Places

October 25, 2004

SOPC World - System on a Programmable Chip World will be taking place in San Jose, CA, on October 27th, and in Boston, MA, on November 4th. Altera is hosting the event, with help from Aldec, Mentor Graphics, Infineon, The MathWorks, Micron, and Tektronix. The organizers say the conference will "acquaint you with today's most advanced programmable solutions, including: How to maximize performance for digital signal processing (DSP) & embedded systems, and how to use FPGAs to solve high-speed design, signal integrity & memory interface challenges." (www.altera.com/sopcworld)

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 )

Stars & Strikes 2005 - Cadence Design Systems is seeking a Silicon Valley non-profit organization to be the beneficiary of its 2005 Stars & Strikes Fund-raiser. Deadline for proposals is October 29th.(www.cadence.com )

Mentor User2User Conference - Mentor Graphics wants users to know that October 29th is the abstract deadline for submitting papers to the 2005 User2User confab happening April 27th to 29th in Santa Clara, CA. Details on paper submissions can be found at www.mentor.com/user2user/cfp/.

NanoTech Seminars - Hosted by Magma Design, the seminars will "provide designers, developers, engineers and managers with information on how to address nanometer design challenges ... At these informative and interactive technical seminars you’ll hear how cutting-edge semiconductor companies are using Magma’s IC implementation solution to reduce their IC development costs." This may all sound pretty vendor specific, but I'm betting that there's lots of learning to had nonetheless. November 1st in Beijing, November 3rd in Shanghai, November 9th in Hsinchu, November 15th in Santa Clara, November 16th in Boston, and November 18th in Denver. (www.magma.com.)

International SoC Conference - The 2nd annual conference will be at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Milpitas, California, on November 3rd and 4th. While you're booking your flight to Milpitas, The Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) would like you to know that they're co-sponsoring the event and that it's a "highly targeted and focused conference addressing the entire SoC-related chain, including semiconductor vendors, chip foundries, EDA-tool and IP vendors, and vendors of CPU and DSP cores. The show brings together leading companies from all over the world and provides opportunity to review the very latest information on SoC-related technologies. (www.savantcompany.com )

ICCAD - The International Conference on Computer Aided Design takes place in San Jose, CA, from November 7th to 11th. The conference is an all-encompassing event that addresses the myriad design and manufacturing issues cropping up at all levels of semiconductor device design and implementation. (www.iccad.com )

Denali MemCon - Denali Software, Inc. announced Denali MemCon will be on November 9th and 10th in Silicon Valley. Denali MemCon is held annually in Taiwan, Tokyo, Boston, and San Jose. This year's event in San Jose provides a forum for exchanging information about the technology and markets for semiconductor memory, serial interface standards and related system-on-chip design issues. The event is expected to draw more than 1,000 system architects and chip developers, will offer two executive keynotes, three panel sessions, and 40+ presentations from industry experts. (www.memcon.com)