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Richard A. Newton, Dean of the College of EngineeringUniversity of California, Berkeley Abstract In the mid-1980’s, the design technology industry made its last major advance in design productivity with the introduction of a logic-synthesis-based design methodology and associated verification...

Rob Rutenbar, Stephen Jatras Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Abstract Most modern System-on-Chip (SoC) designs will soon be mixed-signal designs. This should come as no surprise: a few million gates worth of fast digital computation on a chip is much more...

Alexander A. Silbey, Director of Professional Services Numetrics Management Systems, Inc. Abstract The management of IC design projects is in disarray. IC design teams consistently underestimate design complexity with respect their productivity. The result: 85 percent of projects miss schedules by 6...

Peter van Staa, Director Design of Integrated Circuits Robert Bosch GmbH Abstract Full custom ASIC-design is very specific and individual, like a painting of an artist. But each artist uses his own art-methodology, and successfull artists have reached a high output/effort ratio. Like an ASIC...

Sang Wang, CEO & Chairman Nassda Corporation Abstract Investment cost in nanometer IC projects continues to increase at a rapid pace. But more importantly, investment increase will arrive from longer than expected project cycle, design rework to correct silicon problems and to improve yields and...

Jaswinder Ahuja, Corporate Vice President and Managing Director Cadence India Abstract Globalization is the process of connecting the world’s people with respect to cultural, economical, political, theological and environmental aspects of their lives and creates a web of financial, social...

Brian Bailey, Chief Technologist Mentor Graphics Corporation Abstract Listening to some industry experts, the bar for formal verification has been raised to the point where success is measured by the time that it takes for formal methods to replace the more traditional simulation based verification...

Martin Botteck, Research Manager Validation and Testing Technologies Nokia GmbH Abstract Sourcing departments often are confronted with the task to make rather complex components available within the product design process. Bluetooth baseband components are an interesting example of such a component...

Ronald Collett,President and CEO, of Numetrics Management Systems, Inc. Abstract Each year semiconductor and electronics companies collectively spend billions of dollars on chip development projects that end up getting cancelled. For the most part, the R&D is wasted, because only a fraction of the...

Tom DeMarco, Principal Atlantic Systems Guild Inc. Abstract Project work is a risky business. Avoiding risk is a no-win proposition because risk is usually an indicator of value; when there is no risk there is no value. We need to learn to run toward risk, not run away from it. (If a project has no...