Welcome to the SoC Exhibit & Reception!

6th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference - November 5 & 6, 2008

Exhibit Date & Time:  Wednesday, November 5, From 4:30 PM - 9:00 PM.

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Network with Technologists from Leading-Edge Companies, See innovative Technology & Product Demonstrations, Door Prizes, Complimentary Light Hors D'oeuvres, and Much More. . . 

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Tensilica

Tensilica delivers new on-chip processor-related technologies that provide the low power, programmability and data throughput needed for tomorrow’s demanding applications. Tensilica’s products include Xtensa configurable and Diamond Standard microprocessor cores plus highly automated, high-productivity development tools and a complete and totally integrated suite of software development tools. Tensilica technology leverages proven ASIC design methods, software programming models, and architectural standards to reduce risk and development time. Tensilica’s processors are the engines of SOC design.

Novelics

Novelics is a privately held company founded in 2005 with a simple mission: to raise the bar on Embedded Memory performance for converged SoC applications using standard CMOS logic processing.  Our Embedded Memories are compiler generated and are optimized based on customer selected design criteria: power, density, speed, aspect ratio, DFM and DFT.  The growth in SoC designs for converged applications continues to drive the need for increased amounts and types of high performance Embedded Memories: coolSRAM-6T™, coolSRAM-1T™, coolROM™, coolCache™, coolREG™, and coolOTP™. Hierarchical memory designs have become more critical to ensure a match between processor speed requirements and memory access capabilities. In addition, increased interconnect, I/O bandwidth, and limitations on power consumption continue to drive a greater need for Embedded Memory integration. Process scaling will continue to present challenges for sense amp design margins, higher yield loss, higher leakage currents (read cycle scaling of 0.7x per generation for CMOS SRAM).  Accordingly, SoC designers who want a competitive edge for their products need to leapfrog the power, density, and speed of currently available Embedded Memories while keeping pace with advances in process scaling for future product generations.  Novelics' line of optimized compiler-driven Embedded Memories breaks through these existing conventional limits, providing unprecedented opportunity to pack more functionality in SoC designs, reduce SoC footprints, and eliminate expensive off-chip components.

UK Trade & Investment

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), British Consulate-General, Los Angeles.  

Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world’s most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of over $875 million and employs approximately 4,350 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. 

Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world’s most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of over $875 million and employs approximately 4,350 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. 

Toshiba

Combining quality and flexibility with design engineering expertise, TAEC brings a breadth of advanced, next-generation technologies to its customers. This broad offering includes memory and flash memory-based storage solutions, a broad range of discrete devices, displays, medical tubes, ASICs, custom SOCs, microprocessors, microcontrollers and wireless components for the computing, wireless, networking, automotive and digital consumer markets.  TAEC is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp. (Toshiba), Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world's fourth largest semiconductor manufacturer. In more than 130 years of operation, Toshiba has recorded numerous firsts and made many valuable contributions to technology and society.

Innovative Silicon

Innovative Silicon Inc. (ISi) develops and licenses Z-RAM® - the world’s densest and lowest-cost memory technology. Z-RAM – which stands for “Zero-Capacitor DRAM” – is a direct replacement for today’s DRAM technologies and is ideal for complex Systems-on-Chip (SoC), microprocessors, and stand-alone DRAMs. The Z-RAM memory technology has been licensed by Hynix Semiconductor for use in stand-alone DRAM ICs, and has been licensed by AMD for creating large on-chip cache memories in future microprocessor designs.

The award winning Z-RAM memory technology, which harnesses the floating body effect of silicon on insulator (SOI) semiconductor devices, provides the following advantages over standard bulk silicon memory technologies:

The world’s simplest memory bitcell – Z-RAM uses a single transistor, and nothing else

Better scalability path to smaller process geometries – to 32nm and smaller
Smaller die sizes which are a direct result of Z-RAM’s smaller bitcell
   Up to twice as dense as bulk DRAM
   Up to five times as dense as SRAM
Faster technology node introduction and simplified manufacturing flows because there are no capacitors to build
Shorter manufacturing cycles times, less work in progress and fewer “at-risk” wafers 

GiDEL

GiDEL Ltd. is a successful, profitable and innovative company which was founded in 1993. GiDEL has become one of the market leaders as a company that continuously provides cutting-edge reconfigurable technology utilizing FPGAs. GiDEL sees it's customers as partners and uses its vast experience at the project-level and FPGA design to focus on its customers' projects’ success. Customers in semiconductor, consumer product, communications, machine vision, medical imaging, and military/aerospace markets purchase the PROC family of reconfigurable PROCessors (1) for SoC and ASIC verification, (2) as COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) acquisition and accelerator boards, and (3) to validate complex algorithms. For more information, contact GiDEL in North America at 408-969-0389, or worldwide at +972 4 610 2505, or on the web at www.gidel.com.

Virage Logic

Virage Logic is a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex integrated circuits. The company's highly differentiated product portfolio of Physical and Application Specific IP includes embedded SRAMs, embedded NVMs, logic libraries, I/Os and DDR memory controller subsystems. As the industry's trusted IP partner, foundries, IDMs and fabless customers rely on Virage Logic to achieve higher performance, lower power, higher density and optimal yield, as well as shorten time-to-market and time-to-volume. For more information, visit www.viragelogic.com.

