Conference Activity Reflects Upswing in Electronics Industry
BOULDER, Colo., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The 41st annual Design Automation
Conference (DAC), held June 7 - 11, at the San Diego Convention Center, was
the scene of a series of major announcements in the electronic design
automation (EDA) industry, according to conference organizers and industry
watchers. More than 5600 attendees and 4900 exhibitors, visitors and guests
met on the sold-out exhibit floor and conference rooms to exchange the latest
design ideas and to debate competitive strategies for the global technology
market. Early numbers indicate the 41st DAC attracted the highest attendance
levels since the 38th DAC in 2001.
As the electronic design and design automation industry's leading annual
event, DAC draws the world's best and brightest developers, designers,
researchers, engineers and top-level executives from global electronic design
automation (EDA), semiconductor, and embedded systems companies.
Among the defining moments of the show were three acquisition
announcements. Mentor Graphics Corp. announced it will purchase 0-In Design
Automation. MatrixOne, Inc., announced it plans to acquire Synchronicity
Software Inc. Xilinx Inc. has acquired FPGA floor planning vendor Hier Design
Inc.
"The level of activity surrounding the conference clearly demonstrates
DAC's importance as a forum for EDA news and debates," said Sharad Malik, 41st
DAC general chair. "This year, attendees felt it was more important than ever
to stay abreast of both the business and technical trends, illustrated by
great interest in Business Day @ DAC and the sessions covering power
management, yield, impact of process variations on design methodology and
choices in implementation fabrics."
Conference organizers were also pleased to see unprecedented interest by
industry experts wishing to present at the 41st DAC. A record 785 papers were
submitted, 163 of which were incorporated into DAC's diverse technical
program.
More than 20 DAC paper and panel presentations are available for web
streaming on the DAC web site including keynotes by Pat Gelsinger, CTO of
Intel Corp., and Wally Rhines, Chairman of the EDA Consortium and CEO of
Mentor Graphics Corporation. The full-text copies of the technical papers
along with the presentation slides are also on the DAC web site. These
offerings give design engineers access to DAC information, online, year round.
Next year's DAC will be held June 13 - 17, 2005, at the Anaheim Convention
Center in Anaheim, Calif.
About DAC
DAC is the premier forum for the electronic design and design automation
industries 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 225 exhibitors and offers a highly selective
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/CANDE) and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA
Consortium). For more information, visit the DAC Web site at:
http://www.dac.com. Or, contact DAC management at (800) 321-4573.
SOURCE Design Automation Conference
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CONTACT:
Nate James of Fleishman-Hillard,
+1-503-221-2378, jamesn@fleishman.com, for 41st Design Automation
Conference
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