Sessions Will Delve Into Implementation Fabrics and Embedded Security; Keynote
Speakers from Intel and Mentor Graphics
BOULDER, Colo., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Design Automation Conference
(DAC), the electronic design automation (EDA) industry's premiere conference,
will be the forum to discuss hot topics in EDA this year, including
next-generation implementation fabrics, security for embedded applications,
and power optimization. Additionally, two dynamic speakers, Pat Gelsinger,
Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President, Intel Corp. and Walden C.
Rhines, Chairman EDA Consortium, Chairman and CEO, Mentor Graphics, will add
to the strong program offerings in San Diego.
"This year's program promises to be both informative and provocative, with
some of the most interesting dialogue around what will replace the ASIC
approach: structured ASICs, traditional FPGAs or perhaps yet another
implementation fabric," said Sharad Malik, 41st DAC general chair. "Also,
with the amount of confidential information carried on handheld consumer
devices approaching that of a PC, and embedded systems' increasing use in
military applications, we believe security for embedded systems is ripe for
discussion."
Increased activity in the embedded arena is creating pressure for
innovative design techniques to address power consumption. New approaches to
optimize battery-based performance will be presented for both processors and
memories across the gamut of embedded applications.
The three hot topics -- implementation fabrics, embedded security and
power optimization -- will be the focus of a number of workshops, tutorials
and panels.
Implementation fabrics
* What Happened to ASICs? Go (Recon)figure -- Tuesday, June 8,
4:30 - 6:30 p.m., Room 6B
* ASIC, COT or FPGA: Which Should Your Next Chip Be? -- Thursday,
June 10, 10:15 - 11 a.m., DAC Pavilion, Exhibit Floor
Embedded security
* Security as a New Dimension in Embedded Systems Design -- Thursday,
June 10, 2 - 4 p.m., Room 6A
Power optimization
* Low-power Design Methodologies and Tools -- Monday, June 7,
2 - 5 p.m., Room 11
* Power Modeling and Optimization for Embedded Systems -- Tuesday,
June 8, 2 - 4 p.m., Room 6C
Keynotes
* Pat Gelsinger, Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President,
Intel Corp.
GigaScale Integration for Teraops Performance -- Challenges,
Opportunities, and New Frontiers -- Tuesday, June 8, 8:30 - 10:00,
Ballroom 20ABC
Mr. Gelsinger will discuss the paradigm shifts to come on the road
to teraops performance, and how future design automation tools must
adapt for the industry to achieve gigascale integration.
* Walden C. Rhines, Chairman EDA Consortium, Chairman and CEO,
Mentor Graphics
EDA Industry Growth -- Are There Enough New Problems to Solve? --
Thursday, June 10, 12:45 - 1:45, Ballroom 20ABC
Dr. Rhines will address the problems most likely to be the drivers
of future industry growth, as well as some less likely
possibilities.
Other topics expected to generate considerable interest at DAC include
manufacturing-aware physical design and performance optimization of
dynamically reconfigurable devices. DAC will be held June 7 - 11 at the San
Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif.
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 150 exhibitors and offers a robust technical program covering the
electronics industry's hottest trends.
The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing
Machinery/Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA), the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Circuits and Systems Society
(IEEE/CASS) and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium).
For more information, including registration, visit the DAC Web site at
http://www.dac.com, or contact DAC management at 800-321-4573.
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CONTACT:
Nate James of Fleishman-Hillard,
+1-503-221-2378, jamesn@fleishman.com, for the 41st Design
Automation Conference
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