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SNUG San Jose 2005
Trip Report

The fifteenth annual SNUG San Jose convened March 14-16 at the Santa Clara Marriott hotel in Santa Clara, CA. A record 1,051users came to take in 43 user presentations, 16 Synopsys tutorials and 12 R&D panels over the course of three days.

SNUG began with an official welcome and opening remarks by the Technical Chair, Leah Clark of Cypress Semiconductor, who introduced Aart de Geus for his keynote address. Aart's keynote was highlighted by the announcement of IC Compiler, Synopsys' next-generation physical design solution, where he shared the stage with Antun Domic, Sr VP and GM.

With so many users contributing many hours to prepare technical papers and presentations, we're proud to recognize some of our top achievers who won awards at SNUG:



First Place, Best Paper


“Mixed-Signal Design and Verification, Static or Dynamic?”
Johnie Au, Cypress Semiconductor

* award based on attendee voting


Second Place, Best Paper


“Physical Datapath: Regularized Datapath Placement and Optimization Technology”
Anthony Hill (pictured), Duc Bui and Todd Kroeger, Texas Instruments (co-authored by Anand Arunachalam (pictured), Synopsys, Inc.)

* award based on attendee voting



Third Place, Best Paper


“Fight the Power: Power Reduction Ideas for ASIC Designers and Tool Providers”
Serag GadelRab (pictured), David Bond and David Reynolds, Tundra Semiconductor

* award based on attendee voting



Best First-Time Presenter


“Effects of Specialized Clock Routing on Clock Tree Timing, Signal Integrity and Routing Congestion”
Jesse Craig (pictured), IBM (co-authored by Denise Powell, Synopsys, Inc.)

* award based on attendee voting



Technical Committee Award


“Working with PLLs in PrimeTime: Avoiding the 'Phase Locked Oops'”
Paul Zimmer, Zimmer Design Services

* award based on technical committee voting



Technical Committee
Honorable Mention


“Fight the Power: Power Reduction Ideas for ASIC Designers and Tool Providers”
Serag GadelRab (pictured), David Bond and David Reynolds, Tundra Semiconductor

* award based on technical committee voting



Technical Committee
Honorable Mention


“Using VeraR in the Lab”
K.C. Buckenmaier (pictured), Jie Ding and Changyong Yang, Hifn (co-authored by Chris Spear, Synopsys, Inc.)

* award based on technical committee voting

 

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