EDN -- 04.11.96 CICC provides leading-edge IC design information

Out in Front: April 11, 1996

CICC provides leading-edge IC design information

The 18th annual Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) will be held May 5 to 8 in San Diego. The conference promises to be a good place for you to meet and share information with system and IC designers on the latest advances in technology and applications. The conference combines educational and technical sessions with exhibits from leading ASIC and EDA companies.

The educational sessions on May 5 combine two full- and two half-day tracks. Topics include advanced IC design, wireless, advanced-technology interconnect issues, and communication systems. The 20 technical sessions, comprising 113 papers, cover the design and application of PLDs, gate arrays, cell-based chips, and full-custom ICs.

Keynote speaker Wally Rhines, president and CEO of Mentor Graphics, will talk on "Laying the Groundwork for the 21st Century Design Environment." CICC's luncheon speaker, Commander John Green, Science Advisor for Submarine Development at the US Navy's Deep Submergence Unit, shifts from deep-submicron to deep-sea exploration. Two evening panels address business issues associated with deep-submicron design and the technical challenges of 1-million-gate chip designs.

For further information about CICC, contact Melissa Widerkehr at CICC or visit the CICC home page at http://uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu/~brian/cicc.html.

—by Jim Lipman
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, San Diego, CA. (301) 527-0902.