Places Week of August 5, 2004 This week's list of upcoming events features a Multiple Myeloma fundraiser coming up in September, hosted by prominent members of the EDA community.
September 15, 2004 *****************************************
Dear EDA Colleagues, We would like to invite you to attend a fundraiser sponsored by members of the EDA community, which is being held to raise money for Multiple Myeloma research. Multiple Myeloma is a rare kind of bone cancer that is ultimately fatal. Currently, there is an emerging cocktail of drugs under evaluation that should enable patients to live with this disease similar to the way it has enabled HIV patients to continue to live a fairly normal life. Unfortunately, with current levels of research funding, it is expected to take five years for this new approach to become effective. However, if we can raise additional funds for targeted research to key research scientists, we can help to accelerate the research. Multiple Myeloma is a relatively rare cancer, but one that is a very good research target for several reasons. Because it is not curable, the patient population is highly receptive to participating in clinical trials. For the same reasons, the FDA considers multiple myeloma an orphan disease and encourages the development and approval of new drugs. It is also quite likely that the drugs that come from research into controlling multiple myeloma will be useful in treating other cancers. Funds collected at the September fund raiser will go towards three research facilities focused on Mylenoma research, including the Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research. You can see their website at http://www.myelomasource.org/.John Cooley will MC the live auction at our event. In addition to your donation to attend the event, we would like to encourage you to donate an item to the auction, with a minimum suggested value of $200. If you have questions on the types of items that can be donated, please contact: Steve Munich at edacharity04@yahoo.com Please let me know if you will be able to attend. We will send out details of how you can make donations later. We hope you are able to participate in this event, and take advantage of this chance for us all, both as individuals and as part of the EDA community, to make a difference.
Sincerely, Simon Davidmann ************* Committee members: ************************************
Although this description may not exactly differentiate HOT CHIPS from myriad other conferences, rest assured the gathering is a highly focused one, this year covering topics such as performance comparison of state-of the-art volatile and non-volatile memory devices, mobile processing, wireless communication, graphics processing, optimized SOC bus architectures, outsourcing, and the ever-popular Potpourri - among others. ( www.hotchips.org)FPL 2004 - The international conference on Field-Programmable Logic and its Applications - taking place this year at the Hilton Antwerp in Antwerp, Belgium, from August 30th to September 1st - is described by organizers as "the eldest and largest conference on all aspects of field-programmable logic. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and industry from all over the world for a wide ranging discussion of all forms of reconfigurability and its applications, including, but not limited to: industrial applications, advanced EDA, research applications, novel system architectures." As programmability is no doubt the thing of the future, you shouldn't pass on this opportunity to attend, learn lots, and enjoy beautiful Antwerp as well. ( www.imec.be/fpl/)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 chichen 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." SOC Conference 2004 - The conference, sponsered by the IEEE Circuite & 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 trhee 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)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 ) |