Tuesday, June 11, 2002, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Room: Auditorium B

SESSION 6
  PANEL: Tools or Users: Which is the Bigger Bottleneck?
  Chair: Andrew B. Kahng - Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
  Organizers: Bob Dahlberg

  As chip design becomes ever more complex, fewer design teams are succeeding. Who's to blame? On one hand, tools are hard to use, buggy, not interoperable, and have missing functionality. On the other hand, there is a wide range of engineering skills, and tools can be abused within flawed methodologies. This panel will quantify and prioritize the key gaps that must be addressedon both sides.

    6.1
Tools or Users: Which is the Bigger Bottleneck?

  Speaker(s): Nancy Nettleton - Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, CA
Lambert Van den Hoven - Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Lavi Lev - Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA
Patrick Groeneveld - Magma Design Automation, Inc., Cupertino, CA
Paul Rodman - ReShape, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Ron Collett - Numetrics Management Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA