Si2 Announces the Eighth OpenAccess+ Conference with Speakers and Demonstrations from Leading Semiconductor and EDA Companies.

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) today announced that its eighth OpenAccess+ Conference will be held on April 11, 2006, at the SUN Microsystems Conference Center in Santa Clara, California.

The Conference will feature speakers and demonstrations from several of the industry's leading semiconductor and electronic-design automation (EDA) companies, including AMD, AMI Semiconductor, Aprio Technologies, Cadence Design Systems, Cadence Berkeley Labs, CiraNova, IBM, Intel, LSI Logic, Magma Design Automation, Micron Technology, National Semiconductor, Philips Semiconductor, Ponte Solutions, Renesas Technology, Sagantec, Silicon Navigator, Sun Microsystems, and Virage Logic.

The feature keynote speaker is Rajeev Madhavan, CEO of Magma Design Automation, providing his thoughts on "When to Innovate, When to Collaborate." Madhavan notes that: "To enable designers to address the increasing costs and complexity of ICs targeted to 65-nm and finer process geometries, the EDA industry is going to have to deliver true automation. But no company can provide every tool a designer will need. Smart executives know how and when to focus their company's energies on the projects that will bring the most return and growth, and more importantly, enable their customers' success. This is why Magma has been working with Si2's OpenAccess to ensure interoperability with key partners."

The "+" in the conference title indicates the expanded scope of the conference and the presentations -- the strong lineup of speakers and panelists will explore not only where the OpenAccess Standard is heading, but also how it relates to other important industry initiatives at Si2 in library modeling and design for manufacturability. Conference presenters will demonstrate the progress in adoption that OpenAccess has achieved to-date, both among EDA companies and end-users, and the promise it holds for the future, as well as the synergy that exists, by intent, between OpenAccess and both design for manufacturability (DFM) and library modeling.

Finally, there will be a number of companies who will be providing real-life evidence of the value of OpenAccess through demonstrations of their tools on the OpenAccess reference implementation.

For more information, the full agenda, and to register for the conference, visit http://www.si2.org/?page=668

About the OpenAccess Standard and Si2

The OpenAccess Coalition is a community-driven initiative formed to enable the creation of tightly integrated flows involving best-in-class commercial and proprietary tools and intellectual property (IP), necessary to support design of today's complex chips. This is done through an open-standard data-access interface (API) and reference database implementation supporting that API. Leading electronics companies with significant investment in CAD tools and infrastructure, as well as many commercial electronic-design automation (EDA) tool providers, have embraced the OpenAccess initiative as a means to support rapid product development. The OpenAccess Coalition operates under the governance and bylaws of Si2.

Si2 is an organization of industry-leading semiconductor, systems, EDA and manufacturing companies focused on improving the way integrated circuits are designed and manufactured in order to speed time-to-market, reduce costs, and meet the challenges of sub-micron design. Si2 is uniquely positioned to enable collaboration through a strong implementation focus driven by its member companies. Si2 focuses on developing practical technology solutions to industry challenges. Si2 represents over 95 companies involved in all parts of the silicon supply chain throughout the world. For more information about OpenAccess and Si2, visit www.si2.org.