Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Room: Auditorium A SESSION 22    PANEL: Whither (or Wither?) ASIC Handoff?    Chair: Michael Santarini - EE Times, San Mateo, CA    Organizers: Mark Miller, Sudhakar Jilla    The traditional ASIC netlist handoff is changing - but to what? Is RTL handoff finally a reality? Or, will a placement-based handoff model emerge? Are differences among underlying tool technologies and methodologies only cosmetic? Or, are there fundamental business and IP distinctions? These and other questions will be discussed as the panel examines the future of the designer - ASIC vendor relationship.      22.1 Whither (or Wither) ASIC Handoff?    Speaker(s): Tom Russell - IBM Microelectronics, Essex Junction, VT Kazu Yamada - NEC Corp., Santa Clara, CA Tommy Eng - Tera Systems, Inc., Campbell, CA Sandeep Khanna - Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA Kamalesh Ruparel - Cisco Systems, Inc., Sarratoga, CA