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SNUG India 2007
Trip Report
| SNUG India 2007 was held at the Leela Palace, Bangalore on May 24-25, attracting 1,581 attendees to the event. This EDA mega-event was kicked off by Deirdre Hanford, senior VP Global Technical Services, who addressed about 1,200 design engineers with a talk on “Productivity and Value Creation,” highlighting the tremendous advances made by Synopsys-enabled users. |

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Behrooz Abdi, senior VP and GM of Qualcomm, delivered a keynote on the role of “Semiconductor Industry on the Evolution of Wireless” and led the audience through a short history and future trends of the wireless industry, focusing on 3G and growth drivers like the convergence of multimedia and mobility. |

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Anil Gupta, managing director of ARM India Operations, delivered the partner keynote on “The Future ARM Powered Digital World.” He spoke of ARM's leadership in the applications processor, real-time embedded and microcontroller markets. |
This year's technical program saw 33 high-caliber user papers presented across three tracks: Physical Design & Sign-off, Synthesis & Test and Verification & Analog Mixed Signal. The papers were drawn from about 95 contributions, by about 130 authors from more than 30 design and services companies
A panel discussion on low-power applications and 16 tutorials on synthesis, physical design, test, static timing analysis, spice simulation, verification methodology and IP use saw enthusiastic participation from the listeners in extended Q&A sessions.
Judges for user papers, drawn from across 12 design and service companies, picked the best user papers from Open Silicon, Transwitch, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.
Congratulations to our winners!: |
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Challenges in Crosstalk-aware Timing Analysis for a High Performance Multi-core VoIP SoC
Presented by Texas Instruments |
Dynamic Shift Frequency Scaling Of ATPG Patterns
Presented by Open-Silicon |

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Usage of VMM to Address Gigabit Switch Verification Challenges
Presented by Transwitch |
Complex Signal Integrity Simulations for GPIOs using HSIM Hierarchical Flow
Presented by Qualcomm |
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