ICCAD-2002
November 10-14, 2002
DoubleTree Hotel San Jose
San Jose, California   USA

Dear Colleague,

We would like to invite you to participate in the 20th International
Conference on Computer Aided Design (http://www.iccad.com).  Following
are a few of the exciting highlights at this year's conference:

- Sunday workshop on Open Source and Open Standards with
 sessions on:
    *  OpenAccess data base
    *  Open source circuit simulation
    *  SystemC and SystemVerilog
    *  OpenVera/Forspec and TestBuilder/Sugar
- Monday keynote on 
    *  "The Future of Electronic Games and the impact on DA"
- Evening panel discussions on Sunday and Monday on:
    *  "Open Source: EDA's Next Wave or Yesterday's Hype?" and
    *  "Cad for Cad's Sake? Are CAD and Design Diverging?"
- Tuesday anniversary dinner to celebrate 20 years of ICCAD
    featuring San Francisco Taiko Dojo Drummers
- 105 paper presentation selected from 381 submissions
- Two invited sessions on emerging design challenges
- Five embedded tutorials on a variety of hot EDA topics including:
    *  MTCMOS
    *  CAD challenges from modern lithography
    *  Molecular Electronics
    *  SAT & ATPG in Synthesis and Verification
    *  A to Z of SoCs
- Four full-day tutorials
    *  High Performance Integrated Circuit Analysis and Design
    *  FPGA's: CAD, Applications and Future Architectures
    *  Specification and Design of Multi-million Gate SOC's
    *  Placement - the Key Problem in Physical Design
- ICCAD Marketplace - a new forum to meet the R&D folks from   EDA
companies
- Sunday CADathlon, a full day student programming competition 
  sponsored by ACM/SIGDA
- Every attendee will receive a copy of "The Best of ICCAD" a 
  collection of the best ICCAD papers of the past 20 years with 
  historical commentaries and industrial view points.

We are excited about the 2002 conference and the festivities of the 20th
Anniversary celebration.  We look forward to a great close of the first
twenty years and an exciting kick-off for the next 20 years of ICCAD.

Registration is now open!!  You can visit the ICCAD website at
http://www.iccad.com for on-line registration, conference hotel rates,
and full details on the entire technical program and events at ICCAD.

We look forward to seeing you in November!


Larry Pileggi                              Andreas Kuehlmann
General Chair                              Program Chair



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