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Moderator: Peggy Aycinena, EDA Confidential Abstract As the EDA industry matures, complete with high-profile consolidations and acquisitions, the eternal question remains – should EDA customer companies develop and support their own internal CAD tools, or should they rely on the EDA vendors for...

Alison Burdett, Toumaz Technology Abstract Medical devices need to achieve very high levels of reliability. Hardware redundancy and software self-test routines are typically employed to guarantee device operation, and extensive testing post-manufacture is needed. As a result, components designed for...

Claudio Contiero, STMicroelectronics Abstract Increasingly attention is paid to the “More-than-Moore” trend where the progresses on “digital” and real “analog world” interfacing do not depend merely on technology node evolution like in the digitally centric “Moore’s Law”. Mixed power technologies...

Piet Demeester, Ghent University Abstract Computers, televisions, internet, mobile phones and many more information and communication technologies (ICT) and devices have become an essential part of our lives. A major challenge for the coming decades is the operation of all this ICT equipment in a...

Gerhard Fettweis, Technical University of Dresden Abstract Chipset design for cellular communications has a long tradition of creating low-power system solutions for handsets. As the energy cost for running the infrastructure network is increasing dramatically, new total system solutions are...

Frank Schirrmeister, Group Director, Product Marketing System Development System and Software Realization Group, Cadence Kurzfassung Global trends in business, technology, and society are causing changes in the market opportunities and requirements for electronic products. For example, concern about...

Stephan Guttowski, Fraunhofer IZM Abstract: While system-on-chip (SoC) and PCB design teams are operating with highly developed EDA tools, there is a lack of automation tools for the design of heterogeneous systems. This is particularly true for the engineering of so called 2.5D SiP, which integrate...

Christoph Heer, Infineon Abstract: Continuous cost reduction is essential for successful semiconductor business. Technology scaling supports the reduction of variable product cost, but brings many new challenges with every technology node as chip designers are facing new failure types and even...

Volker Kiefer, Qimonda Abstract: Energy efficiency in electronic systems is a dominant topic in our industry. Among many other components, almost every electronic system contains memories and specifically DRAMs. Their energy consumption depends on the target application. The Si technology used to...

Brian Matas, IC Insights Abstract: Historically, the semiconductor market has been characterized by a pattern of cyclical peaks and valleys. Though the exact duration and magnitude of moving from one phase to the next has always been difficult to predict, there are some key elements such as...