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ISQED Addresses Electronic Design Challenges, Trends, and Proven Methodologies, March 22-24, 2010, San Jose, California

SAN JOSE, Calif., – March 3, 2010 – The 11th annual International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) today announced its keynote speakers. Industry leaders from Cadence Design Systems, Denali, eBeam Initiative, HelloSoft, Inphi, Mentor Graphics, and Synopsys are slated to discuss challenging issues about quality in electronic design. The conference is being held on March 22-24, 2010 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, CA, USA.

The Keynoters offer comprehensive perspectives about design, process, and tool methodologies. The Keynote speeches are on Tuesday, March 23 and Wednesday, March 24 from 8:30 to 10:30am. The speakers and topics are:

Test of the Future – Some Thoughts for the Next Decade
Antun Domic, Senior VP & GM – 
Synopsys

Design for eBeam: Getting the Best Wafers without the Exploding Mask Cost
Aki Fujimura, CEO – D2S & 
eBeam Initiative

Cost-Aware System LSI Design
Steve Glaser – VP Strategy & Planning – 
Cadence Design Systems

Beyond Endless Verification: Delivering High Quality at Low Expense
Mark Gogolewski, CTO & CFO – 
Denali Software

The New Challenges of Advanced SoC Implementation
Shankar Krishnamoorthy, CTO – 
Mentor Graphics

High Reliability by Design – Creating Enterprise Class Memories
Ramanan Thiagarajah, Sr. Director of Product and Test Engineering – 
Inphi

Mobile Convergence (4G/WiFi/Celluar) – Myths and realities
Krishna Yarlagadda, President & CEO – 
HelloSoft

ISQED media sponsors include EDACafeChip Design Magazine, and SCDsource. The conference is held with technical sponsorship of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, and IEEE CASS, and in cooperation with IEEE Reliability Society, and ACM/SigDA. ISQED is produced and sponsored by the International Society for Quality Electronic Design.

ISQED Registration and Program Info

The ISQED program features 22 technical sessions with over 100 papers on various challenging topics related to design, design for manufacturability and quality, panel discussions, tutorials and exhibits.

ISQED takes place March 22-24, 2010, at the Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, Calif. ISQED Exhibit and Keynote Speeches are open and free. The Exhibit day is Tuesday, March 23 from 1 to 6pm.

The complete ISQED program is at http://www.isqed.org/English/Archives/2010/Program_At-a-Glance.html.

To register for ISQED, please visit http://www.isqed.org/English/Conference/Registration.html.

Multiple interactive tutorials are available for those who desire in-depth, interactive, and focused insight into the various aspects of electronic design.

Recipients of the event’s ISQED Quality (IQ) Award and Best Paper Awards will be announced during the luncheon ceremony, sponsored by Synopsys, on Tuesday, March 23rd. The IQ Award is sponsored by Mentor Graphics. The ISQED Best Paper Awards are sponsored by Synopsys. The ISQED Plenary sessions are sponsored by Mentor Graphics.

About the International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design

The International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) is a premier Design & Design Automation conference, aimed at bridging the gap between and integration of, electronic design tools and processes, integrated circuit technologies, processes and manufacturing, to achieve design quality. ISQED is the pioneer and leading conference dealing with design for manufacturability and quality issues, front to back. The conference provides a forum to present and exchange ideas and to promote research, development, and application of design techniques and methods, design processes, and EDA design methodologies and tools that address issues which impact the quality of the realization of designs into physical integrated circuits. ISQED’s goal is to accelerate cooperation among the IC Design, EDA, and semiconductor process technology and manufacturing communities. Further information about ISQED can be found at http://www.isqed.org.

The conference is produced and sponsored by the International Society for Quality Electronic Design. For more information please visit: www.isqed.org.

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Matrox Supersight e2 HPC platform now available with the IntelĀ® XeonĀ® processor 5600 series

March 16, 2010, Montreal, Canada — Matrox Imaging is pleased to announce their system host boards (SHB), utilizing  the latest Intel® Xeon® processor, 5600 series (formerly codenamed Westmere-EP), are now available for its high performance computing (HPC) platform, Matrox Supersight e2.

Intel Xeon processor 5600 series is based on the latest generation Intel® microachitecture (codenamed Nehalem) using new 32nm process technology. The Intel Xeon processor 5600 series is available in both quad-core and hex-core (six-core) versions.

“This is exciting news for high-throughput applications in industries such as semiconductor and wafer inspections,” explains Michael Chee, Product Manager, Matrox Imaging. “More cores per processor improves parallelism in multi-processing, which translates to performance gains for compute-bound operations of these applications.”

In addition, the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series includes a 12MB shared L3 cache and connects to DDR3L-SDRAM running at up to 1333 MHz. This provides higher bandwidth and better memory performance for I/O-bound operations — a significant benefit for imaging applications.

About Matrox Supersight e2

Matrox Supersight e2 is a high-performance computing platform designed for imaging applications with an extremely high throughput. Leveraging multiple clusters of CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs, Matrox Supersight e2 provides an environment for considerable data and task-level parallel processing through a unique PCI Express® (PCIe®) x16 2.0 (Gen2) switch fabric. Applications for Matrox Supersight e2 are developed with the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) and its Distributed MIL API. As MIL is supported on all Matrox Imaging hardware platforms, development on Matrox Supersight e2 is simplified and ensures the source code is portable across all devices, from nodes with 48 CPU cores and 4 FPGAs, to a node with 12 CPU cores, 1 FPGA and 6 GPUs, and everything in between.

An image of the Matrox Supersight is available on our website.

About Matrox Imaging

Established in 1976, Matrox Imaging is a leading developer of component-level solutions for machine vision, image analysis, medical imaging, and video surveillance. Products include frame grabbers, vision processors, imaging computers, smart cameras, and application development software. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Matrox is a privately held company with offices in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Hong Kong. For more company information, visit:www.matrox.com/imaging/en/about/.

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