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20 May 2004
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Business Day @ DAC Highlights 41st Design Automation Conference Program
The 41st Design Automation Conference (DAC) is offering a day-long session on the intersection of business and technology called "Business Day @ DAC." It will be held Tuesday, June 8, at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, and is open to all conference attendees with full conference registration.
"Business Day @ DAC" offers a full day of keynotes, panels, and special presentations from experts on business topics that affect technology decisions and directions. It runs from 8:30 a.m. with the Opening Session and Keynote until 6:30 p.m., with some sessions running simultaneously.
One business session, "Competitive Strategies in the Electronics Industry," will explore topics on increasing competition in the age of globalization, patent portfolio management, and strategic marketing. Each of the three speakers will cover a broad spectrum of approaches, applicable to design, EDA, and intellectual property (IP)-based companies.
Another, "Business Models in IP, Software Licensing, and Services," will focus on pros and cons of various models used for achieving success, such as the tradeoffs and interaction between IP and EDA, software license models, and design and EDA services.
A panel will attempt to answer: "When IC Yield Missed the Target, Who is at Fault?" Panelists, representing a foundry, a fabless semiconductor company, an IP provider, two EDA vendors, and an IC design team, will discuss problems and solutions for achieving manufacturability and yield goals.
In another panel session, "What Happened to ASIC? Go (Recon)figure?," panelists will examine factors in the success of the various configurable platform options, and look to what the future might bring.
Pat Gelsinger, chief technology officer and senior vice president of Intel Corp., will deliver the opening keynote Tuesday titled, "Gigascale Integration for Teraops Performance-Challenges, Opportunities, and New Frontiers." He will address the many-faceted EDA challenges the industry faces to enable unprecedented teraops levels of performance.
The chief executive officer (CEO) panel is also part of Business Day @ DAC and is titled, "EDA: This is Serious Business." Moderated by A. Richard Newton, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, the session will feature executives from the big three EDA companies. Questioners are hardware designers, financial and market analysts and a member of the technical trade press.
Additionally, DAC is offering a line-up of panels and presentations in the DAC Pavilion on the Exhibitor Floor, including several business-oriented and strategic discussions, each open to all attendees. The pavilion program will kick off Monday morning with "EDA Business Forecast" featuring Gary Smith, chief analyst at Gartner Dataquest. Others include:
• User Forums or Useless Forums?
• EDA Mergers & Acquisitions: Glory or Death?
• Export Controls in the Age of Globalization
DAC, the electronic design automation (EDA) industry's leading event, starts Monday, June 7, and runs until Friday, June 11. More than 10,000 participants are expected to attend this year's conference, which will showcase more than 250 exhibiting companies-50 of whom are first-time exhibitors-and 200 papers, panels, sessions and tutorials.
Pre-conference registration has closed. On-site registration at the San Diego Convention Center opens Sunday, June 6. Conference registration is $410 for members of ACM or IEEE and $525 for non-members. For more details, visit the DAC website located at: http://www.dac.com Or, contact DAC management at (800) 321-4573 if you have questions or need more information.
DAC is the premier forum for the electronic design industry to exchange information on products, methodologies, and processes. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Circuits and Systems Society (IEEE/CASS) and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium).
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