ARTICLE FEBRUARY 2002 MEDEA+ Contributions to the DATE 2002 Conference
The upcoming DATE 2002 (Design Automation and Test in Europe) Conference and Exhibition week in Paris (March 4-8, Palais des Congr?s; http://www.date-conference.com) is the ideal environment to demonstrate for the professionals in the Design, Automation and Test domains the R&D progress that has been achieved recently in MEDEA+ projects. The project management of the MEDEA+ project T101 "Technology-driven design and test for system innovation on silicon (TechnoDat)" and of the project A502 MESA ("Multiprocessor Embedded Systems Architectures") invites the international CAD and Test community - and the press - to
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The purpose of the MEDEA+ T101 TechnoDat project is to provide the platform for cross-enterprise and cross-disciplinary semiconductor design, verification and testing when developing new circuits, especially in the increasingly important complete system-on-chip (SoC) arena, down to 70 nm. In the sub-100 nm realm, the smaller structures themselves require new features to be integrated into the design flow: effects have to be taken into account which could have been neglected in past generations. New materials such as copper and low-k dielectrics for interconnects and/or high-k materials for gate dielectrics with different electrical properties require separate treatments. Designers have to adapt their tools to the special new features of the respective technology generation. During the 1-day public TechnoDat Workshop, 11 European Partners from 6 countries will present their cooperative work, focused on low-cost testing, safe embeddability and physical effects analysis (substrate noise, radiations). The MEDEA+ Project MESA aims at flexible design platforms for multi-processor architecture design. Access to the 2 MEDEA+ workshops is free. Pre-registration is requested. The project management of the MEDEA+ project A510 ANASTASIA+ ("Analogue Enhancements for a System to Silicon Automated Design") invites to the HOT TOPIC-Presentation "From System Specification to Layout: on Thursday, March 7 (11:00 - 12:30). The session is dedicated to latest R&D activities within the MEDEA+ project ANASTASIA+. Main focus will be the development of seamless top-down design methods for integrated analogue and mixed-signal systems and to achieve a high level of automation and reuse in the A/MS design process. These efforts are motivated by the urgent need to close the current gap in the industrial design flow between system specification and design on the one hand and block-level circuit design on the other hand. On Wednesday, March 6 (9:00 - 10:30) a high-level panel (A A Jerraya, TIMA, Grenoble; M Rogers, Intel, US; W Rosenstiel, FZI/Tuebingen U, Germany; I Rugen-Herzig, Infineon Technologies, Germany; F Theeuwen, Philips Research, NL) with G Matheron, Director of MEDEA+ Office, as moderator will dicuss the MEDEA+ and ITRS Roadmaps in EDA. The panellists will present the strategies in their respective fields of interest, resulting from their working groups conclusions. They will underline the breakthroughs and potential developments of solutions and the milestones to reduce design times and increase design quality. The focus will be on application driven solutions, mostly in the SoC domains (covering both hardware, embedded and application softwares). Approximately 4,000 professionals and academics are expected to gather at the DATE 2002 week. Keynotes will be a prominent part of the programme. This year, DATE has invited consultant Joseph BOREL to talk about "EUROPEAN CAD FROM THE 60'S TO THE NEW MILLENIUM" (Technical Plenary - Thursday, March 7, 13:45). Joseph BOREL is the motor behind the first-ever public European "MEDEA Design Automation Roadmap" published by the MEDEA Office in 1999 and 2000 and its coming update? | ||||
