IEEE International SOC Conference
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The crippling cost of SoC design is to come under the spotlight at the 22nd IEEE International SOC Conference which this year comes to Europe for the first time.
The event, to be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 9-11 September 2009, has attracted a number of guest speakers. They include Hermann Eul of Infineon – who will give the keynote address - James O'Riordan of Silicon & Software Systems and Liang-Gee Chen, professor, department of electrical engineering, National Taiwan University.
Other conference highlights include a panel discussion focusing on how the increasing design complexity of state of the art SoCs is inflating the design and verification cost of new products.
General conference chair, Dr Sakir Sezer, SoC cluster director of research at Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology, says that 500 man years of design effort is now the norm rather than the exception: "The cost spiral of SoC is constraining fundraising for the classical fabless semiconductor startup model. New SoC fabless design startups are failing year on year as essential costs rise. The panel discussion will address these issues from both academic and industrial research perspectives and it will undoubtedly be one of this year's highlights."
The three day conference is being held at Belfast's Wellington Park Hotel.
For further information on the 22nd IEEE International SOC Conference, please contact:
Dr Sakir Sezer, general conference chair
Telephone: +44 (0) 28 9097 1703
Email: s.sezer@ieee-socc.org
