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Industry News - EDA Forum 2003
FirstEDA announces a dedicated UK-based EDA Forum to be held on 11 June at Heathrow, London
- Heathrow, 11 June
- Free to attend - a dedicated UK-based one-day EDA event
- Promotes proven EDA methodologies
- Technical presentations focussing on proven EDA methodologies
- Panel session
- Exhibition of latest tool and technology offerings
Banbury, UK - 13 May 2003 - FirstEDA, specialists in the distribution and support of leading-edge EDA tools, has announced a free to attend, post-DAC technical forum - to be held on Wednesday 11 June at the Holiday Inn, Heathrow, London.
EDA Forum 2003 is targeted at ASIC, SoC and systems engineers and is to focus on proven EDA methodologies. Up to seven technical presentations are to be given, followed by an independently chaired panel session. To register for the EDA Forum: visit www.edaforum.org; email register@edaforum.org; or contact the forum organisers on 01295 201250.
Julian Lonsdale, founder of FirstEDA and organiser of the forum, comments: "EDA Forum 2003 is all about discussing today's challenges and proven solutions, and the presentations given on the day will be rich with advice and contain as many real-life examples as possible."
Topics to be addressed (and the companies presenting them) at the EDA Forum one-day event include: Embracing a system level language (Summit Design); Pre-RTL architectural exploration (Icinergy); RTL design and the charting of downstream constraints (Atrenta); Assertion-based verification (Aldec); Equivalence checking (Prover Technology); and Platform-based concurrent engineering (ProDesign).
Lonsdale continues: "DAC, in the US, is the premier EDA event and it never fails to give the industry its annual boost. However, not everyone can get out to the US this year and those companies that are sending designers are sending fewer than before - restricting the amount of information they [as a company] can collect."
The EDA Forum technical presentations will be given in approximate design flow order, and will be reproduced (with speaker notes) as handouts on the day.
Lonsdale adds: "ASIC, PLD and system design are currently alive and well in the UK but will suffer in the long term if we do not start boosting the industry in the same way that DAC does."
The companies giving presentations at the forum will also be exhibiting their latest tools and solutions: giving attendees the ideal opportunity to meet the presenters for one-to-one discussions.
Lonsdale concludes: "This EDA Forum, hopefully the first of many, is to have broad approach, as we're trying to promote as many discussions as possible between the various engineering disciplines using, and dependent on, EDA tools and methodologies. This forum is for ASIC and SoC designers. It is for those using reconfigurable logic. It is for those developing a system on a platform. It is for hardware, software and firmware engineers. It is in fact for anyone using design automation to get a product designed and developed who wish to hear about proven methodologies and techniques in order to reduce risk."
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FirstEDA specialise in the distribution and support of leading-edge EDA solutions for designers involved in the specification, implementation and verification of custom silicon devices.
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