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14 March 2005

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Pioneering Technologists to Keynote 42nd Design Automation Conference with Emphasis on Continued Innovation

The Design Automation Conference (DAC), the electronic design automation (EDA) industry's premier event, announced that Dr. Bernard "Bernie" Meyerson, IBM Fellow and Vice President and Chief Technologist of IBM Systems and Technology Group, will deliver the opening keynote address on Tuesday, June 14. A second keynote address will be presented on Thursday, June 16, by Dr. Ron Rohrer, Corporate Vice President of Advanced Research and Development with Cadence Design Systems and the Wilkoff Chair University Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University. The 42nd DAC will be held in Anaheim, Calif., June 13-17, 2005.

On Tuesday, June 14, Dr. Meyerson will present the opening keynote address titled, "How Does One Define 'Technology' Now That Classical Scaling Is Dead (and Has Been for Years)?" He will discuss the demise of the classical scaling of semiconductor technology that has driven performance and product economics in the IT industry for decades. His presentation will illustrate that the science driving performance gains in semiconductor technology is distinct from Moore's Law and the economic issues impacting the areal density of transistors on a chip. He will discuss the emergence of new strategies to drive continued progress in IT performance, such as Holistic Design.

On Thursday, June 16, Dr. Rohrer will deliver "Innovation in the EDA Business Need Not Be an Oxymoron," in which he will outline a renewable model for fostering EDA innovation as a managed process.

"I think the outstanding keynote presentations planned for this year's DAC will offer our attendees insight and inspiration that they will be able to apply to their own work, whether they are designers, tool providers or executives," said Bill Joyner, general chair of the 42nd DAC. "These compelling topics will continue DAC's longstanding tradition of provocative and informative keynotes of interest to our entire community."

Dr. Meyerson is Chief Technologist and Vice President, Technology, for IBM's Systems and Technology Group. He joined IBM Research in 1980, and led the development of silicon germanium and other high performance mixed signal technologies over a period of ten years, and subsequently led several large organizations within IBM focused on the development of communications technology, spanning the range from pervasive wireless enablement to high end data transport. Dr. Meyerson currently leads IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center, the multi-company technology alliance located at IBM's East Fishkill semiconductor facility.

Dr. Meyerson was named IBM Fellow, the company's highest technical honor, in 1992. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE and a recipient of the Materials Research Society Medal, the Electrochemical Society Electronics Division Award, the 1999 IEEE Ernst Weber Award for the body of work culminating in the commercialization of Si-Ge-based communications technology, and the IEEE Electron Devices Society J. J. Ebers Award. He was cited as "Inventor of the Year" in 1997 by the New York State Legislature, and was honored as the 1999 "United States Distinguished Inventor of the Year" by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In 2002, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2003 he was named by EE Times as one of thirteen people "who are influencing the course of semiconductor development technology and taking it into realms that exceed the bounds set by the inventors of the transistor more than fifty years ago." He holds a Ph.D. in physics from City College of the City University of New York.

Dr. Rohrer has been affiliated with EDA in various capacities-in semiconductor and software companies, in start-ups and established companies, in universities and in venture capital-for more than forty years. Presently he is with Cadence, working as part of an RF IC EDA advanced research and development team.

Dr. Rohrer is a Fellow of the IEEE and a recipient of the IEEE Education Medal, the SRC Technical Excellence Award, the 1996 NEC Computer and Communication Prize, and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium 2002 Phil Kaufman Award. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for his contributions to circuit simulation, which have enabled deep submicron IC design. He started his industrial career at Fairchild Semiconductor and has served as technical consultant and advisor to many leading EDA and electronics companies. Dr. Rohrer has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Southern Methodist University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon University, where he is professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering. An entrepreneur, he was founder of Performance Signal Integrity (later acquired by Integrated Silicon Systems and merged with ArcSys to form Avant! Corporation) and was chairman of Neolinear before its acquisition by Cadence. He holds a Bachelor's of Science from MIT and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

DAC is the annual event where the electronics design community meets for a week-long forum of information exchange on management practices, products, methodologies and processes. Attended by more than 10,500 developers, designers, researchers, managers and engineers from leading electronics companies and universities worldwide, it offers a robust technical program covering the industry's hottest trends. Its exhibit floor includes more than 225 companies, many of whom are startups just introducing their first products. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA), the Circuits and Systems Society and Computer Aided Network Design Technical Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE/CASS/CANDE) and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium). More details about DAC are found at: http://www.dac.com .

 

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