Keynote Speech at the SIGDA University Booth

SPEAKER:	Dr. William Joyner
TIME:	WEDNESDAY July 29th, 1:30pm - 2:15pm
LOCATION:	SIGDA University Booth on the DAC Exhibition Floor
TITLE:	The New Future of Design Automation Research

Slides from William Joyner's Keynote at the 2009 SIGDA University Booth at DAC The partnership of industry, universities, and government has served design automation well in the past. The Design Automation Conference features groundbreaking research papers and new product announcements, Ph.D. Forums and CEO Panels, formal verification and Wall Street prognostications. How can this partnership be preserved in the face of dire warnings about "the end of scaling," an uncertain economy, and migration to perceived "greener pastures"? But these factors, plus weird new technologies, difficult and diverse applications, and the rise (yet again) of parallel hardware and software should make design and design automation more, not less, critical, with performance gains relying more on what the ITRS calls "design equivalent scaling." This partnership must continue to support research and develop students grounded in science who can attack the engineering problems of design automation in this new world. The efforts of professional organizations such as ACM/SIGDA and IEEE/CEDA are part of the "glue" that holds this community together and can help it continue to thrive.
Brief Bio: Dr. William Joyner is Director of Computer-Aided Design and Test at the Semiconductor Research Corporation, a consortium of semiconductor companies, suppliers, and partners supporting university research. Prior to that, he was with the IBM Research Division for 35 years. He was General Chair of the 2005 Design Automation Conference.

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