| Sunday, February 24 |
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Time |
Program |
| 11:00am-6:00pm |
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION |
| 1:00-5:00 pm |
Workshops: |
| 5:00-7:00 pm |
Welcome Reception |
| 7:00-9:00 pm |
Steering Committee Meeting |
| Monday, February 25 |
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Time |
Program |
| 7:30-9:00 am |
Speaker Breakfast |
| 7:30-9:00 am |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:15 am |
Opening Remarks
David Zar |
| 9:15-9:45 am |
Mentor Graphics Welcome
Wally Rhines |
| 9:45-10:15 am |
Customer Support Update Tom Floodeen |
| 10:15-10:30 am |
MUG Appreciation Awards |
| 10:30-10:45 am |
Break |
| 10:45-11:45 am |
Keynote Speaker: Bob Colwell, Independent Consultant
Title: Microprocessor War Stories |
| 11:45am-12:45pm |
Analog_Sim SIG Meeting |
| 11:45am-12:45pm |
University SIG Lunch Meeting |
| 11:45am-12:45pm |
RF SIG Meeting |
| 11:45am-12:45pm |
Lunch |
| |
Design Support |
PCB Design1 |
PCB Design2 |
Circuit & System Design |
| 12:45-2:15 pm |
9. Automatic FPGA Mapping - Kodak - 30 mins
6. Putting the (Mentor) User in Usability - Mentor - 30 mins |
What's New & Cool with Board Station RE - 30 min (new user) & 30 mins (expert user) |
What's New and Different in WG2000.5 - 60 mins |
2. Accurate Simulation of Mosfet - Signal Processing - 20 mins |
| 5. Pick it Click it, Get Information - Mentor - 30 mins |
52. Using Variants in PCB Designs - Honeywell - 30 mins |
59. FPGA on Board - Mentor - 45 mins |
58. Configuration of Extraction Deck for an N-Well CMOS Process - Duke University - 20 mins
53. Developing Applications in Power Electronics - PUC Mines - 20 mins |
| 2:15-2:45 pm |
Break |
| |
Design Support |
PCB Design1 |
PCB Design2 |
Circuit & System Design |
| 2:45-3:45 pm |
Library SIG Meeting |
15. Calculating Component Area Reqs. - Mentor - 30 mins
32. Finding a Needle in the Haystack - QCP - 20 mins |
60. Key-In Commands for Expedition and Rule Areas - Mentor - 60 mins |
IC Q&A and BOF |
| 3:45-4:00 pm |
Break |
| |
Design Support |
PCB Design1 |
PCB Design2 |
Circuit & System Design |
| 4:00-5:30 pm |
31. Using WorkXpert - Litton - 30 mins
21. A Few ExAmple Concepts - Lockheed Martin - 30 mins
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18. Front End Board Design Panel - Mentor - 90-120 mins |
41. WG2000.05 Out of the Box - Loading the Software and System Setup - 90 mins |
4. A comparison of Two VHDL Memory Modeling Techniques - Acuson - 20 mins
35. Animation of a VHDL Model using ModelSim - U of Missouri - 20 mins
36. A New Technique for Modeling - Mentor - 20 mins
42. Library Verification - Mentor - 20 mins |
| 5:30-6:30 pm |
|
PCB SIG Meeting - 30+ mins |
VBUG Business Meeting |
|
| 6:30-10:00 pm |
Dave and Busters - Evening Activity - Complimentary Bus Transportation |
| Tuesday, February 26 |
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Time |
Program |
| 7:30-9:00 am |
Breakfast |
| 7:30-9:00 am |
62. Userware SIG Meeting (Breakfast) |
| 7:30-9:00 am |
License SIG Meeting (Breakfast) |
| |
Design Support |
PCB Design1 |
PCB Design2 |
Circuit & System Design |
| 9:00-10:30 am |
Design Env Q&A - 45 mins
Design Environment SIG - 45 mins |
25. Interfacing Exp PCB to Harness - Micromass - 20 mins
14. Lcable - Embraer - 20 mins
33. Wire harness Design - Mentor - 45 mins |
46. Cooking Show - Getting started/FPGAs - 30 mins
12. DXF & IDF Import & Export - Sercel - 25-30 mins
