Places September 9, 2004 This week's list of upcoming events adds a structured ASIC seminar and an ESL seminar. The list starts out with some content you'll want to access via the web.
Ray Bingham, Executive Chairman of the Board for Cadence Design Systems is speaking at the SG Cowen Fall Technology Conference on September 8th. The presentation will be archived on the Cadence Web site and available online for replay through October 8th. ( www.cadence.com)Steve Shevick, CFO and Senior Vice President at Synopsys, is celebrating my birthday by speaking at the SG Cowen 32nd Annual Fall Technology Conference in Boston on September 9th. The webcast replay of the presentation will be available on the Synopsys website following the conclusion of the live event. ( www.synopsys.com)******************* 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)Cadence User Group & 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. 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 User Group 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 Structured ASIC Seminar - NEC Electronics America, Inc. and Synplicity Inc. announced they will co-host a seminar in Minneapolis on September 16th "to provide insight into structured ASICs, a rapidly growing alternative to cell-based ASICs and FPGAs for designers working with low- to mid-volume applications." You'll be wanting to go because in keeping with the theme - "Hit a Home Run with ISSP Structured ASICs: Your Turnaround Time Advantage from 150 to 90 nanometers" - a ballpark-style dinner reception and a trip to the Twins/White Sox game is part of the event. Pass the peanuts. ( www.synplicity.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)Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing will host its annual worldwide Technology Forums in two remaining locations: September 16th in San Jose and November 10th in Yokohama. 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. Sounds like if you miss this one, you'll be seriously under-informed. Plan on going. ( www.charteredsemi.com)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-da.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 interoperability, 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 ) |