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Back to the roots The Custom Integrated Circuits Conference returns this year to Rochester, but in a new surrounding. For the past years the new building was slowly developing across the street of the Genesee Plaza Holiday Inn. And every year it looked like the year before. But the miracle has happened, and the new grounds can be taken into use. The CICC’86 program shows clearly the progress in the ASIC industry. It is not only a series of papers on technologies, devices and gate arrays. But this year’s conference devotes also much attention to cell libraries, cell compilers, core cells and module generators (both digital and analogue). Furthermore, there are sessions on sensors, analogue/digital interfaces, CAD software, design methodologies and custom applications. The range of speakers is impressive, with subjects ranging from a new 132 mm square DSP to Zipper CMOS and GaAs circuitry. The program also lists some discussion evening sessions: - ASIC: where are we, where are we going and how do we get there? - Hardware accelerators: is faster always better? - Breadboarding versus logic simulation, - DSP alternatives: custom versus standard components. and then of course there is the SPICE USER GROUP meeting!
News
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Back to the roots The Custom Integrated Circuits Conference returns this year to Rochester, but in a new surrounding. For the past years the new building was slowly developing across the street of the Genesee Plaza Holiday Inn. And every year it looked like the year before. But the miracle has happened, and the new grounds can be taken into use. The CICC’86 program shows clearly the progress in the ASIC industry. It is not only a series of papers on technologies, devices and gate arrays. But this year’s conference devotes also much attention to cell libraries, cell compilers, core cells and module generators (both digital and analogue). Furthermore, there are sessions on sensors, analogue/digital interfaces, CAD software, design methodologies and custom applications. The range of speakers is impressive, with subjects ranging from a new 132 mm square DSP to Zipper CMOS and GaAs circuitry. The program also lists some discussion evening sessions: - ASIC: where are we, where are we going and how do we get there? - Hardware accelerators: is faster always better? - Breadboarding versus logic simulation, - DSP alternatives: custom versus standard components. and then of course there is the SPICE USER GROUP meeting!