You are invited to submit an abstract for the User Track at DAC at the Anaheim Convention Center, June 13-18, 2010. DAC 2010 is seeking contributions that highlight challenges and benefits of EDA tool usage. The tools used may be from vendors, in-house, or the result of combining point tools. Submissions from end-users, application engineers, or a vendor-customer team are especially encouraged. The tool use may target system-level design or design back-end at all levels, and across all application domains. The topics are at the interface between design and automation, an area that until recently has been underrepresented.

How to submit?
The overhead for an initial submission is minimal: a two-page abstract describing your work. A suitable user track paper has at its core a flow for combining and applying point-tool design, optimization, and analysis to build blocks that achieve particular design goals. A paper may be specific in scope (e.g., floorplan-stage substrate coupling) and/or application domain (e.g., designing wireless handsets). The submission deadline is January 18, 2010. Additional information regarding the submission process can be found at the DAC website: http://www.dac.com/47th/UTinfo.html

ESL Models and their Application, a new book by Brian Bailey and Grant Martin is now available. I should be getting my author copies soon, and if anyone is interested in doing a full review of it for this site, I will get a copy to you.

SystemVerilog Snippets for Emacs
http://verificationguild.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=17042#17042

See http://coverification.org/2009/12/17/systemverilog-snippets-for-emacs/
It's pretty good!
Ben

Added on the VerificationGuild a post on
"Comments on Clifford Cummings Coding Concise SVA"
http://verificationguild.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3660

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