Executive Vice President and General Manager, Design Group
Synopsys, California, USA

 

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The Evolution of Synthesis – Dots and Dashes… Zeros and Ones

Tuesday, 11 December 2015 at 15:30 in BC 420

 

Abstract:

Apple’s iPhone and Synopsys’ Design Compiler are much closer relatives than one can imagine ! While the iPhone and Design Compiler belong to different branches of the technology “tree of life” : telecommunications and computer science, these branches, throughout their evolution, have crossed several times, deeply influencing each other. Conceived independently, at a certain point in time a twig of the first – telephony – required a twig  of the second – logic synthesis – in order to handle the growing complexity stemming from its incredible success. Over the time, logic synthesis has become a fundamental ingredient, not only for the design of electromechanical telephone exchanges, but also for the design of the modern digital smartphones, such as the iPhone. In this presentation, Dr. Domic will bring us back one hundred and seventy years, in the 1840s, to the roots of modern telecommunication and of computer science, and will show how the telephony has led to logic synthesis, and conversely, how Design Compiler has, so to speak, led to the iPhone. Dr. Domic will also show how telephony and logic synthesis have both followed the same, revolutionary, evolution path: that of convergence ! Convergence that has brought us from “dots and dashes”, and “zeros and ones” to where we are. The journey is not concluded, though : the evolution will continue ! There is a great deal of new technology ahead, that will allow synthesis to keep contributing to the development of many other waves of amazing electronic… things.

 

About the speaker:

Dr. Antun Domic serves as executive vice president and general manager of the Design Group at Synopsys, Inc. where he is responsible for leading the development of the company’s implementation and analog/mixed-signal product lines.

Prior to joining Synopsys in 1997, Dr. Domic worked at Cadence Design Systems; at the Microprocessor Group of Digital Equipment Corporation in Hudson, Massachusetts and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratories in Lexington, Massachusetts. Dr. Domic holds a BS from the University of Chile in Santiago, and a PhD in Mathematics from MIT.