Places August 25, 2004
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing will host its annual worldwide Technology Forums in three locations: September 3rd in Hsinchu, Taiwan, September 16th San Jose, California, and November 10th in Yokohama, Japan. The company says this year's forums - entitled "New Perspective. New Performance. New Choice." - will focus on the importance of looking ahead and aligning today's solutions platform for tomorrow's needs, as well as establishing a "smart" platform, one that provides customers with the technology, design and economic choices they require to address the complex challenges at 90 nanometer and beyond to achieve the desired silicon results. Sounds like if you miss this one, you'll be seriously under-informed. Plan on going. ( www.charteredsemi.com)SBCCI 2004 - This is the 17th annual Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design, taking place from September 7th to 11th in Porto de Galinhas, Brazil. Per the organizers: "The goal of the symposium is to bring together researchers in the areas of computer-aided design, and the design and test of integrated circuits and systems. The scope of the symposium includes technical sessions, and tutorial and panels, as well as an exhibition and working group meetings." ( www.sbc.org.br/sbcci)The SBCCI conference material includes this fascinating historical bit: "Porto de Galinhas is located on the south coast of the State of Pernambuco, in the northeast of Brazil. After slavery was abolished, the warning 'There's new chicken in the port!' was used to inform land owners that an illegal cargo of African slaves had just arrived. Since then, the former 'Praia do Porto' became 'Porto de Galinhas' ('Chicken Port'). Today, this paradise has one of the most beautiful beaches in Brazil with clean, warm green waters, natural tide pools protected by reefs, and thousands of fish of all colors to be seen." DATE 2005 - Donatella Sciuto and Grant Martin who are Co-Chairs of DATE 2005 Topic A4: Platform Design and VC Reuse Methods are encouraging paper submissions in topic area A4. The deadline is coming up fast - September 12th. Topics in A4 include: high-level and architectural-level issues in SoC design and tools; architectural trade-offs, design, performance and synthesis issues; performance, cost and power driven architectural-level synthesis; high-level synthesis (scheduling, allocation, binding); datapath, control and memory synthesis and optimization; and HDL-driven architectural synthesis. Pretty comprehensive! ( http://www.date-conference.com)SOC Conference 2004 - The conference, sponsored by the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society, will take place from September 12th to 15th at the Hilton Hotel in Santa Clara, California. Organizers say, "Driven by the rapid growth of the Internet, communication technologies, pervasive computing, and wireless and portable consumer electronics, systems-on-chip have become a dominant issue in today’s ASIC industry. SOCs have created new challenges in design methods, design tools, design automation, manufacturing, technology, and test. The SOC Conference provides a forum for sharing advances in SOC technologies and applications ... and includes three days of technical papers and a full day of technical workshops. SOCC 2004 is held in conjunction with the International Cadence Usergroup Conference at the Westin Hotel, which is across the street from the Hilton Hotel." ( www.ieee-socc.org)Gartner Dataquest Semiconductor Industry Summit - Per Gary Smith, " Hopefully you'll remember the annual DQ Semiconductor Conference. I remember attending them as a client in the 1970s and 1980s and participating in them as an analyst in the 1990s. Gartner has decided to restore it back to its position as the premiere Semiconductor, and of course Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing, conference. So this year we are presenting the Gartner Dataquest Semiconductor Summit. I believe it is important for you to attend and I'm sure you will agree if you do." This year's summit is taking place in sophisticated San Francisco (just up the road from pragmatic Silicon Valley) on September 13th and 14th at the very chic Fairmont Hotel. Hop on a cable car and come on up! ( http://www.gartner.com/us/semicon)******************** EDA Fundraiser for Myeloma Research September 15, 2004 Committee members include:
******************** MUSIC Panel - Magma Design Automation announced that its MUSIC (Magma Users Summit on Integrated Circuits) meeting in Santa Clara will include a panel discussion on design for manufacturability on September 16th at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The panel will be moderated by EETimes' Richard Goering and will include ESNUG's John Cooley, Magma's Premal Buch, Virtual Silicon's Barry Hoberman, PDF Solutions' John Kibarian, Mentor's Joe Sawicki, and OpenSilicon's Naveed Sherwani.( www.magma.com)EDA Consortium Panel - EDAC's Emerging Companies Committee is cordially inviting you to attend a panel on EDA Trends that You (simply) Can't Ignore - (namely), How Short Product Cycles Are Stirring the EDA Industry. If you attend the event on September 22nd in Santa Clara, California, you'll learn about which emerging semiconductor product trends are impacting the EDA industry and how these trends are effecting valuations of EDA companies. The moderator will be Charles DiLisio, President at D-Side. The panelists will include Kevin Morgan from MontaVista, Robert Payne from Philips Semiconductor, John Savage, from SVB Alliant, and Greg Spirakes from Intel. They'll discuss EDA Customer Trends including: redefining design investment in software vs. hardware, leveraging open source software to reduce product development cost, reducing EDA tool integration costs through tool interoperabilit, and changing EDA valuations. Given recent news in EDA, this last should keep us all on the edge of our seats. ( www.edac.org)Wescon/2004 - This annual event will be taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center from September 21st to 23rd. The organizers say the show has been "re-engineered" to address the total design and supply chain, and broadened to "focus beyond Electronics OEM to focus on the needs of the total supply chain for the electronics design, manufacturing and distribution process. With the guidance of the IEEE, the Exhibit Hall and Conference Program will complement one another with tech-centric keynotes, panel discussions and workshop sessions that directly relate to the products and services featured in the various Pavilions." Wescon’s one of the stalwart shows in the industry. Better plan on going. ( www.wescon.com)SAME 2004 - This year is the 7th annual Sophia Antipolis Forum on MicroElectronics, happening October 6th and 7th in Sophia Antipolis, France. Organizers say the event will be helping the industry "Face the Future of Microelectronics" by providing venues for discussions and demonstrations, and for exhibitors to display microelectronics related products. The emphasis, as always, will be on tutorials and technical papers, and a number of high-profile topics in and around the technology, economics, and politics of a global electronics industry. Next to San Francisco, tell me a better destination than Sophia Antipolis? You can’t? Fine, then plan on attending SAME 2004 in October. ( www.same-conference.org )IEEE ITC - the International Test Conference 2004 will be held in Charlotte, NC from October 26th to October 28th. ITC organizers say, "ITC is the world's premier conference dedicated to the electronic test of devices, boards and systems, covering the complete cycle from design verification, test, diagnosis, failure analysis and back to process and design improvement. At ITC, test and design professionals can confront the challenges the industry faces, and learn how these challenges are being addressed by the combined efforts of academia, design tool and equipment suppliers, designers, and test engineers." Sounds like you better plan on going to this one, as well. ( www.itctestweek.org ) |