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TUESDAY, June 14, 2005, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Room: 207D
TOPIC AREA:  BUSINESS

   SESSION 100
  Choosing Flows and Methodologies for SoC Design
  Chair: Dennis C. Wassung, Jr. - Adams Harkness, Inc., Boston, MA
  Organizers: Yervant Zorian, Virage Logic

  Moving to new semiconductor technology nodes can dramatically impact the business performance of the SoC company, and its age-old design and manufacturing flows and methodologies. It can also significantly affect its choices of suppliers. This session will provide an overview of changing needs and corresponding management decision criteria to make the right choices from a pool of alternate options.

    100.1   EDA Flows: Best-of-Breed or Single-Vendor Solution?
  Speaker(s): Magdy Abadir - Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX
    100.2The Criteria to Select: ASIC vs. Foundry Model
  Speaker(s): Jeffery Kohlman - Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Rolling Meadows, IL
    100.3How to Choose from All the Process Nodes, IP Cores, and Other SoC Suppliers
  Speaker(s): Norbert Diesing - PMC-Sierra, Inc, Burnaby, BC
    100.4Soft Errors: Do You Need to Worry, and When? Which Applications are Affected?
  Speaker(s): Kee Sup Kim - Intel Corp., Sacramento, CA