ISQED 2001 Highlights the Growing Importance of Quality in IC Design and Manufacturing
Conference Promotes Closer Cooperation Between All Disciplines in Electronic Design
Business Editors/High Tech Writers
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001--The International Symposium
on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), a premier Design conference, reported
today that in only its second year of existence, participation grew significantly
and included attendees from over 200 organizations spanning 20 countries worldwide.
The audience, similar to last year's, came not only from the design community
but also included strong participation from EDA, semiconductor manufacturing,
and other industries, which highlights one of ISQED's missions -- to promote
communications between all disciplines involved with the electronic design.
"As ISQED enters its 3rd year of existence, I remain convinced that to
achieve total design quality, the design process and tools needs to be continuously
re-examined," said Ali Iranmanesh, the conference chairman, in his opening
remarks. "Time proven quality principles and measures should be applied
not only to the manufacturing process, but also to design tools, methodologies,
and infrastructure."
"Design quality has always been a major issue, and ISQED has done an excellent
job elevating its importance," said Hajime Sasaki, chairman of the board
of NEC (Nasdaq:NIPNY) and ISQED keynote speaker.
Joe Costello, chairman and CEO of think3, and former CEO of Cadence Design Systems
was another keynote speaker. "It's been a few years since I have been directly
involved with EDA, but ISQED seems to uniquely address all the critical issues
surrounding the design of System on chip (SoC), which is the fastest growing
design segment," said Costello.
Other keynote speakers included Edward Ross, President of TSMC USA (NYSE:TSM);
Aki Fujimura, COO and President of Simplex; Philippe Magarshack, Vice President
of Central R&D Group and Director of Design Automation, STMicroelectronics
(NYSE:STM), Raul Camposano, CTO and General Manager of Synopsys (Nasdaq:SNPS);
Vinod Agrawal, CEO of Logic Vision; and Wojciech P. Maly, Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
"We were extremely satisfied with the quality of the conference, and pleased
to be one of the sponsors of ISQED," said Chi-Foon Chan, President and
COO of Synopsys. "The quality of the people who attended makes this conference
a leading technical conference in the design community."
ISQED 2001 was sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committees
on TTTC, VLSI & Design Automation, and held in cooperation with the Fabless
Semiconductor Association and sigDA/ACM. Conference media and industry support
was provided by EE Times, ISD Magazine, Synopsys (Nasdaq:SNPS), Cadence Design
Systems (NYSE:CDN), Fujitsu Microelectronics, Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW),
Monterey Design, Numerical Technologies (Nasdaq:NMTC), UMC (NYSE:UMC), Artisan
Components (Nasdaq:ARTI), Nassda, PDF Solutions, Dolphin Technologies, and Tavanza,
all technology leaders in their respective fields.
About ISQED
The International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) is an electronic design and design automation conference focused on design quality. The conference provides a forum to present and exchange ideas and to promote the research, development, and application of design techniques & methods, design processes, EDA design tools, and design methodologies. The conference attendees are primarily designers of the VLSI Integrated Circuits & Systems (IP & SoC), and those involved in the Research, Development and Application of EDA/CAD Tools and Design flows, Process/Device Technologists, and Manufacturing Specialists. ISQED emphasizes a holistic approach toward design quality and intends to highlight and accelerate cooperation among the IC Design, EDA, and Process Technology communities. ISQED 2002 will be held on March 18-21, 2002. Calls for technical papers and other information is available from the conference web site at http://www.isqed.org. All other inquiries should be addressed to isqed@isqed.org.
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CONTACT: ISQED
Susan Salera, 408/799-4241
susan@isqed.org
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