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Call For Sponsors, Speakers & Exhibitors

For Speaking opportunities, conference sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities (tabletop exhibits), please contact:

SoC@savantcompany.com    or    (949) 851-1714

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The Savant SoC Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Presenters for The 4th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference in Southern California.

Track & Session presenters, Keynote Speakers, and Panel Members who can contribute their professional expertise have a wonderful opportunity to share their innovative SoC technology or their products at this event with a very focused and targeted audience.

Presenters and Keynote Speakers will be considered for leading-edge topics such as:

• CMOS, Scaling, and the Future

• Interconnect-Centric SoC Design

• Network-on-Chip (NoC)  

• Imaging System- on-Chip (I-SoC) -- CMOS Image Sensors & Image Processing

• Video Compression IPs for H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, Wavelets, JPEG2000

• Video-related IPs such as DVB-H, DMB, ISDB-T, DVB-T, HDTV, etc.

• Wireless IPs for GPRS, HSPDA, 3.5G, 4G,  802.11n,  802.15.3a (UWB),  802.16 (WiMax), SDR (Software Defined Radio), etc.

• ASIC/SoC/Foundry for 65nm and Sub-65nm

• SoC Design Challenges

• Is Structured ASIC Dead?

• FPGA Technology Beyond 90nm

• High-speed IOs (SerDes, etc.) Design Challenges

• 1394, USB, and other high-speed IO IPs

• Modeling Techniques for SoC/ASIC Designs  

• Configurable CPUs and DSPs for SoC Platform Design

• SIP vs. SoC vs. 3D Packaging

• SoC Design Using Programmable ICs & Structured ASICs

• System-on-Chip Platform Design

• Distributed processing on One Die

• EDA Tools for 45nm and Post-45nm

• Memory Subsystem Design

• Memory on-chip vs. off-chip

• New Memory Technologies

• New Ideas in Placement and Floorplanning

• New Opportunities in High-level Synthesis

• ASIC/SoC Design Methodologies

• IP Design, Modeling, and Reuse

• SoC Testing and Verification

• ... and other topics

Panel Moderators and Panel Members will be considered for topics such as:

• Configurable CPUs and DSPs for SoC Platform Design

• IP Design, Modeling, and Reuse

• EDA Tools for 45nm and Post-45nm

• FPGA vs. ASIC vs. SoC

• Memory Subsystems for Complex SoCs

• Innovative Approaches for Low Power Designs

• SoC Testing and Verification

The deadline for proposals/abstracts has been extended to Monday, May 15, 2006.

(Please be sure to include a short bio and your photo with your proposal.)

To take advantage of this opportunity, please contact the Savant SoC Marketing Team at soc@savantcompany.com before Monday, May 15, 2006. Announcements to the public and general conference registration will begin June 2006.

We look forward to talking with you and answering any questions.  Please share this information with your colleagues!

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Presentations at Savant International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conferences are in the form of 30-minute PowerPoint presentation/talks.  Presentation slides will be published in the System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference Proceedings.  Participants are not required to submit written papers, but a select group will be invited to submit a paper for inclusion in a special Savant SoC Report.

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Attendee demographics for past SoC Conferences (based on job responsibilities):

• 74% Design Engineers and Engineering Management

• 11% Technical Marketing, Sales, or Business Development Management

• 8% University Engineering Professors and Engineering Students

• 4% Strategic Planning, Media, Analysts

• 3% Other

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Conference Agenda Available June 2006

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