ESC-Taiwan will be held from August 17-18 at the Taipei International Convention Center along with the 14th Annual Electronic Design Automation & Test-Taiwan Conference & Exhibition (EDA&T-Taiwan).
Mark Saunderson, President of Global Sources' Electronics Business Unit, said: "Taiwan's semiconductor industry is expected to generate more than US$39 billion in revenue this year. With the local IC fabless sector growing 13 percent year-on-year to US$9.8 billion, it is Asia-Pacific's most important IC design industry.
"ESC-Taiwan and EDA&T-Taiwan provide Taiwan's IC and system designers hands-on experience with the latest technologies from the industry's key innovators. These events enable leading embedded systems suppliers and EDA tool providers to meet Taiwan's design communities under one roof."
Other companies who have committed to participating at ESC-Taiwan and EDA&T-Taiwan this year include Agilent Technologies, Altera, Ansoft, AVANT, Cadence, Cirrus Logic, Magma, Renesas, Spansion, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, United Microelectronics Corporation and Zuken.
TSMC, Philips, Altera and Wind River Among Companies to Lead Enhanced Conference Program
An enhanced Conference Program aims to give Taiwan designers the unique opportunity to learn new technologies direct from some of the world's largest embedded and EDA technology vendors.
The keynote address will be given by Dr. Fu-Chieh Hsu, vice president of TSMC's Design and Technology Platform. Dr. Hsu will discuss how advances in circuit and process modeling technologies can improve the bottom line.
Designers can also attend the events' first-ever Summit Program where technology experts will discuss some of the industry's hottest topics including:
-- "Designing TV-on-the-go" -- Presenters will include executives
from Frontier Silicon, Imagination Technologies, MontaVista
Software and Philips Semiconductor. August 18, 10:00am.
-- "Multi-core SoCs" - Speakers will include executives from
Altera, ARM, Sunplus Technology, Trolltech ASA and Wind River.
August 18, 1:00pm.
Top Technology Firms to Participate in ESC and EDA&T Technical Seminars Leading technology providers will address challenges faced today by Taiwan's IC and system designers at the events' technical seminars.
ESC-Taiwan seminars will be hosted by embedded systems providers including Agilent Technologies, Atmel, CoWare, National Instruments, Renesas Technology, Spansion and TeraSoft.
At EDA&T-Taiwan, seminars will be hosted by EDA tool companies and distributors including Ansoft, AVANT, AMD, Cadence, Incentia Design Systems and Maojet Technology.
Thousands of Design Engineers Expected to Attend
Saunderson said: "Almost 3,000 designers and technical managers from Taiwan's design community attended last year's event. We expect record numbers to attend this year as Taiwan's engineers look to improve their skill sets and learn about the latest technologies and solutions."
In 2005, 70 percent of ESC-Taiwan and EDA&T-Taiwan attendees were design or development engineers and 15 percent were engineering managers.
In addition, most visitors played a strategic role in the decision-making process-77 percent of visitors at ESC-Taiwan 2005 were already using embedded systems or planning to do so. At EDA&T-Taiwan, 68 percent of visitors said they were planning to purchase EDA tools between this year and the next.
Event exhibition hours are 9:30am to 5:00pm. More information and pre-registration for ESC-Taiwan are available at http://www.escasiaexpo.com . Details and pre-registration for EDA&T-Taiwan are available at http://www.edatexpo.com . Both events are free to qualified attendees.
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