Places

September 27, 2004


More good stuff's on the horizon. Check it all out.

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. You should be typing up your abstract even as we speak because Mentor also says that HP has given them some "goodies" that will be given away in a drawing to people who submit abstracts by October 8th. Details on paper submissions can be found at www.mentor.com/user2user/cfp/.

MIT Emerging Technologies Conference Showcase - Thirty companies were selected by a juried process, led by Technology Review, and eASIC Corp. would like you to know that they were among those chosen to present. Their message will be touted by Vinod Khosla, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who is a keynote speaker at the event. You can catch all of the action if you're on the MIT campus on September 29th and 30th. As an aside and again in honor of Lawsuit Week in EDA Land, eASIC would like you to know that their novel electronic design architecture is protected by 10 issued patents, not to mention some that might be in the oven even as we speak. (www.tretc.com)

ESL Methodologies Seminar - Aldec, Inc. announced that it will host a 5-city seminar series on system-level methodologies. Per the company: "Each seminar will be divided into two parts. The morning session will cover the SystemC methodology as well as implementation strategies for incorporating it into current design flows. In addition, lunch will be provided for those who would like to stay for a demonstration of Aldec's co-verification solution utilizing the ARM processors. The afternoon session will provide hands-on training using SystemC and will provide the opportunity to practice writing high-level test benches and other transaction-level modeling techniques."

It's going to cost you $99 to attend, but that fee will also get you design software, course materials including tutorials, and additional sample designs for engineers to take and review at a later date. Here's where you can attend: Boston on September 16th, San Jose on September 30th, Dallas on October 12th, and Austin on October 13th. (www.aldec.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 )

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 )