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June 01, 2007 06:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time

Informative Full-Day Tutorials at 44th Design Automation Conference

Design Automation Conference 2007

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Registration is still open for the tutorials offered on Monday, June 4 and Friday, June 8 as part of the 44th Design Automation Conference, happening June 4-8 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. A total of seven tutorials will be offered to provide design engineers valuable, in-depth, technical information on a wide variety of today’s most challenging design topics, including variability, system design for embedded multimedia devices, formal verification techniques, design of high-performance power delivery networks, soft errors, design and yield, and low power design. The registration fee for the tutorials is $300 per tutorial and includes continental breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, and tutorial notes. Attendees can register for the conference, including these tutorials, online at the DAC Web site, http://www.dac.com, or at the conference.

Monday, June 4, 2007:

Tutorial #1 -- Anatomy of Variability and Making of "Variation Tolerance" Vaccine in Nanometer Technologies
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Room 6C
Presented by Ruchir Puri and Samuel Naffziger, IBM Corp.

Tutorial #2 -- System Design for Multimedia Applications - Challenges, Design Methods and Recent Developments
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Room 6D
Presented by Radu Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University

Friday, June 8, 2007:

Tutorial #3 -- Formal Assertion Based Verification in an Industrial Setting
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Room 6F
Presented by Raj S. Mitra, Texas Instruments Inc.

Tutorial #4 -- Design and Analysis of High-Performance Package and Die Power Delivery Networks
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Room 6A
Presented by Eli Chiprout, Intel Corp.

Tutorial #5 -- Soft Errors: Technology Trends, System Effects and Design Techniques
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Room 6C
Presented by Subhasish Mitra, Stanford Univ.

Tutorial #6 -- How Design Meets Yield in the Fab
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Room 6D
Presented by Patrick Groeneveld, Magma Design Automation, Inc. and Andrew B. Kahng, University of California, San Diego

Tutorial #7 -- Circuit and CAD Techniques for Low Power Design
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Room 6E
Presented by David Blaauw, University of Michigan and Anantha Chandrakasan, Massachusetts Institute of Tech.

About DAC

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is the premier educational and networking event for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and silicon solutions. More than 11,000 designers, developers, researchers, academics and managers from leading electronics companies and universities from around the world attend. DAC features close to 60 technical sessions covering the latest research on design methodologies and technologies, EDA developments and trends selected by a diverse committee of electronic design experts. A highlight is its Exhibition and Suite area with approximately 250 of the leading and emerging EDA, silicon and IP providers. More details are available at: www.dac.com.