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5 October 2009

Events News

Synopsys Recognizes Technical Excellence at SNUG Boston Conference

Synopsys, Inc. announced the Best Paper Awards for the eleventh annual Synopsys Users' Group (SNUG®) conference in Boston, Mass., held from September 21-22. SNUG conference attendees and the SNUG Technical Committee awarded first place to Garrett Marshall, Jalpa Shah and Scott Stanslaski of Medtronic for "XA Verification in Implantable Medical Design." Second place was awarded to Clifford Cummings of Sunburst Design, Inc. and Heath Chambers of HMC Design Verification, Inc. for "SystemVerilog's Virtual World -- An Introduction to Virtual Classes, Virtual Methods and Virtual Interface Instances." Third place was awarded to Douglas Burns, Barry Katz, Walter Katz, Mike Steinberger and Todd Westerhoff of SiSoft for "Multi-Gigabit Serial Link Analysis Using HSPICE and AMI Models." Among the other various awards presented, the Technical Committee Award went to Pete Nixon, Paul Rotker, Matt Cohen, Keith Morse and Bandish Shah of Sun Microsystems for "RTL Structural Analysis Using Design Compiler."

SNUG Boston is part of the largest user conference program in electronic design automation (EDA). Last year, the program attracted more than 6,000 integrated circuit (IC) and system design engineers to open forums in India, Taiwan, Singapore, San Jose, Germany, Israel and Japan. More than 350 technical users attended this year's Boston event.

Aart de Geus, chairman and chief executive officer at Synopsys, opened the conference with a keynote sharing his perspective on some important semiconductor trends. He also spoke about a number of Synopsys' exciting technology developments, including StarRC™ Custom, a new parasitic extraction solution, IC Compiler's new "In-Design" Rail Analysis and the Lynx Design System, a comprehensive design creation system that allows design teams to streamline their processes.

SNUG Boston sponsors included: Platinum Sponsors ARM, TSMC and Common Platform (Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, IBM and Samsung); and Gold Sponsors Hewlett-Packard and Virage Logic. The two-day SNUG Boston conference featured a technical program with 48 presentations that focused on all areas of design including synthesis, verification, low power design, physical design/sign off, analog/mixed-signal design, custom design, test and rapid prototyping tools. This year's program featured 23 user papers, 23 Synopsys technical tutorials, one workshop and one vision session. These presentations focused on the challenges that engineers face as they design complex systems for a wide array of applications.

Please visit the Synopsys Users Group website at http://www.snug-universal.org/ for more information on upcoming events and how to submit a paper for consideration by the SNUG technical committee. Customers can also access proceedings and the award-winning papers at this link.

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