ADVISORY/Antrim Design Systems, Inc. CEO Roy McGuffin to Participate in Panel on Analog Intellectual Property at DAC in New Orleans on June 11.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Design Automation Conference 2002 ADVISORY ... for Tuesday Tuesday: see week. (June June: see month. 11) --(BUSINESS WIRE) What: Panel titled, "Analog Intellectual Property: Now? or Never?" Chaired by Steven Ohr - EET/CMP Media ABSTRACT: With more and more Systems-on-chip makers hoping to include analog functional blocks as a means of differentiating their designs, it is therefore tempting to believe that analog intellectual properties (IP) can be created, traded and integrated with the same tools and methodologies with which digital IP are moved about. But is analog IP a viable business? Can analog IPs be traded -- given that design tuning is needed for every new chip variant, and every new process generation? Certainly, silicon foundries need to rely on a wide set of external IP offerings, in order to allow their users to build complete systems. Are they seeing enough activity in Analog IP designs to justify specialized fab runs, or the kind of process tuning that would allow analog and digital IPs to coexist on the same chip? What is the future of analog designs at the very low voltage-swings coming with sub-100nm CMOS? What CAD tools are needed to help analog designers? Are newly emerging EDA technologies, designed to enhance analog design productivity, maturing rapidly enough to be accepted by designers? Certainly many Analog IP providers and Analog EDA tool vendors would argue that the answer is yes. However, how many 'traditional' analog designers would admit they are still using kit parts and breadboards -- maybe Spice and manual IC layout techniques -- today in their every-day job? This panel of experts -- representing analog designers, analog EDA tool providers, silicon foundries and analog IP vendors -- will address these issues, and provide a likely context for analog IP development and trade. WHO: Speaker(s):
Roy McGuffin -- Antrim Design Systems, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA
Felicia James -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA
Rudolf Koch -- Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany
Masao Hotta -- Hitachi Ltd., Gunma-ken, Japan
Mike Brunolli -- Nurlogic Design, Inc., San Diego, CA
Andrew Moore -- TSMC, San Jose, CA
WHEN: Tuesday, June 11, 2002, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (Session 12) WHERE: Auditorium auditorium Portion of a theater or hall where an audience sits, as distinct from the stage. The auditorium originated in the theaters of ancient Greece, as a semicircular seating area cut into a hillside. A at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center is a collection of buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana. The lower end of building one is located 500 m (1640 feet) upriver from Canal Street on the banks of the Mississippi River. Named after former mayor of New Orleans Ernest N. , New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded during the 39th annual Design Automation Conference. About Antrim Design Systems Antrim Design Systems, Inc. provides the world's first comprehensive software solution for automating the front-end design of high performance analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits A mixed-signal integrated circuit combines analog circuits with digital signal processing (DSP) circuits on a single semiconductor die. An integrated circuit that includes both analog and digital circuitry (but no DSP), like a 555 timer, is generally not considered a mixed-signal . The company develops and markets design tools, libraries, and services that employ a highly efficient design methodology. Antrim's design tools also protect key circuit and fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. intellectual property, enabling distribution, transfer or sale to third parties. Visit Antrim at http://www.antrim.com Key Words: Analog, Mixed signal design, 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. , Integrated Circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. Note to Editors: Antrim is a registered trademark of Antrim Design Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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