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Pain
and Parallel Programming:
Who, What, Why and How to Approach Parallel Programming
This paper discusses
the history and the drivers that are moving us to
parallel programming followed by a discussion of the
three possible approaches to parallel programming
(Threading, API and Concurrent languages)...
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ESL
– The Software Story
by Daya Nadamuni
In the software
domain the free lunch is disappearing. The free lunch
refers to the bloat that software programs were undergoing
as hardware became faster and faster. Performance
gains in software came more from technology advances
in hardware than in software. However now that the
multicore era is here to stay, a balancing act needs
to happen between the software and hardware domains
to achieve optimal system design...
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GSEDA@DAC
2007 presentations and Research Viewpoints:
Went to GSEDA@DAC's event Sunday night but want to
know more? Missed DAC and want to find out what were
the hot topics? Purchase all four presentations ($1000)
or for an in-depth review, purchase each individual
presentation and research viewpoint for $500.
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GSEDA@DAC:
Multicore Processor Considerations in Modern Day
SoC Designs
presentation and Research
Viewpoint
by Tom Starnes
Modern SoC designs
no longer use just a single general-purpose RISC
processor, but may utilize a number of processor
elements. Multiple processors on-chip further complicate
the chip design, forcing design tools to expand
their reach even further. Software development tools
must not only integrate programs developed for the
variety of processors used but debug them with the
hardware all buried on-chip. Ultimately, the performance
of the end-system is directly linked to the processors
chosen, the effectiveness of structures in the chip
to support them, and the integration of the software
that runs on all those processors. Examples of current
chips demonstrate the complexity of processors in
use.
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GSEDA@DAC:
What EDA and Chip Designers
Don't Think About
presentation and Research
Viewpoint
by Mary Ann Olsson
What the EDA and
chip designers don't think about or envision are
the critical parameters at the end of the design
flow, where package and board assembly takes place.
EDA and chip designers can assign a specific package
at the model stage, but there are too many variables
that they do not adjust for that maximize the die
to package and system performance.
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GSEDA@DAC:
The Crises in Concurrent Programming or Preparing
for Multicore
presentation and Research
Viewpoint
by Daya Nadamuni
Programming multicore
devices requires good insight into parallel programming
methodologies and techniques. While parallel programming
is understood in theory, it is not very prevalent
in the mainstream application development arena
as most parallel programmes are confined to highly
data intensive applications such as weather forecasting
and very large scale control systems. However, with
leading semiconductor and system vendors trying
to grow their multicore platforms businesses, it
is becoming clear that good programming models are
very necessary to help their platforms to succeed
in the marketplace. This poses a tremendous challenge
to both the design community and the design tools
vendors as they stand on the brink of the move to
a new market paradigm.
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GSEDA@DAC:
Alive and Well But Software Challenged
presentation and Research
Viewpoint
by Gary Smith
The design world
is changing. With those changes the EDA Vendors
customers are looking for the EDA Industry to help
them with the number one problem in design today:
the embedded software design problem.
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What
To See @ DAC 2007:
There have been
a lot of questions about just what this list is and…isn’t…
The reason for this list is to give engineers a way
of identifying the important new tools being shown
at DAC… “How can you leave this tool off
of the list, everybody is using it?”…The
list is Software, Software, Software, DFM and Power
[and more]…
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ESL
Wallchart 2007:
ESL: Year Three
And Counting: The idea of ESL has been around since
the early 1990s...the imminent arrival of the "magic
green button"...The methodology to put these [3rd
generation] tools in place didn't really exist and the
tools were mostly point solutions. The current generation
of ESL tools though shows more promise...
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EDA
Wallcharts 2007:
The EDA Wallcharts
go back to the mid 1980s. Originally called “Who’s
Who in EDA,” they grew from a simple one page
spreadsheet…. To get a broader look at the trends
below is a graph of new vendors appearing in the Wallchart,
Mergers and Acquisition and vendors leaving EDA over
the past ten years…
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The
Texas Surprise:
The
consolidation of the semiconductor industry has been
a hot topic for at least five years. Although this
consolidation has usually referred to the elimination
of the IDM model, it actually is the consolidation
of those semiconductor companies that fabricate silicon
products. Today that means IDMs and foundry vendors....
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