The All-Purpose EDA Keynote
Today, it is April 1st and so it is tempting to do some spoof post, but most of those are lame. Plus, it is hard to surpass the BBC's 1957 news item about the spaghetti harvest. This fooled so many people since it was decades before the era when people would buy 00 flour and make their own pasta. It also appeared on?Panorama, the BBC's flagship news and current affairs program. In 1957 spaghetti came in a can, like beans, so maybe it was harvested like beans. It was also before the tradition to do things like this on April 1st.?Some people credit this three-minute segment for creating?the trend.
Or The Guardian's?1977?seven-page supplement?to the normal newspaper (complete with full-page ads) on the islands of San Serriffe, with the two main islands being Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse (and everything else in the articles being printers' terms).
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But something I wrote last week reminded me of a parody post I had done over a decade ago.
Back in 2009, I didn't have a job and, since we were in a deep recession, there was zero consulting work available. Big companies got rid of their consultants before they had to start laying off real employees. Small companies realized they would never get any more funding for the foreseeable future so they hunkered down and hoped their cash runway didn't run out. To keep myself sane and to force myself to keep engaged with the EDA industry during that period, I started a blog?EDAgraffiti. I produced a post every day, partially to see if I could do it, and partially because I was bored. Most of the pieces were serious, but I did one parody post on?The All-Purpose EDA Keynote. Someone forwarded it to Aart de Geus and he told me that he'd been giving that keynote for years!
Anyway, I mentioned it in a different blog post and that made me go back and re-read it. Even though it was written?in February 2009, I think it stands up well. I considered updating it to be a parody keynote for the modern era, adding in EUV, UVM, FinFETs, and all the rest that has happened in the last 13 years., but I decided just to run it unedited. EDA keynotes today are?less focused on EDA, for a start. And yes, I really did used to wear a suit and tie in those days.