43rd Design Automation Conference Announces Second Integrated Design Systems Workshop.

BOULDER, Colo. -- The Design Automation Conference (DAC), the electronic design automation (EDA) industry's premier event, today announced it will offer an Integrated Design Systems Workshop for the second year on Monday, July 24, 2006. The workshop is aimed at design automation professionals who integrate and develop design systems.

This year's workshop features two sessions and is titled, "How Can We Solve the Challenges of Design System Integration?" It will bring together design system managers and design system providers from industry-leading companies to focus on what it takes to develop effective integrated design systems. Participants will assess the state of integrated design systems today, identify the top challenges remaining and discuss potential solutions.

"Last year's workshop drew attention to the need to streamline integrated design systems in today's industry and was a very successful event," said John Darringer, one of the workshop's organizers. "We are happy to offer this workshop again this year and look forward to discussing integrated design systems and coming up with solutions to meet these challenges."

Each session will include a closing panel which offers attendees the opportunity to ask questions and contribute to the discussion. The full workshop agenda is available at the DAC Web site: www.dac.com.

The Integrated Design Systems Workshop will be held on Monday, July 24, from noon to 5 p.m. at DAC at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Registration is $50 for ACM/IEEE members and $75 for non members. For more details, contact John Darringer at 914-945-2742 or via email at [e-mail]. To register for the workshop, visit the DAC Web site: www.dac.com.

About DAC

DAC is the premier forum for the electronic design industry 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 250 exhibitors and offers a robust technical program covering the electronics industry's hottest trends to bring people to the event.

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 Computer Aided Network Design Technical Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE/CASS/CANDE), and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium). More details about DAC are available at: www.dac.com.