Report on DATE 2017 in Lausanne

Dr. Doug Burger from Microsoft, who talked about “A New Era of Hardware Microservices in the Cloud.” In addition, a keynote lecture by Prof. Giovanni De Micheli (Professor at EPFL and Director of Nano-Tera.ch) was given on “Distributed Systems for Health and Environmental Monitoring” within the Nano-Tera.ch initiative. On the same day, an Executive Panel Session and three Innovative Technologies and Applications (IT&A) Sessions offered a series of business panels discussing hot topics. Executive speakers from companies leading the design and automation industry addressed some of the complexity issues in electronics design and discussed the advanced technology challenges and opportunities. A special session was dedicated to  The Design, AuTomATion, and Test in Europe (DATE) 2017 Conference and Exhibition closed doors last Friday, March 31, 2017, receiving more than 1,500 registrations from over 50 countries and ending with excellent feedback from both participants and exhibitors. 2017 was a special year for the world’s favorite electronic systems design and test conference, as the community celebrated its 20th edition, and it was held for the first time in Switzerland, at the SwissTech Convention Center on the EPFL campus in Lausanne, from March 27–31, 2017.