Cadence’s Annual Mixed-Signal Summit 2013: A Mind Meld of Mixed-Signal Design Community

6 Oct 2013 • 2 minute read

If you're a fan of the Star Trek series (my six-year-old son and I watch it together faithfully!), you know the Vulcan Mind Meld. (If you're not a Trekkie, the mind-meld is a process of transferring one's knowledge to another person instantly).

Mixed-Signal Technology Summit, Oct. 10 at Cadence's San Jose campus, is the closest thing to a mind meld to share mixed-signal design practices and challenges among the design community. We've gathered members of academia, industry visionaries and the mixed-signal design experts for an event packed with technical insights and excellent for networking.

For this year's summit, we have Professor Terri S. Fiez from Oregon State to talk about 'Challenges in Emerging Mixed-Signal Systems and Applications,' Geoff Lees, Senior Vice President and General Manager Microcontrollers at Freescale, to talk about Internet of Things and related business opportunity and applications. The academic and industry keynotes will provide a good balance to what is current and what might be the challenges for the future.

Here are some topical highlights:

On the mixed-signal methodology front, Cadence's customers are leading the way to talk about the verification challenges/solution and implementation challenges/solutions targeted for bringing complex mixed-signal designs to the market.
On the verification front, Cirrus Logic and Cadence will introduce Digital verification methodology using Real Number Models focused on the latest IEEE 1800-2012 SV-DC standard (SV-RNM). Brian Fuller, my colleague at Cadence, has written an excellent blog on this topic.
On the implementation front, ST Microelectronics, MicroSemi and Rambus will talk about the latest advancements in the Cadence Virtuoso platform to enable seamless mixed-signal implementation flow.
On the cores front, we have Cadence's IP team to talk on the Cadence's latest mixed-signal IP portfolio that is available for customers.

Below is the agenda for the Oct. 10 Mixed-Signal Technology Summit. Attendees will receive a free copy of the Mixed-Signal Methodology Guide and can participate in a raffle drawing to win a GoPro camera or a Kindle.

If you are interested and want to participate, click on the link here to register. I look forward to meeting everyone at the summit.

Agenda

8:30-9:30 a.m.: Registration and Breakfast
9:30-9:45 a.m.: Welcome and Opening Remarks by Dr. Chi-Ping Hsu, Sr. VP R&D and Chief Strategy Officer, Cadence
9:45-10:30 a.m.: Academic Keynote: Challenges in Emerging Mixed-Signal Systems and Applications by Prof. Terri S. Fiez, Professor & Head EECS Dept, Oregon State University
10:30-11:15 a.m.: Industry Keynote by Geoff Lees, Senior Vice President and General Manager Microcontrollers, Freescale
11:15-11:30 a.m.: Break
11:30-12:00 p.m.: Mixed-Signal Trends-Foundry View by Douglas Pattullo, Technical Director, TSMC North America
12:00-12:30 p.m.: Mixed-Signal Solutions Update by Koorosh Nazifi, Group Director, Initiatives R&D, Cadence
12:30-1:30 p.m.: Lunch with R&D
1:30-2:00 p.m.: Mixed-Signal Verification Methodology using Real Number Models by Tim Pylant (Cadence) & Bhupi Manola (Cirrus Logic)
2:00-2:30 p.m.: Methodology for Verifying SerDes Bit-Error-Rate Using Real Number Modeling by Michael Hufford, Staff Design Engineer, Cadence
2:30-3:00 p.m.: Cadence-Mixed-signal Implementation Update by Steven Lewis, Product Marketing Director, Analog/Custom Marketing, Cadence
3:00-3:30 p.m.: Virtuoso Mixed-signal "Smart Power" Implementation Flow (case study) by Livio Fratantonio, ST Microelectronics
3:30-3:45 p.m.: Break
3:45-4:15 p.m.: Micro-Semi: OA Based Netlist on Top Flow (Case Study) by John M. Williams, Director of CAD Engineering, Microsemi IC Group, Microsemi
4:15-4:45 p.m.: Interoperable Database for Mixed-Signal Designs Netlisting by Mark Snowden, CAD Manager, Rambus
4:45-5:15 p.m.: Mixed-Signal IP Offerings by Cadence IP Team
5:15-5:20 p.m.: Concluding Remarks & Raffle Drawing
5:20-6:30 p.m.: Social Hour and Networking

Sathishkumar Balasubramanian

--Mixed-Signal Methodology Guide