Conference Program    Technical Session

THURSDAY, July 27, 2006, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Room: 307
TOPIC AREA:  INTERCONNECT RELIABILITY AND DFM


   SESSION 59
  PANEL: DFM Where's the Proof of Value?
  Chair: Joe Brandenburg - Consultant, Portland, OR
  Organizers: Linda Marchant and Shishpal Rawat

  How can design teams employ new techniques and still stay within design budgets? How much effort does it require to be an early adopter? How does a design engineer get measurable results to compensate for his effort? The discussion uses the example of a fixed design budget and timeline, and panelists discuss how their tools fit into that budget and what the ROI (monetary, quality, reduced time-to-market, comprehensive yield enhancement) would be.

DFM Panel Extended Abstract


  59.1   PANEL: DFM: Where's the Proof of Value?
  Speaker(s): Joseph Sawicki - Mentor Graphics Corp., Wilsonville, OR
Andrew B. Kahng - Blaze DFM, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Atul Sharan - Clear Shape Technologies, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA
Naeem Zafar - Pyxis Technology, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Mike Gianfagna - Aprio Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
Raul Camposano - Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA