The wireless market is red-hot! And the DAC 2008 theme is wireless to focus on wireless system design challenges.
The semiconductor industry has shown an excellent five-year compound annual growth rate of 12%. But what stands out more is the 22% growth rate demonstrated by the cellular phone semiconductor market over the past five years. For the first time ever, over one billion cellular phone handsets were shipped in 2007 reaching an active base of more than 3 billion handsets. In total, 16% of all semiconductor demand is for ICs destined for cellular handsets.
While this is impressive, wireless technology has only just scratched the surface of a connected world of consumer devices. When it comes to other popular consumer devices like PDAs, PCs, digital cameras, media players, handset video games, Internet access devices and the like, wireless features are quickly being added to them.
In a world of everything being connected wirelessly, wireless systems are driving semiconductor technology advances and design automation solutions from high-level system design that includes hardware/software tradeoffs to detailed physical implementation and verification for device fabrication.
It is no wonder that DAC 2008 theme is wireless. DAC invites you to submit papers, panel proposals, tutorial ideas and workshops related to wireless design challenges.
The semiconductor industry has shown an excellent five-year compound annual growth rate of 12%. But what stands out more is the 22% growth rate demonstrated by the cellular phone semiconductor market over the past five years. For the first time ever, over one billion cellular phone handsets were shipped in 2007 reaching an active base of more than 3 billion handsets. In total, 16% of all semiconductor demand is for ICs destined for cellular handsets.
While this is impressive, wireless technology has only just scratched the surface of a connected world of consumer devices. When it comes to other popular consumer devices like PDAs, PCs, digital cameras, media players, handset video games, Internet access devices and the like, wireless features are quickly being added to them.
In a world of everything being connected wirelessly, wireless systems are driving semiconductor technology advances and design automation solutions from high-level system design that includes hardware/software tradeoffs to detailed physical implementation and verification for device fabrication.
It is no wonder that DAC 2008 theme is wireless. DAC invites you to submit papers, panel proposals, tutorial ideas and workshops related to wireless design challenges.