** HOT Chips 17 – The upcoming conference on August 14th to 16th will be held once again on the lovely campus of Stanford University.

Conference organizers say: "Since it started in 1989, HOT Chips has been known as one of the semiconductor industry's leading conference on high-performance microprocessors and related integrated circuits. The conference is held once a year in August on the Stanford University campus in the center of the world's capital of electronics activity, Silicon Valley. The conference emphasis this year, as in previous years, is on real products and realizable technology."

** FPL – The International Conference on Field Programmable Logic will be in charming Tampere, Finland from August 24th to 26th.

Conference organizers say: "FPL is the oldest and largest international conference on all aspects of Field Programmable Logic, Reconfigurable Computing, and Applications."

** 2005 EDA Tech Forum - Mentor Graphics, as well as Altera, Artisan/ARM, Chartered Semiconductor, The Mathworks, VSIA, and Accellera will be sponsoring this series of conferences in the coming months. Organizers say that each conference will include: "Technical sessions and hands-on self-paced workshops [that] address real-life design issues in IC nanometer design, functional verification, integrated system design, and emerging technologies, with presenters from [sponsoring] companies." All told, 18 conferences are scheduled for various venues worldwide in 2005 including: Dallas, Texas; Phoenix, Boston, San Jose, Ottawa, Dresden, Reading, Paris, Penang, Bangalore, New Delhi, Beijing, Shanghai, Hsinchu, Seoul, Tokyo, and Kyoto." Oh my - get out that atlas!

** IMEC CALIT International School Events – IMEC has announced their new Center for Advanced Learning in Information Technologies (CALIT) as a platform for high-level events and training programs that focus on visionary and interdisciplinary themes. Here are some events you might consider attending in Leuven, Belgium:

The first two meetings took place in May. The third symposium, scheduled for September 1st, will address the convergence of nanometer-scale sciences and the methods needed to bridge the gap between manmade and biological systems through nanotechnology. At this event, experts will discuss what can be realistically expected from this convergence and how society should prepare for the impact of this new technology.

** CDNLive! Silicon Valley – This conference will be hosted by the new Cadence Users Group – "The Cadence Designer Network" – and will be taking place September 12th to the 14th not surprisingly in Silicon Valley. Organizers say this is a "customer-driven technical forum that gives you the opportunity to interact with other designers-and with the Cadence engineers who develop the technologies you use."

** Denali MemCon 2005 – Organizers say this is "the industry's premier event for leading-edge trends in the business and technology of semiconductor memory, storage, and chip-to-chip communications." Each event includes keynotes, panel discussions, and more. Upcoming dates include MemCon Tokyo on September 15th and 16th at the Tokyo Conference Center, and MemCon San Jose on October 12th and 13th at Santa Clara.

** ASIC/SOC Conference – This International meeting takes place in fast-paced Washington, D.C. from September 25th to 28th.

Conference organizers say the event will be peppered with tutorials, panels, technical sessions and every other good thing that you would expect from a highly regards IEEE gathering.

** SAME 2005 is inviting you to submit a paper to their upcoming 2005 conference, to be held in the Science Technological Park of Sophia Antipolis, France on October 5th and 6th. Organizers says this year, the main topic for the forum will be System in Package & System on Chip. Of course there are other categories as well, so you should be checking out the website and figuring out where to position your work.

** ISoC – Note Early Registration is now open for the 3rd International System-on-Chip Conference and Exhibition will be held November 1st and 2nd in Newport Beach, CA. Organizers say the theme for the conference will be "SoC in Wireless Applications." They also say, "Track & Session presenters, keynote speakers, and panel members who can contribute their professional expertise have a wonderful opportunity to share their innovative SoC technology/products at this event with a very focused and targeted audience."

** ICCAD-2005 will be held at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose from November 6th to the 10th. This is one of the 'real' conferences – real engineering, real science, real stuff. Please note that organizers say that this year, "in addition to traditional CAD topics, ICCAD has expanded its focus to include innovative design technologies for devices, circuits, and systems."