CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
29 June 2009
Events News
Cadence CDNLive! EMEA User Conference Energizes the Electronics Industry
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. celebrated the successful start of its series of worldwide CDNLive! user conferences. More than 480 delegates from 200+ companies attended the first conference, which took place in Munich, Germany, from May 18 to 20 before continuing on to Tokyo, Japan, July 16-17. The conference brought together Cadence® technology users and developers, along with industry experts, to investigate challenges and synthesize solutions. The central theme of this year’s events was to energize, inspire and educate members of the electronics industry to help them generate fresh ideas for tackling some of today’s most critical design challenges.
Attendees of this year’s EMEA event were welcomed by a keynote speech from Lip-Bu Tan, President and CEO of Cadence. Tan spoke about the ways in which semiconductor companies can succeed in the present economy, and that success lies within the development of new products that truly offer value. Technologies on the horizon (such as 4G, smart grid power, and medical electronics) and emerging markets offer an opportunity to re-energize the semiconductor industry.
In addition, guest speaker Ian Drew, Executive Vice President of Marketing at ARM, presented a keynote speech that discussed ARM’s business environment and strategy. He examined how current market trends such as “Internet everywhere” and “embedded growth” are driving innovation within the global semiconductor market, and how ARM-based architecture lies at the heart of many of these technological innovations.
“Our vision for CDNLive! EMEA this year was to focus on innovation, and to demonstrate how the use of advanced solutions, tools and methods in the design process can help our customers to launch successful products,” said Wolfgang Stronski, Marketing Director for EMEA at Cadence. “It is an exciting time to be part of the electronics industry, as the creativity of design engineers is assisting new technologies to help to define our lives. At this event, we wanted to help delegates learn new ways to overcome design complexities that will enable our customers to produce leading-edge products that can quickly respond to market and consumer requirements.”
This year at CDNLive! EMEA, Cadence hosted a special academic track designed for university representatives, and organized by Cadence Academic Network members with the aim to align and fuel the interactions between industry and academia. Universities from across Europe presented their latest design experiences based on Cadence solutions and design flows. Moreover, Cadence announced the winners of the second EDA contest for students in EMEA. Students from Portugal, France, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Greece, Sweden and Austria had signed up to participate and demonstrate their skills learned on the Cadence Virtuoso® custom IC design platform. Américo Dias and Daniel Oliveira from the Microelectronics Students' Group of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal received the title ‘Fastest full custom layout designer of the year’ by Cadence and were awarded with free training from Cadence Education Services valued at € 1.400.
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