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February 14, 2008 04:00 AM Pacific Time

ISQED'08 Addresses Nanoscale Design & Manufacturing Challenges and Solutions with Over 150 Technical Presentations

Industry and Academia Leaders Focus on Critical DFM and DFQ Design Solutions
ISQED'08

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 9th annual International Symposium and Exhibitions on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’08) today announced keynote speeches by industry leaders from Cadence, IBM, Mentor, Microsoft, and Synopsys. Additionally the upcoming conference will feature twenty-three technical sessions with over 150 papers on various challenging topics related to design, design automation, design for manufacturability and quality, panel discussions, tutorials, and vendor exhibits. The conference will be held on March 17-19, 2008 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, CA, USA.

"In light of today's electronics market dynamic, an unprecedented amount of close and comprehensive collaboration between design, EDA, and manufacturing is required,” said Robert Hum, vice president and general manager at Mentor Graphics Corporation, and ISQED keynote speaker. "ISQED helps to forge the bonds needed to meet the challenges posed by this dynamic, and promotes the quality in engineering that creates cooperation among all interdependent technologies.”

ISQED08 plenary keynoters will offer valuable perspectives from design, process, and tool methodologies point of views. List of keynote speakers include:

* Rich Goldman, Vice-President, Strategic Alliances, Synopsys Inc.
* Drew Gude, Director, High Tech & Electronics Industry Solutions, Microsoft Corporation
* Robert Hum, Vice President & General Manager, Design Verification and Test Division, Mentor Graphics Corporation
* Sanjiv Taneja, Vice President, Encounter Test business unit, Cadence Design Systems Inc.
* Chandu Visweswariah, Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
* Antun Domic, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Synopsys Inc.

The robust and high-quality technical agenda of this leading conference will include technical panel discussion sessions, where many leading experts address the important issue of quality design. These panels would focus on the following topics:

1. DFM: Is it Helping or Hurting?

2. Statistical Design - Solutions Searching for Problems?

3. ESL 2.0- Is Anybody Using It 2.0?

Multiple interactive tutorials will also be available for those who desire in-depth, interactive, and focused insight into the various aspects of electronic design. These tutorials will cover critical and exciting topic such as High-k dielectrics, metal gates, Low Voltage Circuit Design Techniques for Sub-32nm Technologies, 3D Integration Technology, Robust System Design in Scaled CMOS, Caches in Multi-Core, eDRAM, and explore best DFM practices.

ISQED 2008 corporate sponsors include Synopsys, Microsoft, Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics, Magma Design Automation, Ponte Solutions, and Silicon Valley Technical Institute. Media sponsors are EDACafe and Chip Design Magazine. ISQED 2008 is held with technical sponsorship of IEEE Electron Device Society, and IEEE CASS, and in cooperation with IEEE RS, and ACM/SigDA. The conference is produced and sponsored by the International Society for Quality Electronic Design. For more information regarding the tutorials, conference, vendor exhibitions, workshops, and hotel registration visit: www.isqed.org.

About ISQED

The International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) is a premier design and design automation conference, aimed at bridging the gap between and integration of electronic design tools and processes, integrated circuit technologies, processes and manufacturing, to achieve design quality. ISQED is the pioneer and leading conference dealing with design for manufacturability and quality issues front-to-back. The conference provides a forum to present and exchange ideas and to promote the research, development, and application of design techniques and methods, design processes, and EDA design methodologies and tools that address issues which impact the quality of the realization of designs into physical integrated circuits. Visit ISQED at http://www.isqed.org.