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14 July 2009
Events News
46th Design Automation Conference to Feature Special Plenary Panel on Green Technology
Attendees of the 46th Design Automation Conference (DAC) will have the opportunity to explore ‘green’ technology during a special plenary panel titled “How Green is My Silicon Valley,” on Thursday, July 30, from noon to 1:45 p.m. Moderated by Walden C. Rhines, chairman and CEO, Mentor Graphics Corp. and EDA Consortium chair, the panelists will explore the implications of green technology innovation for the electronic design industry. The 46th DAC will be held July 26 – 31 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
“How Green is My Silicon Valley,” a special plenary panel, will examine green technology, and consider its implications on system design, public policy and the EDA industry. Panel members from leading technology companies, government agencies, venture capital firms and startup companies will give their views on the potential value and effect of ‘green’ technology in the EDA industry.
The panel will kick off a half-day focus in the conference on all things green. Following the plenary panel, the technical conference will take a more in-depth look at power efficient design in the Session 43 panel “From Milliwatts to Megawatts: The System-Level Power Challenge.” Technical experts drawn from Nokia, IBM, EDA companies and the university realm will discuss power optimization at the system level. The green emphasis will continue with a special session from 4:30 to 6 p.m. called “Technologies for Green Data Centers.” Session 50 will describe the latest in computing, storage, and networking technologies as well as data center design and operation for different classes of industrial applications. The emphasis will be on building blocks and architecture of future green data centers, as well as technical approaches for improving energy efficiency (and thereby reducing total cost of ownership) of data centers while meeting thermal and power delivery constraints and service level agreements. The speakers from Hewlett Packard, IBM and University of California at Berkeley will discuss how our community can help tackle some of the key design and management challenges facing the current and next generation of data centers.
“How Green is My Silicon Valley” Panelists
The following notable experts will participate in the special plenary panel:
John A. "Skip" Laitner – Director, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, Washington DC
Thomas Jacoby – Director, California Clean Energy Fund, Cupertino, Calif.
Peter Williams, CTO, IBM's Big Green Innovation, San Francisco, Calif.
Dennis Buss – Chief Scientist, Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas
Ian Wright – CEO, Wrightspeed, Inc., San Francisco, Calif.
Registration
Attendance to the special plenary panel is included with both the Full Conference and Exhibit-Only registration options. For more details on DAC’s full program, and to register, please visit www.dac.com.
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