Hyderabad:
The 19th international conference on very large scale
integration (VLSI) design and the fifth international
conference on embedded systems will be held in Hyderabad
from 3 January to 7 January 2006.
The
five-day conference titled 'Mobile Embedded Systems' is
sponsored by VLSI Society of India (VSI), union ministry
of information technology, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
and ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA).
Addressing
a press conference, the chief operating officer of Conexant
India, Naresh Reddy Malipeddi, said 800 participants from
across the world would demonstrate technology innovation
in VLSI design and embedded systems during the event.
Embedded systems themselves have transformed so much that
today they have become objects of technological attraction
and unique from what they did two decades ago. This is
because they are not only engineered creatively but they
also work in astonishingly different ways.
The
event to be held during January 5-7 will also showcase
products and achievements of the industry and provides
an opportunity for professionals to interact with each
other. The event is being held at Hyderabad after 10 years.
Malipeddi
said that the design of the chip used in iPod was done
at Hyderabad and it was a place where work in VLSI was
outsourced. He said now the 'core activity for the future
was being done here.
Malipeddi
said, "The international conference held in 1997
in Hyderabad set the trend for the industry to look at
Hyderabad as the destination. A large number of players
later set up shop in Hyderabad. We expect the conference
to have similar significance."
He said that there were three VLSI design companies in
the state in 1997 and the number now ranged between 15
and 20.
The first two days of the conference will give a glimpse
of where the future in VLSI and embedded systems lies.
The actual conference will be held over the remaining
three days.
A state-of-the-art exhibition aimed at VLSI professionals
will also be held wherein several of top VLSI design and
embedded systems' companies, including Cadence, Conexant,
Texas Instruments, Portalplayer, ATI Technologies, and
Freescale will showcase their products and services.
The conference covers the entire spectrum of activities
underpinning the semiconductor industry and provides participants
a chance to meet and interact with innovators in the VLSI
industry.
Andreas
Kuehlman of cadence, Henry Potts of Mentor Graphics, Jackson
Hu of UMC, Matthew F. Rhodes of Conexant, and representatives
from some of the leading design firms such as Texas Instruments
and Xilinx have confirmed their participation.
The
registration fee collected would be used to sponsor aspiring
students in attending the conference Malipeddi said.
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