CoFluent Design

CoFluent Design provides integrated solutions to bridge the gap between the specification of an electronic system and its implementation. Its CoFluent Studio™ ESL modeling and simulation software environment allows developers of electronic devices and chips to:
- DECIDE: Securely predict behavior and performance from partial software and hardware for design validation at all stages
- SHARE: Provide system executable specifications rather than static documents for common hardware / software reference
- CAPITALIZE: Capture projects’ system design expertise in enterprise model libraries for easier and faster innovation
For further details please visit: http://www.cofluentdesign.com

Key ASIC

Key ASIC is a privately held fabless ASIC company providing high-performance, low-power ASIC design and manufacturing services for consumer, wireless and personal electronics applications. With proven silicon and a broad, domain-specific IP platform covering digital, mixed-signal and peripheral component IP blocks, Key ASIC offers superior design flow and optimization technology to quickly and cost-effectively meet system-on-chip (SoC) requirements for high-volume, high-performance, and low cost consumer applications. Please visit Key ASIC at www.keyasic.com

Prodesign Electronics Corp.

Pro Design USA is dedicated to the sales and support of the complete family of CHIPit hardware-assisted verification platforms for ASIC and SoC developers in North America. The parent company, Pro Design Electronics Corporation, has headquarters in Munich, Germany. The privately held company was founded in 1981 and has over 80 employees, with various facilities for research, design, and sales in Germany, France and the U.S. The company's products and services include the CHIPit family of hardware-assisted verification tools, hardware and software development, and image processing solutions.

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Apache Design Solutions

Apache delivers the industry’s leading power, noise, and reliability (PNR) signoff solutions for chip, package, and system designs. Apache’s innovative platforms considers multiple noise sources that impact the design--such as power, signal, package / system IO, substrate, and temperature—and enables engineers to optimize and validate their designs. Certified by TSMC and Common Platform Reference Flows, Apache’s products are adopted by 80% of the top IDM, fabless semiconductor, and foundries for risk mitigation, cost reduction, and time-to-market improvements. Apache is a global company with R&D centers and direct sales / support offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.apache-da.com.
 

Carbon Design Systems

Carbon Model Studio is a complete solution for the automatic generation, validation, and execution of hardware-accurate software models. Carbon Model Studio compiles RTL into software models which link directly into virtual platform environments such as ARM’s RealView SoC Designer. Carbon models enable accurate architectural analysis, presilicon software integration and secure external model distribution.

Carbon will be demonstrating its Model Studio and SoC Designer products.  Carbon Model Studio is a solution for the automatic generation, validation and execution of hardware accurate software models Carbon SoC Designer is a virtual platform environment which enables the development, execution and analysis of systems prior to silicon.

Northwest EMC

Northwest EMC offers customers comprehensive, state-of-the-art testing services. We serve our customers from initial contact, completion of the approval process, and then on to market. A one stop shopping source for meeting all EMC regulatory requirements, Northwest EMC goes further and offers a broad spectrum of expanded services as well: personal consultation, initial assessment, design support, professional technical support, full documentation services, and certification services. For additional information, please visit our website at www.nwemc.com.
 

Target

Target (www.retarget.com) is the leading provider of EDA tools for the design, programming, and verification of application specific processor cores (ASIPs). ASIPs provide an alternative to the two most common implementation choices (software running on general purpose embedded processors or algorithms implemented as fixed function RTL). With ASIPs, IP
designers can create designs that perfectly match design requirements for both efficiency and flexibility. Target's IP Designer tool-suite includes unique, patented, retargetable
C-compiler technology that produces code of comparable efficiency to hand-optimized assembly code. Also included is automated RTL generation especially tuned to low-power requirements. Fast instruction-set simulation, insightful debug tools, and comprehensive verification tools round out the offering.  IP Designer has been applied by customers worldwide for diverse application domains, including GSM, WCDMA and HSDPA handsets, VoIP, audio coding, automotive infotainment, ADSL and VDSL modems, wireless LAN, hearing
instruments, mobile image processing, video processing, and various control and interfacing applications. Target is a spin-off of IMEC, is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, with North American operations in Boulder, Colorado.

 

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PalmChip

The AcurX SoC Platform integrates common processor cores, popular peripherals, and proprietary intellectual property to provide optimized solutions, such as this Demonstration which runs a Linux Network Server, communicates with a personal computer, and plays movies.

NoiseCoupling.com

NoiseCoupling.com is a privately held company focusing on research of noise coupling in integrated circuits and Systems-on-Chip, development of noise coupling models and simulation techniques, and noise coupling education through publications, technical seminars, and hands-on workshops. NoiseCoupling.com’s mission is to build the technical skills needed to understand the noise coupling mechanisms in various fabrication technologies and including the parasitic effects of packages, interconnects, and printed circuit boards, to implement efficient suppression techniques that match the noise coupling mechanisms in each specific application, and to perform accurate simulations that cover all the dominant noise coupling mechanisms existent in a particular design.

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California State University, Fullerton

California State University, Fullerton is a high-quality, comprehensive four-year public university that offers superior teaching and prepares students to be leaders in business and industry, science, education, community service, the arts, politics, and many other fields. Part of a 23-campus California State University System that views learning as a powerful force for growth and change, Cal State Fullerton offers over 100 degree programs (graduate and undergraduate) in eight colleges, as well as a number of certificate programs. The university is located in a region known for its economic vitality, cultural diversity, multitude of leisure activities and attractions, and ideal climate.   The College of Engineering and Computer Science at Cal State Fullerton offers bachelor's and master's degrees in Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, as well as a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering and an online master's degree in Software Engineering.

Chapman University

Chapman University will be sharing information regarding its Computer Science and Embedded Engineering Program with the SoC Conference and Exhibit attendees.