Si2 Announces the Seventh OpenAccess Conference with Speakers and Demonstrations from Leading Semiconductor and EDA Companies.AUSTIN, Texas -- The Silicon Integration Initiative “Si2” redirects here. For other uses, see Si2 (disambiguation). Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) is a non-profit consortium of industry-leading semiconductor, systems, EDA, and manufacturing companies, focused on improving the way integrated circuits are (Si2) today announced that its seventh OpenAccess Conference will be held on November 10 2005, at SEMI headquarters in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . The Conference will feature speakers and demonstrations from several of the industry's leading semiconductor and 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. ) companies, including AMI Semiconductor AMI Semiconductor is a company engaged the design and manufacture of customer specific integrated circuit solutions, including solutions for the automotive, medical and industrial markets. Among its products are products that integrate processing of analog and digital signals. , Applied Materials Applied Materials, Inc. NASDAQ: AMAT (HKSE: 4336 ) is the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panel solar displays, solar , Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , Cadence Berkeley Labs, CiraNova, Gradient, 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) , LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic, Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. , National Semiconductor, Philips Semiconductor, Silicon Navigator, NC State University, and UC Berkeley. The featured keynote speaker is Chekib Akrout, vice president of Design Systems, responsible for Design Flows and Methodologies, Differentiating Tool Development, Libraries, Memories/IP, and IT Services at Freescale Semiconductor, who will be addressing the business implications of OpenAccess. The 7th OpenAccess Conference will provide the latest information on this open platform for creating interoperable EDA tools and flows. The OpenAccess API continues to grow in prominence and adoption in the EDA industry and among end-users, Synopsys being the most prominent among the recent adopters. Updates and enhancements to the platform, defined by the OpenAccess Change Team and developed by Cadence, have continued to be delivered at their scheduled quarterly pace through Si2's web portal. As will be evident from the program and the presenters, there will be new faces on the podium who will present on their engagement with OpenAccess. There will be presentations on new approaches and new avenues of OpenAccess deployment. There will be ample opportunities through the panels, Q&A's and break periods to engage with the presenters and other attendees so that all can gain in knowledge and know-how on ways to enhance their adoption. Some of the papers will show how the work being done within the OpenAccess Coalition creates synergy with the other coalitions within Si2. 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=583 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 The rules and regulations enacted by an association or a corporation to provide a framework for its operation and management. Bylaws may specify the qualifications, rights, and liabilities of membership, and the powers, duties, and grounds for the dissolution of an 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 85 companies involved in all parts of the silicon supply chain throughout the world. For more information about OpenAccess and Si2, visit www.si2.org. |
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