AUSTIN, Texas — (BUSINESS WIRE) — May 18, 2010 — The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) today announced the “Advances in Process Design Kits Workshop” being hosted at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) show to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, from June 13-18, 2010. The “Advances in Process Design Kits Workshop” will be held on June 14, from 1PM – 4PM in Room 207C in the Anaheim Convention Center. In consideration of today’s economic conditions, Si2 is pleased to offer this workshop free of charge. Attendees can register at the DAC website: http://www2.dac.com/registration.aspx. The Workshop is listed under Co-Located Events.
Process Design Kits (PDKs) are the fundamental building blocks for all electronic designs. Adopting a set of standards to specify PDK content and interfaces will offer many advantages. Foundries will be able to offer fewer, more robust kits thus reducing their costs and increase their ability to communicate the essential functionality, performance, predictability, and reusability of their OpenPDK’s to the rest of the industry. EDA companies will be able to write tools to standard data definitions and interfaces to enable a higher level of interoperability and consistent usage across tools and flows. For end-users, the resultant reduction in barriers to migrating designs and reusing IP will ease their design challenges thus accelerating their path to working silicon. This workshop will introduce all of the aspects of PDKs and the presenters will describe the state of the art and make recommendations for future work in the following areas. Interoperable Schematic Symbols, Design Parameter Specification, Callback Specifications, Pcells, SPICE Sockets, Technology File enhancements, and Process Retargeting and Verification. The workshop is aimed at providers and consumers of Process Design Kits from across the industry.
Program:
Chair: Nick English-Si2
Introduction to the Open PDK Coalition: Steve Schulz - Si2
Open PDK Plans and Directions: Looking Ahead!: Sumit DasGupta - Si2
End-User Perspective: James Masters and Jose Del Cano - Intel
Foundry Perspective: Tom Quan - TSMC, Andy Brotman - GLOBALFOUNDRIES
EDA Industry Perspective: John Stabenow - Cadence Design Systems, Linda Fosler - Mentor Graphics, Duncan McDonald - SpringSoft
Panel Discussion (all presenters): Chair: James Spoto - Sunrise Micro Devices
“What’s next in OpenPDKs”
Other Si2-sponsored events at DAC include the “Design for Manufacturability Workshop” on June 13, from 1PM-4PM and the Si2 Member/Guest Meeting on June 14, from 6PM-7:30PM. Both of these events are also free of charge and open to all.
Links to more specific agendas and registration information can be found here: http://www.si2.org/?page=11
About Si2
Si2 is the largest organization of industry-leading semiconductor, systems, EDA and manufacturing companies focused on the development and adoption of standards to improve the way integrated circuits are designed and manufactured, in order to speed time-to market, reduce costs, and meet the challenges of sub-micron design. Now in its 22nd year, Si2 is uniquely positioned to enable timely collaboration through dedicated staff and a strong implementation focus driven by its member companies. Si2 represents nearly 100 companies involved in all parts of the silicon supply chain throughout the world. See www.si2.org
Contact:
Silicon Integration Initiative
William Bayer, 512-342-2244, ext. 304
