43rd Design Automation Conference (DAC) Previews Technical Program Highlights; Themes Focus on Design Challenges for Next-Generation Multimedia, Games and Entertainment Applications
BOULDER, Colo.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—April 24, 2006—
The Design Automation Conference (DAC), the electronic
design automation (EDA) industry's premier event, today announced
program highlights for the 43rd DAC, to be held July 24-28, 2006, at
the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This year's technical program was
selected from the record number of 865 regular paper submissions, 78
panel submissions and 18 tutorial proposals DAC received. The result
will be a full and varied program of timely technical and
business-related sessions that will appeal to the interests of the
more than 10,000 attendees of this annual event. The full program
schedule will be available on the DAC Web site on May 8.
"Once again, we are excited by the advanced developments,
research, and insights that the global design automation community has
offered for this year's conference," said Ellen Sentovich, 43rd DAC
general chair. "This year's program committee has ensured that the
conference will provide high-quality presentations of interest to
academics, researchers, developers, designers, managers, and
executives in EDA, chip, and electronics companies."
This year's DAC has adopted a special theme focusing on
multimedia, games and entertainment, which will offer attendees and
exhibitors an opportunity to participate in a series of technical
sessions, DAC pavilion events and special activities on the exhibit
floor. These sessions will highlight the design of the latest
generation of multimedia, gaming and entertainment systems. Throughout
the week, with a concentration on Wednesday, leading technology
providers and consumer electronics manufacturers will be represented
in the panel discussions and technical sessions. Highlights will
include discussions of the issues faced by iPod and the Cell
processor, and the technology requirements for 3-D graphics in feature
films.
With 13 tutorials, four workshops, 18 DAC Pavilion presentations
and more than 60 technical sessions, the 43rd DAC's technical program
will offer more than 200 technical papers and presentations in the
following ten tracks: Management; System-Level and Embedded Systems
Design; Low Power and Thermal; Analog and Circuit; Interconnect,
Reliability and DFM; Verification and Test; Synthesis and FPGA;
Physical Design; "Beyond the Die"; and New and Emerging Technologies.
The System-Level and Embedded track saw the largest growth in the
number of submissions in 2006, with several papers exploring the
increased use of processors in SoC designs, issues of on-chip
interconnect and communications-centric/network-on-chip design.
Six full-day tutorials are planned, including two on Monday, July
24, and four on Friday, July 28. Topics presented range from ESL,
SystemVerilog, DFM, variability, chip and package co-design, and
techniques for design error diagnosis, silicon debug and defect
diagnosis.
Seven vendor-presented hands-on tutorials are scheduled throughout
the conference, covering a variety of approaches to low-power design
methods and tools.
For the third year in a row, DAC will offer the popular Management
Day on Tuesday, July 25, featuring a series of business and technology
sessions designed to offer mid- and senior-level managers a forum for
sharing information on key decision-making processes as well as
current technology trends. It will include a panel discussion on the
fabless model, a session on the choice of flows and implementation
technologies, and a second session on the design of graphics,
entertainment and wireless products. In addition, registration in the
Management Day includes the EDA Business Forum Luncheon and Management
Day cocktail party to give attendees the opportunity to network with
their peers in the industry.
A full roster of panels and presentations is once again planned
for the DAC Pavilion on the Exhibit Floor, open for all attendees.
Gary Smith, chief analyst with Gartner Dataquest, will continue the
tradition of opening the pavilion program on Monday, July 24, with his
presentation on EDA trends and "What's Hot at DAC." The Pavilion
Sessions will also include business focused discussions, an "Ask the
CTO" panel, the annual presentation of the Women in EDA Achievement
Award and this year's DAC Student Design Contest Winners.
Registration
Advance conference registration will open on May 8. To register
for DAC visit http://www.dac.com or call 800-321-4573 in the U.S. to
request registration materials. The advance conference registration
discount deadline is June 26.
About DAC
DAC is the premier forum for the electronic design industry to
exchange information on products, methodologies and processes.
Attended by more than 10,000 developers, designers, researchers,
managers and engineers from leading electronics companies and
universities around the world, DAC includes more than 240 exhibitors
and offers a robust technical program covering the electronics
industry's hottest trends to bring people to the event.
The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing
Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA),
the Circuits and Systems Society and Computer Aided Network Design
Technical Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE/CASS/CANDE), and the Electronic Design Automation
Consortium (EDA Consortium). More details about DAC are available at:
www.dac.com.
Contact:
Weber Shandwick
Kara Udziela, 503-552-3731
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