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11 May 2011

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48th DAC Announces Pavilion Panels Featuring Interviews, Business Trends and Technology Advances

The 48th Design Automation Conference will feature no less than 18 Pavilion Panel sessions in the program lineup for DAC 2011. Complementing the more in-depth DAC technical conference program, the DAC Pavilion, sponsored by GLOBALFOUNDRIES hosts an eclectic mix of panels, presentations and interviews in Booth #3421 on the exhibit floor. DAC 2011 will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, from June 5-10, 2011.

Gary Smith kicks off the Pavilion program with his annual “Trends and What’s Hot at DAC” presentation on Monday, June 6th, from 9:15-10:15am. Other program highlights include:

Emerging technology panels on: tool, methodology, and infrastructure challenges of 3-D IC; the need for more accurate modeling and simulation technologies for 3-D extraction

System-level design: a debate about strengths and weaknesses of today's high-level synthesis (HLS) tools

Women in Electronic Design Careers panel on the excitement of being an engineer and an interview with this year’s Marie R. Pistilli award winner, Limor Fix of Intel

Business panels on: what EDA isn’t doing right; integrity issues in the global IP market; current changes in semiconductor ecosystem value aggregation

Synthesis and FPGA: discussions of whether C-to-FPGA tools are ready for the mass market; how IP stimulates innovation and drives new business models

Verification and test: panel on current verification methodologies, which technologies look good going forward, and how to use ROI as a criteria to evaluate tools

Embedded systems and software: The challenges facing multicore embedded systems development; where we are going with Android, MeeGo, and Linux;

Analog/mixed-signal/RF design: panel discussing the need to speed up the development of analog PDKs

High school students tell us how they use the latest tech gadgets, and what they expect to be using in three to five years.

Low-power design: a report card on the methods that have produced the best low-power results.

The Pavilion panel program wraps up at 5:00pm on Wednesday with an interview with Pat Pistilli on invention and reinvention of the EDA industry to meet the design challenges of the next half-century. Pat Pistilli, who shaped DAC since 1964, is the 2010 winner of the prestigious Phil Kaufman Award,

A full-DAC panel schedule and links to panel abstracts and speaker information is available at http://www.dac.com/conference+program+panels.aspx

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