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8 February 2011

Events News

48th Design Automation Conference Appoints Paul McLellan as DAC Knowledge Center Managing Editor

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) has appointed industry expert Paul McLellan as managing editor for the DAC.com Knowledge Center. The DAC.com Knowledge Center serves the broad community of electronic, system and IC design professionals, researchers, students, and others for whom DAC is essential. The 48th DAC will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, from June 5-10, 2011.

Spanning front-end, back-end, embedded systems and software topic areas, The Knowledge Center publishes a wide variety of articles. Technical reviews, technical deep-dives, whitepapers, how-to’s, opinion pieces, and “virtual interviews” are published at http://www.dac.com/knowledge+center.aspx and in a monthly newsletter sent to industry professionals, DAC attendees and academics.

Paul McLellan has a 25 year background in semiconductor and EDA with both deep technical knowledge and extensive business experience. He works as a consultant in EDA, embedded systems and semiconductor. Paul was educated in Britain and spent the early part of his career as a software engineer at VLSI Technology both in California and France, eventually becoming CEO of Compass Design Automation. Since then he was VP engineering at Ambit, corporate VP at Cadence, VPs of marketing at VaST Systems Technology and Virtutech, and CEO at Envis Corporation. His website is at http://www.greenfolder.com and he blogs on edagraffiti.com and Semiwiki.

McLellan will be supported at The Knowledge Center by Chuck Alpert, Manager, Design Productivity Group, IBM Austin Research Laboratory and Sudeep Pasricha, Professor at Colorado State University, both serving as technical editors of the Knowledge Center.

To learn more about the Knowledge Center and submission guidelines visit http://www.dac.com/.

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