15th EDA event from Synopsys was houseful

Synopsys just finished hosting its 15th Synopsys Users Group (SNUG) conference in India to help engineers better address the productivity challenges they face when designing today’s chips and electronic systems. The conference, which has grown into the industry’s largest gathering of semiconductor professionals in India, highlights advancements in semiconductor design and verification that can be used to design even the most complex systems-on-chips (SoCs). More than 2900 leading SoC and system designers who are Synopsys tool and technology users attended the two-day conference June 25th and 26th at the Leela Palace in Bangalore, making it the largest SNUG India event to date. Launched in 2000, SNUG India is part of a global program that began in 1991 and includes 14 user conferences with nearly 10,000 participants around the world. SNUG India 2014 featured 39 user papers that discuss a range of topics, including early exploration, low power implementation and verification, test, mixed-signal verification, emulation and FPGA prototyping. Many of the papers presented address key challenges such as improving design productivity, achieving better quality of results (QoR) and designing for advanced technology nodes. In addition to the user papers, Synopsys offered 19 tutorials to showcase advances in tools and IP to help meet future design and technology challenges. A conferenc...