Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Room: 207ABCD

   SESSION 2
  Panel: Reshaping EDA for Power
  Chair: Jan Rabaey - Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA
  Organizers: Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw

  Today's rising power densities are reminiscent of the end of the bipolar design era twenty years ago and are widely cited as the foremost challenge to continued CMOS scaling. On a more optimistic note, the power bottleneck provides excellent opportunities for EDA innovation in areas such as leakage reduction, power distribution, and low-power clocking. This panel brings together experts in circuit design and CAD tool development to discuss the current status of low-power EDA offerings and provide opinions on what new capabilities are most important in the power-constrained design era.

  2.1   Reshaping EDA for Power
  Speaker(s): Mark Horowitz - Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
Andrew T. Yang - Apache Design Solutions, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Takayasu Sakurai - Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Wolfgang Nebel - Oldenburg Univ., Oldenburg, Germany
Kerry Bernstein - IBM Corp., Essex Junction, VT
Jerry Frenkil - Sequence Design Inc., Acton, MA