DAC’s Free Monday Returns to San Francisco. Apply Now. DAC’s in Three Weeks.

John Cooley’s DeepChip email this morning reports that EDAC, the consortium of EDA vendors, has decided to underwrite the long-time tradition of Free Monday at DAC which is coming up on July 27—less than three weeks from now. DAC’s at San Francisco’s Moscone Center this year, so it’s accessible to all of Silicon Valley with a short car, bus, or train ride.

If you want to take advantage of “Free Monday” DAC registration, go to http://www.deepchip.com/FreeMonday.html. Complete all four registration pages. On the third page of the online registration form, you’ll find a newly added “Free Monday Exhibits” option. You must check this box to get free registration for Monday. The fourth page of the form will show a web receipt with their unique bar-code confirmation on it. You must print this entire page and bring it to DAC on Monday, July 27, where you’ll present the bar-code page to the Advance Registration desk located in Moscone Center’s North Lobby.

Coincidentally, I’m on a Pavilion Panel at 1 pm on what’s now Free Monday at DAC. I’m joining EDA luminary Jim Hogan, Stanford’s Per Enge, and Sonics’ Grant Pierce. We’re discussing the long road to system-level signoff. Hope to see you there.