edaForum06 program

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edaForum06 Program

1st day: Thursday, November 16, 2006
2nd day: Friday, November 17, 2006

First day:
8:30 am	Come Together
Company Presentations
10:00 am	Cadence Design Systems, Inc.	"Increasing the Productivity of AMS-Designs by Leveraging Constraint Driven Design"
10:35 am	Coffee Break
10:55 am	Synopsys Inc.	"Predictable Success: Today You Will Show Impossible the Door"
11:30 am	Magma Design Automation, Inc.	"True Design Automation - "Complete any Chip in 2 Days or less"
12:05 pm	Lunch
Welcome Address
1:15 pm	Wolfgang Rosenstiel	Chairman edacentrum
General Keynote
1:30 pm	Aldo Romano President & CEO STMicroelectronics	"The Innovation Process in the Semiconductor Industry: the Example of ST Microelectronics"
Technical Session I (parallel to Business Session I) "Nothing else Matters" Reliable Systems Don't Come for Free
2:40 pm	Keynote: Stefan Lottholz Bosch	"Automotive Electronics - High Performance Reliability at Attractive Price"
3:30 pm	Coffee Break
4:00 pm	Georg Georgakos Infineon	"VLSI Reliability Aspects from a Transistor’s Perspective"
4:35 pm	Michael Müller IBM	"RAS Design Overview of the “IBM System z”"
Business Session I (parallel to Technical Session I) "The Times They are a-Changin'" Chip Business is System Business
2:40 pm	Keynote: Christian Wolff Infineon	Replacing the "Field Trial"
3:30 pm	Coffee Break
4:00 pm	Joachim Kunkel Synopsys	"Where is the $1B ESL EDA Market Gone?"
4:35 pm	Gerd Teepe AMD	"The Ecosystem Decides - Customer Centric Innovation"
5:10 pm	Break
Panel Discussion: "What are the top EDA challenges in 2007?"
5:20 pm	Wolfgang Rosenstiel	Chairman edacentrum
6:20 pm	Break
Social Event
7:00 pm	Details	Aquarium Candle-light Dinner and a performance by Jaqueline Boulanger


Second Day:
Technical Session II (parallel to Business Session II) "The Show Must Go On" Exploring the New World - Technologies beyond CMOS
9:00 am	Keynote: Paolo Lugli Technical University of Munich	"Recent Advances in Nanoelectronics"
9:50 am	Johannes Windeln IBM	"Key Enabler for Future Technologies"
10:25 am	Coffee Break
10:55 am	Henning Riechert Qimonda	"Scaling CMOS down to the Nanometer Range"
11:30 am	Wolfgang Porod University of Notre Dame	"Circuit Architectures for Nanoscale Electronics"
Business Session II (parallel to Technical Session II) "With a Little Help from my Friends" Leadership Means Partnership
9:00 am	Keynote: Barry Dennington Philips	"The Partnership Network"
9:50 am	Thomas Harms Infineon	"Improving the Partnerships in the Design System Value Chain - an Infineon Perspective"
10:25 am	Coffee Break
10:55 am	Wayne Howell IBM	"The Cell Processor: Partnership for Success"
11:30 am	Sean Redmond Cadence	"EDA Leadership - A Journey through the Electronic Design Chain"
Friday Keynote
12:10 pm	Moshe Gavrielov, Executive Vice President and General Manager Verification Division Cadence	"System Verification: THE Enterprise Level Development Problem"
Closing Words
1:10 pm	Erich Barke	Vice Chairman edacentrum
1:15 pm	Lunch
Trips and Tours
2:30 pm	Details	Exhibition "The Story of Berlin" (2:30 pm - 5:30 pm) Visit of the Reichstag building (3:00 pm - 7:00 pm)