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8 January 2008
Events News
IEC Announces 2008 DesignVision Award Finalists and Recognizes Best Design Tools and Products for New Year
The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) honored the finalists of the 2008 DesignVision Awards by giving tribute to the best design tools and products in the semiconductor industry. The IEC's first official announcement of winners will take place at the DesignCon 2008 conference and exhibition this February 4-7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Finalists were chosen from a record number of competing products by a panel of judges selected from the 2008 DesignCon Technical Program Committee, which contributed to the development of more than 120 sessions making up this year's educational program. This year's Technical Program Committee consists of 115 of the industry's top thought leaders.
In each of the eight categories, the 2008 award finalists include the following companies and products respectively:
ASIC and IC Design Tools
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. - Cadence Litho Electrical Analyzer
GiDEL Inc. - PROCStar II
Sequence Design - PowerTheater-Explorer
Design Verification Tools
EVE - Zebu-XXL
Mentor Graphics and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. - Open Verification Methodology
Synplicity, Inc - TotalRecall Full Visibility Technology
Interconnect Technologies and Components
Amphenol TCS - XCede
Cinch Connectors - Cinch® iQT Hybrid Interconnect
Sigrity, Inc. - OptimizePI
Semiconductors and ICs
Altera Corporation - Stratix III FPGA
Chip Estimate - ChipEstimate.com and IP Concierge
Gennum Corporation - 3 Gb/s Optical Module
Lattice Semiconductor - LatticeXP2 FPGA Family
Semiconductors and ICs (IP)
ARC International - ARC Video Subsystems
Rambus - The XDRT Memory Architecture
Xilinx, Inc. - Xilinx® MOST® NIC LogiCORET IP Solution
Structured/Platform ASIC, FPGA, and PLD Design Tools
Altera Corporation - Quartus II v7.1 Software with Enhanced SOPC Builder
Lattice Semiconductor - LatticeXP2 FPGA Family
Xilinx - Integrated Software Environment (ISEâ"¢) 9.1i
System-Level Design Tools
Carbon Design Systems - Carbon Model Studio
FuturePlus Systems, Corp. - FS5000 Jitterlyzer
Synplicity, Inc. - Synplify DSP ASIC Edition
Test and Measurement Equipment
Agilent Technologies - Agilent N6705A DC Power Analyzer
ASA Corp. - M1 Oscilloscope Tools v5
SyntheSys Research, Inc. - BERTScope Phase Locked Loop Analyzer
The first official announcement of winners will take place at the 2008 DesignVision Awards Ceremony at DesignCon 2008 on Tuesday, February 5, 2008, at noon in the theater of the Santa Clara Convention Center. Entrance to the awards ceremony is complimentary with an Exhibits Plus Pass available at http://www.designcon.com/2008/register/index.asp .
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