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5th International
System-on-Chip (SoC)
Conference, Exhibit &
Workshops
November 7 & 8, 2007
Radisson Hotel Newport Beach, Southern California
The Most Informative, Targeted, and Affordably
Priced
SoC, ASIC, ASSP, FPGA, and Foundry Technology Conference &
Exhibit Event of the Year!
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Program Summary
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SoC Conference Day 1 |
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 |
8:00 am - 6:00 pm |
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SoC Conference Day 2 |
Thursday, November 8, 2007 |
8:00 am - 6:00 pm |
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SoC Table-Top Exhibit |
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 |
4:30 pm - 8:30 pm |
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SoC Workshops |
Check the Individual
Workshop Schedules |
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Conference Program Agenda* |
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Day One
Wednesday
November 7
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Session |
Company
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University |
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7:00 am
6:00 pm |
Registration
Open All Day |
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8:00 - 08:15 |
Welcome,
Opening Remarks, and Conference Updates. Farhad Mafie, President and CEO.
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Savant |
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8:15 12:00 |
Semiconductor Technology & Trends:
New Design
Approaches for Complex SoCs
Track
Chairman: Dr. Goran Matijasevic is Director of Research Development at The
Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine |
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8:15 8:45 |
Semiconductor
SoC, ASIC, FPGA Market update. Jordan Selburn, Silicon Analyst |
iSuppli |
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8:45 9:15 |
SoC for
Mobile WiMAX, Ray Abrishami, Senior Director of Wireless Business Group. |
Fujitsu |
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9:15 9:45 |
Power,
Performance, and Programmability Requirements for Wireless Application SoCs,
Dr. Hooman T. Parizi Principal IC Design Scientist. |
Broadcom |
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9:45 - 10:00 |
Morning Break
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10:00 10:30
Keynote |
Keynote:
Dr. Marco Racanelli, Vice President of Technology & Engineering.
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Jazz
Semiconductor |
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10:30 11:00 |
Power 6 South
Bridge, Al Yanes, Distinguished Engineer, Systems and Technology Group. |
IBM |
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11:00 11:30 |
Specialized
Foundries Bring Distinct Business and Technical Advantages to Chip
Companies, Rafi Nave, CTO. |
Tower
Semiconductor |
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11:30 12:00 |
Embedded
Memory Using Spin-Transfer Torque RAM (STT-RAM), Farhad Tabrizi, Chief
Executive Officer and President |
Grandis |
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12:00 pm -
1:00 pm |
Lunch
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1:00 1:30
Keynote |
Keynote:
Title: Moores Law and Tera-scale computing: Future SoC
Trends for Complex Designs, Dr. Jeff Parkhurst, Academic Research Programs
Manager in the Design Sciences Area. |
Intel |
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1:30 3:00 |
Multicore,
CPUs, DSPs & NoCs for Complex SoCs
Track
Chairman: Farhad Mafie, Savant Company Inc. |
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1:30 2:00 |
Component-Level Multimedia Function Blocks for Mobile SoC Designs, Steve
Leibson, Technology Evangelist. |
Tensilica |
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2:00 2:30 |
Design, Test,
and Analysis Challenges for Multi-Voltage Embedded Processors, Dr. Robert
C. Aitken, Fellow, R&D. |
ARM |
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2:30 3:00 |
Considerations in Selecting
Multicore and Multi-threaded Implementations.
Kevin D.
Kissell, Principal Architect. |
MIPS
Technologies |
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3:00 3:15 |
Afternoon
Break |
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3:15 3:45 |
Scalable
Video Platform Enabling HD Video Communication, Dr. Thanh Tran, Senior
Member Technical Staff. |
Texas
Instruments |
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3:45 4:15 |
The Next
Generation On Chip Communication Architecture for Consumer Applications,
Antonio-Marcello Coppola, Head of the Grenoble Research Laboratory. |
ST
Microelectronics |
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4:15 4:45 |
Nano-scale
SoCs for Connected Consumer Application, Selliah
Rathnam, Fellow at NXP Semiconductors. |
NXP
Semiconductors |
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4:45 pm
5:15 pm |
Peak Power
Aware Network-on-Chip (NoC) Design, Praveen Bhojwani, PhD Candidate of
Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. |
Texas A&M
University |
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5:15 - 6:15
Panel |
Panel:
Emerging
Trends for Complex SoCs: From Advanced Multicore/CPUs/DSPs To Innovative
Embedded Memories
Moderator:
Maury Wright, Editorial Director, EDN Worldwide
Panelists:
1:
Dr. Cyrus Afghahi, CEO, Novelics.
2: Mike Uhler, Chief Technology
Officer, MIPS Technologies.
3: Jonah Alben, Vice President of
GPU Engineering, NVIDIA.
4: Jeff Bier, Co-Founder and
President, Berkeley Design Technology.
5: Grant Martin, Chief Scientist,
Tensilica.
