of the Convention Center, the Research guide, mark each event, talk, panel, exhibit, session, and tutorial Grove. You gain access to this very special program with the you want to see, and bring this with you every day, all week long. DAC Full Conference Pass. Or, if you are not that organized, Download the DAC APP from iTunes or Google Play, and mark the events and booths you want Design: We’ve verified a Designer Track of 8 invited sessions, 2 to see, and your phone will take you where you need to be, when panels and the best 48 papers where users of design automation you need to be there! technology share their experiences in using cutting edge tools to solve the most difficult problems; enabling you the audience And, I expect to see each one of you at the networking events to learn from their experiences and achieve better success in your Sunday night, and each evening after the show, and at the eve- practical design and verification experiences. ning venues up and down 6th Street! IP: We’ve assembled an IP Track with 3 invited sessions, 4 panels Mac and the best 12 submitted papers on how to choose, deploy, monetize and reduce your design complexity and risk by employ- ing IP in your next design. You gain access to the Design and IP Tracks with the Designer Special Pass. Education: We’ve created an education program with 9 tutorials on Monday and 6 training sessions on Thursday to enable you to gain insight into topics that while mainstream, might not be areas where you personally have the expertise that you would like to have. Access these educational opportunities by purchasing the Michael ‘Mac’ McNamara General Chair, 54th DAC 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS General Chair’s Welcome ................................. 1 Wednesday Keynote ...................................... 51 Conference Sponsors ....................................... 3 Wednesday Sessions ..................................... 52 Important Information ....................................... 6 Wednesday Design/IP Track Poster Session . 65 Networking Receptions .................................... 7 Wednesday Work-in-Progess Poster Session ...67 Keynotes .......................................................... 8 Thursday Keynote .......................................... 71 SKY Talks ....................................................... 10 Thursday Sessions ......................................... 72 In Memory ...................................................... 11 Thursday is Training Day ................................ 82 Workshops ..................................................... 14 Colocated Conferences .................................. 87 Opening Session & Awards ............................ 16 Additional Meetings ........................................ 89 Monday Keynote ............................................ 17 DAC Pavilion - Booth 1737 ............................ 97 Monday Sessions ........................................... 18 Executive Committee ................................... 103 Monday Design/IP Track Poster Session ....... 23 Exclusive Sponsorships ............................... 104 Monday Tutorials ............................................ 25 Platinum, Gold & Silver Sponsors ................ 105 Tuesday Keynote ............................................ 33 Exhibiting Companies .................................. 106 Tuesday Sessions ........................................... 34 Tuesday Design/IP Track Poster Session ....... 46 Tuesday Work-in-Progess Poster Session ..... 48 2 CONFERENCE SPONSORS u ACM/SIGDA u IEEE/COUNCIL ON ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION u ELECTRONIC SYSTEM DESIGN ALLIANCE 3 DAC ATTACK GAMING RULES & ACHIEVEMENTS Game Begins: 10:00am, Monday, June 19 | Game Ends: 4:00pm, Wednesday, June 21 HOW DO I GET POINTS? 1. Scan the QR Code at each participating exhibitor booth Encounter the World of IoT: Booth 521 located on the DAC Exhibit Floor • Maker’s Market There are different point categories for the exhibitors: • Find Your IP at DAC All Exhibitors 50 points • Teardowns Reception Sponsor 75 points • VR Experience: Enter Another Realm of Reality Amiq: Booth 1639 I Love DAC Sponsors 100 points ClioSoft: Booth 613 OneSpin: Booth 1547 • Keep IoT Weird Tech Puzzle TrueChip: Booth 741 • Find your IP @ DAC Platinum Exhibitors 125 points Cadence: Booth 107 All activities part of DAC ATTACK Synopsys: Booth 149 Download the App and Play to Win 2. Find a member of the DAC Executive Committee: 100 points Each member of the committee will be wearing a button with a QR code to scan. 3. Participate in DAC Activities: 50 points Participate in the activities listed below located throughout the show floor and scan the individual QR codes (each QR code can only be scanned once): Virtual Reality Experience in World of IoT Pavilion, Virtual Reality Experience in DAC Entertainment Lunch Corral, TechShop Puzzle Experience in World