Si2 Announces the Fifth OpenAccess Developers Forum with Speakers and Demonstrations from Leading Semiconductor and EDA Companies
AUSTIN, Texas—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 25, 2004—
The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) today announced
that its fifth OpenAccess Developers Forum will be held on November
11, 2004, at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California.
The Forum will feature speakers and demonstrations from several of
the industry's leading semiconductor and electronic design automation
(EDA) companies, including AMD, Cadence Design Systems, CiraNova,
Freescale, IBM, Mentor Graphics, MEMsCAP, and Silicon Navigator.
The featured keynote speaker is John Darringer, Manager of System
Level Design, TJ Watson Research Center, IBM Microelectronics, who
will be addressing the evolving role of the OpenAccess standard in the
EDA industry. He will be followed by paper and panel sessions on
OpenAccess deployment experiences, information on the upcoming
OpenAccess release and roadmap, and unique OpenAccess applications
shared from academia sources. A new OpenAccess Logo Branding and
Certification program will also be announced.
A Partners' Pavilion and reception will be held after the Paper
Sessions, where OpenAccess Coalition member and non-member companies
will be providing live demonstrations of their products running on
OpenAccess. In addition, one and two day technical training courses on
the next release of OpenAccess will be held the following week.
For more information and to register for the conference and
training courses, visit http://www.si2.org.
About OpenAccess
The OpenAccess Coalition is a community-driven initiative formed
to enable the creation of tightly integrated flows involving
best-in-class commercial and proprietary tools and intellectual
property (IP), necessary to support design of today's complex chips.
This is done through an open standard data access interface (API) and
reference database implementation supporting that API. Leading
electronics companies with significant investment in CAD tools and
infrastructure, as well as many commercial Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) tool providers, have embraced the OpenAccess
initiative as a means to support rapid product development. The
OpenAccess Coalition operates under the governance and bylaws of Si2.
Si2 is a not-for-profit organization of 60 industry-leading
semiconductor and EDA tool companies focused on improving productivity
and reducing cost in creating and producing integrated silicon
systems. For more information about OpenAccess and Si2, visit
www.si2.org.
Contact:
Silicon Integration Initiative, Austin
William Bayer, 512-342-2244, ext. 304 (office)
