43rd Design Automation Conference Features Leading-Edge Theme on Multimedia, Entertainment and Gaming.BOULDER, Colo. -- The 43rd Design Automation Conference (DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter ), the electronic design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) industry's premier event, will feature many demonstrations of the themes of multimedia, entertainment and games, dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. "MEGa" by the DAC leadership. The majority of events and talks related to the design technology requirements of MEGa will occur on Wednesday, July 26. Additional Pavilion Panels include a panel on "Inside the iPod and PSP (PlayStation Portable) See PlayStation. ," a panel on technology requirements for 3-D graphics in feature films and a panel on the Xbox 360 design challenges as seen by an independent observer. "There are rapid advancements in home networking, digital-mobile TV, mobile-digital convergence, and many other consumer-centric design areas," said Andrew Kahng, DAC New Initiatives Chair. "Our 2006 MEGa theme is going to offer a great chance for the DAC audience to hear about the roadmap for applications, design challenges, and CAD challenges." Wednesday's MEGa theme program kicks off with a special session highlighting the best papers from the International Solid-State Circuits Conference International Solid-State Circuits Conference is a global forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and Systems-on-a-Chip. The Conference offers a unique opportunity for engineers working at the cutting edge of IC design to maintain technical currency, and to in the multimedia area, with presentations from Renasas/DoCoMo, MediaTek, National Chiao-Tung University and Samsung. It continues with two complementary events: an invited session on CAD challenges for leading-edge multimedia designs followed by a panel on design challenges for next generation multimedia, games and entertainment platforms. These two sessions include experts from STMicroelectronics, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , nVidia, PixelWorks, Samsung and Intel. Finally, a regular paper session has the best submitted papers organized around the theme of power-constrained design for multimedia. The 2006 MEGa theme will also see discussions of design enablement -- compilers, programming models, and so forth--plus coverage of design for reuse. Registration To register for DAC visit http://www.dac.com or call 1-800-321-4573 in the U.S. to request registration materials. The advance conference registration discount deadline is June 26. 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 (body) Association for Computing - (ACM, before 1997 - "Association for Computing Machinery") The largest and oldest international scientific and educational computer society in the industry. 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 Not to be confused with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-e (IEEE/CASS/CANDE), and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium). More details about DAC are available at: www.dac.com. |
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