DAC

About a week ago, I got an email from someone I know doing a story on how the Design Automation Conference has changed with respect to bloggers since the first EDA Bloggers Birds-of-a-Feather Session 2 years ago. I gave a thoughtful response and some of it ended up in the story, but I thought it would be nice to share my original full response with you. Has your perception of the differences between bloggers and press changed since the first BOF? Forget my perception; many of the press are now bloggers!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/optical_illusion/ / CC BY 2.0 What’s a blog without some sort of obligatory year end TOP 10 list? So, without further ado, here is my list of the TOP 10 events, happenings, occurrences, observations that I will remember from 2009. This is my list, from my perspective, of what I will remember.

Sean Murphy has the best one sentence description of DAC that I have ever read: The emotional ambience at DAC is what you get when you pour the excitement of a high school science fair, the sense of the recurring wheel of life from the movie Groundhog Day, and the auld lang syne of a high school re-union, and hit frappe. That perfectly describes my visit with Oasys Design Systems at DAC. Auld Lang Syne When I joined Synopsys in June of 1992, the company had already gone public, but still felt like a startup.

I’m writing to you today from a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in beautiful Southern California. There’s something about the atmosphere at a coffee shop that helps me get my thoughts together. Maybe it’s the white noise of the cappuccino machines or the conversations or music in the background. I’m not the only one of course. Daniel Nenni and his two great danes can often be found at the downtown Danville Starbucks. And like the show Cheers, there are regulars at my local coffee shop that I see most days I am here. Sales people and college students come here a lot.