55. Expedition Library Manager Glitches & Workarounds - Optimum Design Assoc. - 30 mins |
1. New Technique for Fast Number Comparison - Wayne State - 20 mins
3. Modulo RNS Arithmetic Adder & Multiplier Implementation - Wayne State - 20 mins
10. An ASIC Application of the RSA Algorithm - Hacettepe Univ. - 20 mins |
| 10:30-10:45 am |
Break |
| |
Design Support |
PCB Design1 |
PCB Design2 |
Circuit & System Design |
| 10:45am-12:15pm |
22. Putting FlexLM Report Logs to work - Honeywell - 20 mins
26. Managing Design Automation Licensing in SAMsuite - APL/Northrop - 30 mins
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56. Generating a PDF w/ Searchable Text from a Board Station Layout - Lockheed - 30 mins
57. Engineering & Manufacturing Collaboration in the 21st Century - e4eNet - 30 mins |
47. Cooking Show - Design Capture/Libraries - 30 mins
Expedition SIG Meetings - Exp_Lib, Exp_DC, Exp_PCB |
ASIC/FPGA SIG and Exp_FPGA SIG Meeting |
| 12:15-4:00 pm |
Tradeshow (lunch included) |
| 4:00-5:30 pm |
PCB Roadmap |
| 5:30-6:30 pm |
Special Meeting - MUG Incorporation |
| 6:30-10:00 pm |
Denver LoDo (Lower Downtown District) - Evening Activity - Complimentary Bus Transportation |
| Wednesday, February 27 |
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Time |
Program |
| 7:30-8:30 am |
Breakfast |
| 7:30-8:30 am |
Workflow SIG Meeting (Breakfast) |
| 7:30-8:30 am |
Cable SIG Meeting (Breakfast) |
| 8:30-9:30 am |
MUG Business Meeting |
| 9:30-9:45 am |
Break |
| |
Design Support |
PCB Design1 |
PCB Design2 |
Circuit & System Design |
| 9:45-10:45 am |
16. Project Priority Mgmnt w/ModelSim & LSF - Platform Computing - 30 mins 44. Displaying the Interface of a Remotely-Run Tool on Linux - Mentor - 20 mins |
61. How HDI Can Lower Board Costs, Improve TTM and Electrical Performance - Westwood Associates - 60 mins
|
ASIC/FPGA Roadmap with Q&A |
| 10:45-11:00 am |
Break |
| |
Design Support |
PCB Design1 |
PCB Design2 |
Circuit & System Design |
| 11:00am-12:00pm |
45. Vision for Linux in EDA - Panel discussion - Sun, HP & Mentor |
30. A comparison of IS simulations - Hughes/Mentor - 30 mins
28. Library Migration - Mentor Classic Structure to Expedition Library Structure - Sandia National Labs - 30 mins |
29. Zero to Boards in 6.8 Weeks - AirPrime - 30 mins
38. BGA Design Using Expedition - Intel/Sercel - 30 mins |
17. Designing an Interconnection Network Test Bed - U of Alabama - 20 mins
40. What About the Little Ones - HEP, U of Illinois - 30 mins |
| 12:00-1:00 pm |
Lunch |
| 12:00-1:00 pm |
SIG Officers Lunch |
| |
Design Support |
PCB Design1 |
PCB Design2 |
Circuit & System Design |
| 1:00-2:00 pm |
23. An Implementation of Concurrent Engineering - AMD - 20 mins
20. Process and Tools Training - Northrop - 30-45 mins
|
PCB Executive Q&A |
63. FPGA Advantage - Design creation, management, simulation & synthesis in one complete flow - Mentor - 60 mins |
| 2:00-2:15 pm |
Break |
| 2:15-3:15 pm |
8. Electronic Model
Attachment - Kodak - 30 mins
37. Fixing the "Split" Symbol Problem & other Nifty QuickSim/QuickSim Pro Enhancements - Mentor - 30 mins |
Library & Data Management Session - Mentor - 60 mins |
51.
Powerful, Intuitive Synthesis for FPGA Design
- Mentor - 60 mins |
| 3:15-3:45 pm |
Break |
| 3:45-4:45 pm |
50.
O/S Forum - APL and Mentor - 60 mins |
PCB Userware Future - Mentor - 60 mins |
48. Cooking Show - PCB - 30 mins
49. Cooking Show - End game - 30 mins |
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| 4:45-6:00 pm |
Closing Happy Hour |