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EDN
Novelics
MIPS
NVIDIA
BDTI
Tensilica
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4:30 pm -
8:30 pm
Exhibit |
Conference Exhibit & Reception Open
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Day Two
Thursday
November 8
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Session |
Company
or
University |
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7:00 am
6:00 pm |
Registration
Open All Day |
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8:00 - 8:15 |
Welcome,
Opening Remarks, and Conference Updates. Farhad Mafie, President and CEO.
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Savant |
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8:15 12:00 |
Memory
sub-system Issues, Advances & Trends for
Complex
SoC Designs
Track
Chairman:
Dr.
Nader Bagherzadeh,
University of
California, Irvine. |
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8:15 8:45 |
Achieving
Optimal Yield in SoC Designs, Luigi Ternullo, Product Marketing Manager,
STAR Memory System. |
Virage Logic |
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8:45 9:15 |
Jim Cooke,
Application Engineering Director. |
Micron |
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9:15 9:45 |
Managing
Complexity in a PHY Verification Flow, Dr. Tom Sheffler, Senior Principal
Engineer. |
Rambus |
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9:45 10:00 |
Morning Break
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10:00 10:30
Keynote |
Keynote:
Dr. Ahmad Bahai, National Fellow and Chief Technology
Officer, NS Labs. Adjunct Professor, Stanford University, UC Berkeley. |
National Semiconductor |
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10:30 11:00 |
Memory for
the New Millennium keeping Moores Law Alive, Jeff Mitchell, Director of
Technical Marketing. |
Innovative Silicon |
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11:00 11:30 |
Embedded
Non-Volatile Memory (NVM), Craig Rawlings, Marketing Director
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Kilopass Technology |
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11:30 12:00 |
Innovative
Embedded Memories, Dr. Gil Winograd, Chief Operating Offices & Co-Founder.
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Novelics |
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12:00 1:00 |
Lunch
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1:00 2:00
Panel |
Panel:
Emerging
Wireless Chips: The Development & Integration Challenges
Moderator:
Glen Gibbons, Inside GNSS, Editor and Managing Partner
Panelists
1:
Bruce Peetz, Vice President of Advanced Technologies, Trimble.
2:
Charles Abraham, Director of Engineering for the GPS
Business Unit of Broadcom, Corporation.
3:
Sanjai Kohli, Chief Technical Officer,
SiRF
Technology.
4:
Dr.
Cormac Conroy, VP Engineering,
Qualcomm
5:
Clint Powell, Chief Architect and Global Platform Systems and Architecture
Manager, WCO, Freescale.
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Inside GNSS
Trimble
Broadcom
SiRF
Technology
Qualcomm
Freescale |
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2:00 2:30
Keynote |
Keynote:
"From Wall Street to Silicon Valley: Using the
Mathematics of Money and Risk for Fast Statistical IC Design." Dr. Rob Rutenbar, Professor of Electrical & Computer
Engineering, Director of the National FCRP Focus Center for Circuit & System
Solutions. |
Carnegie Mellon University |
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Innovative Tools & Solutions: For Complex SoC Designs
Track
Chairman: Dr. Jim Lipman, Vice President, Cain Communications |
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2:30 3:00 |
Embedding
Multi-Gb/s Serial Interconnects Into 65nm and 45nm SoCs, Navraj Nandra,
Director of Product Marketing for the Mixed-Signal Products. |
Synopsys |
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3:00 3:30 |
Economic
Impact of Low-Power Design, Steve Carlson, Vice President Technology.
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Cadence Design Systems |
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3:30 3:45 |
Afternoon
Break |
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3:45 4:15 |
Design
Flow integration with IP-XACT, Bill Chown, Product Group Director for the
System-Level Engineering Division at Mentor Graphics, Representing The
SPIRIT Consortium. |
The SPIRIT Consortium
(Mentor Graphics) |
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4:15
4:45 |
Portable
Product Design with Cortex-M1 in Low-power FPGAs. Mike Thompson, Senior
Engineering Manager, Actel Corporation. |
Actel |
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4:45
5:45
Panel |
Panel:
Structured ASICs: Dead or Alive
Moderator:
Steve Leibson, EDN Contributing Editor.
Panelists:
1:
Soheila Lighvani, Director, Design Engineering, Western Area Design Center,
Toshiba America Electronic Components.
2:
Jasbinder Bhoot, Senior Director, Marketing, eASIC Corporation.
3: Sunil Baliga, VP & GM, Custom Silicon Business, InSilica.
4: Paul Hollingworth, Senior Director of the HardCopy Product Group,
Altera.
5: Phillip LoPresti, CEO & President, Kenet Inc.
6: Chris Moezzi, Vice President of Business Development, Faraday
Technology.
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EDN
Toshiba
eASIC
InSilica
Altera
Kenet
Faraday |
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5:45 6:00 |
5th
International SoC Conference Closing Remarks. Farhad Mafie, President & CEO.
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Savant |
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* Program is subject to change.
Savant Company Inc. reserves the right to revise or modify the above program at
its sole discretion.
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