The Fourteenth Annual SNUG Europe welcomed over 330 users to its annual conference held on May 3-4, 2005, at the Kempinski Hotel in Munich, Germany. Attendees representing over 80 companies and 20 countries throughout Europe and Northern Africa, viewed two full days of technical sessions.

This year, SNUG Europe had a record-breaking 50 user presentations presented during the conference. In addition, another six user papers were introduced at SNUG and published in the conference proceedings. Other technical highlights included a keynote speech delivered by Aart, ten Synopsys tutorials, three R&D Panels and the Author’s Poster Session.

In addition to a solid technical program, attendees were invited to relax and unwind during the cocktail reception held on May 3. Set under the hotel's spectacular glass atrium and accompanied by a jazz trio, attendees enjoyed good food, drinks and conversation, while mingling with fellow users and Synopsys technical representatives. During the cocktail party, attendees were also able to visit the tables of two of Synopsys' valued partners, ARM and UMC.

At the conclusion of SNUG Europe, the award presentations recognized excellent user papers as determined by attendees and the SNUG Europe Technical Committee. The SNUG Europe 2005 "Technical Committee" and "Best Paper" awards went to:

Technical Committee Award
"Reusable Timing Constraints for Efficient SoC STA Environment Integration"
By Mario Vergara-Escobar, Ericsson Mobile Platforms

1st Place Best Paper
"Static and Dynamic Supply Net Integrity Analysis at Infineon Memory Products" Presented by Joerg Schweden, Infineon Technologies AG

2nd Place Best Paper
"Behavioural Modeling and Simulation of a Switched-Current Phase Locked Loop"
Presented by Peter Wilson, University of Southampton; Co-author: Reuben Wilcock, University of Southampton

3rd Place Best Paper
"Fill Handling During Gate Level Extraction using Star-RCXT for 130 and 90nm Technologies"
Presented by Patrick Wernicke, Infineon Technologies AG

In addition, a new award was presented. The Best First-Time SNUG PresenterAward went to Hendrik Seidel of TU-Dresden for his presentation "Development and Implementation of a 3.6 GFLOP/s SIMD-DSP using the Synopsys Toolchain".

SNUG is an open forum that provides Synopsys users the opportunity to exchange ideas, discuss problems and explore solutions. It also gives users a chance to meet with Synopsys executives, developers and application engineers. The program is highly technical and developed by users with an emphasis on customer issues.

Thank you to all SNUG authors, technical committee members and attendees for making SNUG Europe 2005 a valuable and successful users conference!

View all SNUG Europe 2005 proceedings in the SNUG Papers Library.