WHO: Len Perham, Chairman of the Board of Optimal Corporation (San Jose, California) and NetLogic Microsystems (Mountain View, California)(NASDAQ:NETL); Senior Advisor to AsiaTech Management (Santa Clara, California) WHAT: EDA Industry Leaders will participate on a live panel discussion about the future of electronic design automation and how it provides value to the chip makers. The panelists, composed of executives from chip and EDA companies, market research and investment firms, will discuss why the EDA industry has remained static for half a decade and what lies ahead for the industry. Panelists include Perham, along with Jack Harding, Chairman, President, and CEO of eSilicon; Gary Smith, Vice President and Chief Analyst of Gartner Dataquest; Richard Tobias, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Pixelworks; and Jim Hogan, Private Investor. Richard Goering, Group Editorial Director for EDA at EETimes will be moderating. WHEN & Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 10:30-11:45am WHERE: Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, California, USA Room 203/204
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About Optimal Corporation
Optimal Corporation is the leading provider of high-performance EDA tools. Optimal's state-of-the-art technology enables design engineers to accurately and rapidly simulate and analyze the signal integrity, power integrity and thermal/mechanical characteristics of their high-speed designs. Optimal's customers include top-tier IC design houses, semiconductor manufacturers, electronic packaging houses, global IC foundries and advanced board designers. For more information about Optimal, visit www.optimalcorp.com or contact Optimal at info@optimalcorp.com.
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