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October 02, 2007 10:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time

International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) Celebrates its 25th Anniversary with Nine New Leading-Edge Tutorials

International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry's top technical conference, is now previewing its technical tutorial program which includes both in-depth EDA and embedded tutorials delivered by leading speakers.

The conference, which celebrates its 25th anniversary, will be held November 5-8 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California. In the spirit of making tutorials more accessible to students, rates have been reduced significantly ($75 for IEEE members, $95 for non-members), thereby showing once more ICCAD's leadership in scientific and educational outreach.

In addition to this year's tutorials, ICCAD 2007 will feature two industry-leading keynote addresses, two outstanding panels, and numerous networking opportunities.

Technical Tutorial Program Details

In order to more effectively serve its increasingly international audience, this year's ICCAD starts on a Monday, versus Sunday as in previous years. As described below, on Monday, November 5, five in-depth tutorials will be held on the topics of parallel EDA algorithms, layout and post-layout variations issues and solutions, specific within-die variability issues, DFM routing and clock distribution, and deterministic modeling of timing and reliability.

* The first Monday tutorial, "Refactoring to Concurrency," will be given by Ken Wadland and Rahul Agarwal of Cadence Design Systems. This is a "hands-on" tutorial – attendees should bring their laptops and learn state-of-the-art techniques for parallel, threaded, and distributed programming.
* The second tutorial is titled "Within-Die Variations in Timing: From Derating to CPPR to Statistical Methods." Variations across a chip must be accounted for to get the benefit of DSM technologies. The advantages and disadvantages of different approaches will be covered by Chandu Visweswariah of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, an acknowledged thought leader in this emerging area.
* The third tutorial, "Addressing Variations - During Layout, Post-layout and Post-Silicon," covers what designers can do to cope with increasing variability during the various stages of the design and manufacturing process. It will be given by Praveen Elakkumanan from IBM Corp., Raj Varada from Intel Corp., James Culp from IBM Corp., and Michael Orshansky from the University of Texas at Austin.
* The fourth tutorial is on "DFM Routing and Clock Distribution," design steps that are both critical and complex in modern IC design. State-of-the-art techniques for dealing with these complexities will be covered by David Z. Pan from the University of Texas at Austin, Eric Nequist from Cadence Design Systems, and Simon Tam from Intel Corp.
* The fifth tutorial is on "Modeling Deterministic Timing and Reliability Effects in Sub-65 nm Flows." In addition to variability, IC manufacturing is limited by many predictable effects, which must be analyzed and modeled to accurately predict chip performance and reliability. These effects, and techniques for dealing with them, will be covered by Satya Pullela from Clear Shape Technologies Corp. (now Cadence Design Systems), Chandramouli Kashyap from Intel Corp., and Bruce McGaughy from Cadence Design Systems.

In addition, four embedded tutorials, which are included in the conference registration, will be provided on physical synthesis (Tuesday), nano-photonics (Wednesday), MOSFET modeling and formal verification (Thursday).

Over 750 attendees are expected to attend this year's conference. Please refer to the ICCAD web site (www.iccad.com) for tutorial information and registration.

About ICCAD

The International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) is the world's premier conference in electronic design technology and has served EDA and Design professionals for the last 25 years by highlighting new challenges and breakthrough innovative solutions for integrated circuit design technologies and systems. To learn more, please visit the ICCAD website at www.iccad.com.