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March 03, 2008 06:00 AM Pacific Time

45th Design Automation Conference (DAC) Names Exhibitor Liaison Committee

Design Automation Conference 2008

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Design Automation Conference (DAC), the electronic design automation (EDA) industry’s premier event, today announced the members of the 45th DAC Exhibitor Liaison Committee (ELC). Comprised of volunteers primarily representing DAC exhibitors, the ELC members advise the DAC executive committee on exhibitor-related issues. The 45th DAC will be held June 9 - 13, 2008 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif.

The committee reviews all areas of DAC, including conference operations, technical program and exhibits and provides DAC management and executive committee with feedback and ideas for enhancing the value and success of DAC for exhibitors, vendors and conference attendees.

Chairing the ELC again this year is the EDA Industry Chair, Yervant Zorian, Virage Logic Corp. Other members are: Dave Reed, Blaze DFM, Inc.; George Harper, Bluespec, Inc.; Michelle Clancy, Cayenne Communication; Peggy Aycinena, EDA Confidential; Craig Cochran, Jasper Design Automation, Inc.; Jana Burke, Mentor Graphics Corp.; Rob van Blommenstein, Novas Software, Inc.; Herta Schreiner, Synopsys, Inc.; Nancy Weiss, Synplicity, Inc.; Drew McGrady, The MathWorks; Chuck Byers, TSMC; and Sabina Burns, Virage Logic Corp. Also participating are this year’s DAC Executive Committee Chair, Limor Fix, associate director of Intel Research Pittsburgh and an Intel principal engineer, and other members of the DAC executive committee; Nanette Collins, Nanette V. Collins Marketing & Public Relations; Anne Cirkel, Mentor Graphics Corp.; and Lee Wood, MP Associates, Inc. Contact information for each ELC member can be found at http://www.dac.com/45th/45elc.html.

“The ELC provides an essential role of representing the views of large and small exhibitors to the conference organizers,” said Limor Fix, general chair of the 45th DAC executive committee. “Yervant and the rest of the committee are leading important new efforts to help ensure the vitality and vibrancy of the exhibit floor such as new sponsorship programs, a new Exhibitors Forum and an improved exhibit-only registration option.”

About DAC

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and silicon solutions. A diverse worldwide community representing more than 1,500 organizations attends each year, from system designers and architects, logic and circuit designers, validation engineers, CAD managers, senior managers and executives to researchers and academicians from leading universities. Close to 60 technical sessions selected by a committee of electronic design experts offer information on recent developments and trends, management practices and new products, methodologies and technologies. A highlight is its Exhibition and Suite area with approximately 250 of the leading and emerging EDA, silicon and IP providers. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA), the Circuits and Systems Society and Council on Electronic Design Automation of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE/CASS/CEDA), and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium). More details are available at: www.dac.com.