DesignCon 2009 Exhibition to Showcase Industry Leaders' Insight and Inventive Electronic Design Solutions for New Year.

The exhibit floor at DesignCon 2009 will feature live demonstrations of the newest products and services from the industry's "brightest minds" this February 3-5 at the Santa Clara Convention Center

CHICAGO -- The International Engineering Consortium's (IEC) DesignCon 2009 exhibition will display state of the art design techniques, tools, and products from over 125 top vendors and leaders in the semiconductor and electronic design communities. Additionally, the TecPreview Theater on the exhibit floor will host detailed presentations and hands-on demonstrations open to all attendees.

"The learning and networking opportunities at DesignCon are illustrative of the continued value the event brings to design engineers," stated IEC President John Janowiak. "We are extremely thankful to all our exhibitors, sponsors, and speakers, and look forward to the entire electronic design value chain being represented on this year's exhibition floor."

Exhibitors at DesignCon will help attendees explore the latest developments in IC design tools, interconnect technologies and components, PCB design tools and technologies, semiconductor components and ICs, test and measurement equipment, and more.

The top three finalist submissions of the first-ever Chiphead Video Contest will be shown in the TecPreview Theater where attendees can vote for the grand prize winner, announced live Wednesday, February 4 at 6pm. The DesignTOUR offers attendees the opportunity to win one of several prizes sponsored by a select group of DesignCon exhibitors by visiting participating exhibitor booths during exhibit floor hours.

Major corporate sponsors of the event include Agilent Technologies, Denali, Rambus, LeCroy, Tektronix, Mentor Graphics, BERTScope, and ChipEstimate.com.

The IEC grants access to the exhibition, as well as all keynotes, technical panels, the DesignVision Awards, Technology Theater presentations, and networking receptions as part of its Exhibits PLUS package available at www.designcon.com/2009/register.

All accredited members of the media are entitled to full and complimentary access to the entire four-day event by registering at http://www.designcon.com/2009/press/press_reg.asp.

Visit www.designcon.com/2009/ for full information or contact Katie Post at [e-mail] or [phone].