Cadence Design Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of
Cadence (NASDAQ: CDNS), today announced the winners of the
Best Paper Awards at CDNLive! India 2011 and the Cadence
India Design Contest.
CDNLive! India brings together Cadence® technology users,
developers, and industry experts to network, share best
practices on critical design and verification issues, and
discover new techniques for realizing advanced silicon, SoCs,
and systems. This year's program featured 40 in-depth
technical presentations over five parallel tracks by
companies such as AMD, Ciena, CircuitSutra Technologies,
Cisco, ECAD Technologies, Freescale Semiconductor, HCL
Technologies, Lantiq, LSI, National Semiconductor, NVIDIA,
Open-Silicon Research, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments,
Wipro and Xilinx.
CDNLive! India 2011 featured a presentation by Dr. Charlie
Huang, senior vice president of Worldwide Field Operations,
Cadence. Dr Srini Rajam, chairman and CEO of Ittiam Systems,
gave the keynote presentation titled "Designing Systems to
Thrive in Disruptive Trends."
The best paper award winners in each of the categories
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Silicon Realization - Unified Digital Flow
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Silicon Realization - Custom / Analog Flow
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Silicon Realization - Functional Verification
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Silicon Realization - PCB & IC Packaging Design
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System Realization
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Dr. Huang's keynote presentation, titled "Realizing EDA360,"
discussed how manufacturing challenges and innovation
requirements are driving deeper collaborations between
foundries and OEM, EDA, and IP companies. Using global
economic trends as a backdrop, he showed the connections
between application-driven product design, changes in the
ecosystem, and new technologies from Cadence for Silicon,
SoC, and System Realization. He cited several recent examples
of collaboration and described several strategic programs
that Cadence is working on.
Jaswinder Ahuja, corporate vice president and managing
director of Cadence Design Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd., said,
"CDNLive! India has grown in stature over the years and is
now one of the industry's premier user conferences. It
provides an unmatched opportunity to exchange ideas, discuss
best practices, and network among peers. This year's event
has seen even greater interest, which was reflected in both
the increased number of attendees and abstracts
submitted."
Cadence also announced the winners of the Cadence India
Design Contest 2011. This is the sixth year that the contest
has been held for students at universities and colleges in
India and the winners represent a range of design
technologies. IIT Bombay won in the Master's category for
their project titled "Scalable Constant Resistance,
Transconductance, Gm/C and their Applications" and IIT
Kharagpur in the Bachelor's category for their paper titled
"Design and Implementation of a High Speed Power Efficient
Hybrid Mode Sense Amplifier for SRAM Applications."
Runners-up were VIT Vellore in the Master's category for
their project "An Efficient VLSI Architecture for Variable
Threshold Simple Edge Preserved De-Noising Technique
Algorithm with Improved Signal to Noise Ratio" and BLDEA's
College of Technology, Bijapur, in the Bachelor's category
for the project titled "Design and Analog VLSI Implementation
of Neural Architecture."
The Cadence India Design Contest
The Cadence India Design Contest, launched in 2005, is an
annual contest established to increase awareness and generate
interest in Digital, Analog and Board design among
engineering students at the bachelors and masters level. The
contest gives students a platform to showcase their talent on
electronic design automation technologies and is open to
students in India who have access to Cadence tools and
technologies through colleges and universities that subscribe
to the Cadence India University Program.
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