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ISQED
2001 HIGHLIGHTS GROWING IMPORTANCE OF QUALITY IN
DESIGN
AND MANUFACTURING
Conference
Promotes Close Cooperation Between All Disciplines in Electronic Design
San
Jose, Calif. -- April 19, 2001 – International Symposium on Quality Electronic
Design (ISQED), a premier Design conference, reported
today that in its only second year of existence, participation in the conference
grew significantly and included attendance from over 200 organizations spanning
20 countries worldwide.
The audience, similar to last year, came from not only the design
community but also included strong participation from EDA, semiconductor
manufacturing, and other industries, which highlights one of ISQED missions –
to promote the communication 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 critically
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 concern, 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
are extremely satisfied with the quality of ISQED and pleased to be one of the
sponsors for ISQED”, said Chi-Foon Chan, President and COO of Synopsys. “The
quality of the people who attended makes this conference a leading technical
conferences 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 Fables Semiconductor
Association and sigDA/ACM. The 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 perspective 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. Call for paper 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.
