IEC President John Janowiak celebrated the success of the show, “We are very pleased that many of our constituents commended the success of DesignCon 2007. It was well attended and the conference continues to be extremely popular as can be measured by the commitment and attendance year after year of the industry's leading professionals and companies.”
Discussing silicon intellectual property, the future of engineering education, model-based DFM, emerging challenges, 65-nm technology, triple-play, globalization, the DesignVision Awards and more, the IEC drew more than 5,000 people to register for its DesignCon 2007, which housed more than 300 industry experts who spoke in more than 100 educational tutorials, plenary panels and paper presentations.
Industry leaders shared their knowledge and experience in keynote addresses and various panels and presented their award-winning papers in comprehensive seminars. Keynoters Steve Polzin (AMD), Willem Roelandts (Xilinx) and Leah Jamieson (Purdue University and IEEE) joined other key industry players such as Brendan Farley (Silicon and Software Systems), Kathy Werner (Freescale Semiconductor), Steve Carlson (Cadence), Kazu Yamada (NEC Electronics America), Michael Keating (Synopsys) and Jim Hogan (Vista Ventures).
In addition, a record-breaking number of 130 DesignCon vendors and associations exhibited. The exhibition featured product announcements, Hot Technologies and pavilions that focused on PCB technology, design verification, and semiconductor and IP technology.
The DesignVision Awards also took place at DesignCon last week recognizing technologies, tools, and products judged to be the most beneficial to the electronic design industry. Winning companies included Cadence Design Systems, OneSpin Solutions, Denali Software, PCB Libraries, National Semiconductor, Stratosphere Solutions, Altium Limited, Xilinx, Synplicity, Inc., Chip Estimate, Agilent Technologies, LeCroy and Tektronix, Inc.
Other event highlights include the 2006 DesignCon Paper Award winners, the Business Forum, TecPreviews and co-located events such as the Ethernet Alliance Open Meeting and the IBIS Summit.
Visit www.designcon.com/2007/ or contact Lisa Ann Reyes at +1-312-559-3325 or lreyes@iec.org.
