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SNUG San Jose 

Celebrating 20 Years of Designer Productivity 

Santa Clara Convention Center 
Santa Clara, CA 
March 28-30, 2011


More than 2100 of your fellow Synopsys technology users attended the 20th annual SNUG San Jose, March 29-31, 2010. We hope to see you next year in 2011!

 

 

1st Place - Best Paper Best First-Time Presenter Constant-Current Threshold Voltage Extraction in HSPICE for Nanoscale CMOS Analog Design
Alvin Loke, Dru Cabler, Chad Lackey, Tin Tin Wee, Bruce Doyle [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.], Zhi-Yuan Wu [GLOBALFOUNDRIES], Reza Moallemi [Synopsys, Inc.]
PaperPresentation


2nd Place - Best Paper Hold is Not Setup (Derate is Not OCV)
Gerard M Blair [LSI Corp.]
PaperPresentation


3rd Place - Best Paper "There’s a better way to do it!" - Simple DC/PT Tricks That Can Change Your Life.
Paul Zimmer [Zimmer Design Systems]
PaperPresentation


Technical Committee Award Honorable Mention Reusable UPF for Multi-Voltage Design & Handling Analog Macros in Power Subsystem
Krishna Vittala [Microchip Technology Inc.]
PaperPresentation


Technical Committee Award Honorable Mention Interoperable Testbenches using VMM TLM
Asif Jafri [Verilab Inc.], Nasib Naser [Synopsys, Inc.]
PaperPresentation


Technical Committee Award Clock Power Reduction-Analysis Metrics and Power Reduction Techniques
Avishek Panigrahi, Arvind Parihar [MIPS Technologies, Inc.]
PaperPresentation


ProceedingsDownload 2010 proceedings
PAPERS (18 MB) PRESENTATIONS (22 MB) TUTORIALS (83 MB)



SNUG thanks the members of the Technical Committee who volunteer their time and expertise to ensure SNUG’s technical quality, local perspective and value to the users of Synopsys tools and technology.

User Technical Chairperson
John Busco, NVIDIA Corp.

Members
Ajay Bavle Microchip Technology
Al Czamara, LOA Technology
Amre Sultan, XtremeEDA Corp.
Andy Copper, ARCH Design Solutions, Inc.
Anwar Hasan, STMicroelectronics
Brian Kane, Northrop Grumman Corp.
Chris Kiegle, IBM
Cliff Cummings, Sunburst Design, Inc.
Darell Whitaker, IBM
Dinesh Tyagi, Innovative Logic
Don Mills, Microchip Technology
Eric Delage, Zodiac Data Systems
Frank Szorc, Linear Technology
Gregg Lahti, Serious Semiconductor
Jason Pecor, Silicon Logic Engineering
John Dickol, MediaTek Wireless, Inc.
Jonah Probell, Consultant
Karthik Rajan, Microchip Technology, Inc.
Kelsey Muma, XtremeEDA Corp.
Leah Clark, Broadcom Corp.
Mark Sprague, AMD

Matt Weber, Silicon Logic Engineering
Mike Bartley, Test Verification and Solutions
Neel Das, SMSC
Paul Lungu, Nortel
Paul Zimmer, Zimmer Design Services
Rainer Mann, Global Foundries
Rick Furtner, Consultant
Ron Goodstein, First Shot Logic Simulation and Design
Ronald Kalim, Consultant
Sachin Parikh, Broadcom Corp.
Satinderjit Singh, ARM, Ltd.
Serag GadelRab, Qualcomm
Surya Hotha, Posedge, Inc.
Tony Todesco, AMD