Day 1 of CDNLive San Jose 2008

Suffice to say, Day 1 was quite a full day, with the highlight for me being some really good papers from end users (which is not to take anything away from the keynotes, or the Enterprise Manager Team's unveiling of "Enterprise Planner" and database today).  Long story short: when you add up the panels and customer papers, the day's themes seem to boil down to:

1.) It will always be a multi-language world, where usage gravitates to using a single abstract and/or high-level language (like e, SystemC, and Object Oriented SystemVerilog), and "low level" language like classic Verilog or VHDL.

2.) Multi-domain verification: whether it's HW/SW co-verification, or AMS, came up quite a lot today -- much more so than in the past.

Finally, true to my photo blogging pledge, here's a link to several photos I've snapped over the past couple days. (And yes, I promise to walk through these and annotate them with comments to put the images in context.)