Over 400 Synopsys users, from as far away as Norway, Germany and Italy, attended the eighth annual users' group in the East, making this SNUG Boston the highest attended ever. Over the course of two days, 30 user presentations, 22 Synopsys tutorials and four panels were delivered to standing-room only sessions.
SNUG Technical Chair, Erich Whitney of Mercury Computer Systems, kicked-off SNUG Boston 2006 by welcoming everyone and introducing Synopsys CEO and Chairman of the Board, Aart de Geus. Aart's keynote, entitled "Predictable Success—a Techonomic Perspective", emphasized the continuing push to migrate designs into ever smaller process geometries. He also included an update on Synopsys’ complete solutions, including a live demo.
After a full day of technical sessions, Synopsys R&D Night provided an opportunity to relax and network with their peers and Synopsys representatives. For the first time at SNUG Boston, this event included "R&D Stations" so attendees could easily talk one-on-one with Synopsys development and applications experts.
Day one concluded with a performance from SNUG's own house band, “Blues Compiler", featuring Aart de Geus on lead guitar. |
SNUG Technical Chair, Erich Whitney, Mercury Computer Systems, awards Branimir Ivetic of STMicroelectronics with "First Place Best Paper". Branimir also won the award for "Best First-Time Presenter" at SNUG.
Vincent D'Alessandro and Zahi Abuhamdeh of TranSwitch accept the 'Second Place Best Paper' award.
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On day two, awards were presented to users for best presentation and best technical paper. Congratulations to these SNUG Boston 2006 authors!
1st Place, Best Paper:
"HSIM's Integration within ST Design Flow for Smart Power and High Voltage Technologies"
Branimir Ivetic, Claudio Vignati, Lyes Djama, Stefano Camera - ST Microelectronics; Luong Nguyen - Synopsys, Inc.
2nd Place, Best Paper:
"A Case Study Of Hierarchal Scan Compression Implementation Using Synopsys' DFT MAX"
Vincent D'Alessandro, Zahi Abuhamdeh - TranSwitch; David Chagnon , Kristine Westland, Pam Smoot -Synopsys, Inc.
3rd Place, Best Paper:
"Aggressive Leakage Management in ARM Based Systems"
John Biggs, ARM; Alan Gibbons – Synopsys, Inc.
Technical Committee Award:
"Standard Gotchas -- Subtleties in the Verilog and SystemVerilog Standards That Every Engineer Should Know"
Stuart Sutherland - Sutherland HDL, Inc.; Don Mills - LCDM Engineering
Technical Committee Award, Honorable Mention:
"HSPICE in DDR2 Analysis"
Jim Antonellis - Broadcom Corp.
Technical Committee Award, Honorable Mention:
"Predicting Chip-package Resonance of the Power Distribution Network using PrimeRail"
Gregory Beers, James Kirk, Scott Coates - Agere Systems; Cristian Golovanov, Andrew Cirigliano - Synopsys, Inc.
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SNUG would not be complete without the Poster Session, which gave attendees a chance to mingle with all users who presented at SNUG. This popular session provided a break in the program before technical sessions convened again for the last track.
Thank you to the 71 users who authored user papers and participated in panels at SNUG.
To view all SNUG Boston 2006 user papers, presentations and tutorials, please visit the SNUG papers library at http://www.snug-universal.org/papers/papers.htm
See you next year!! |
Members of the SNUG Boston Technical Committee met at the conclusion of SNUG to discuss the conference.
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