Cadence Successfully Concludes its Flagship User Conference CDNLive India 2015

BANGALORE, August 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

User Conference Provides a Platform for Design Engineers to Exchange Ideas and Best Practices

Cadence Design Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), successfully concluded its annual flagship user conference CDNLive India 2015. The conference brought together users and industry experts from semiconductor and electronics product and design services companies, and featured keynotes from Texas Instruments and Samsung. The winners of CDNLive India 2015 Best Paper Awards were also announced. 

The two-day conference, held on August 18 and 19, provided an opportunity for delegates to network with peers, share best practices, understand the latest solutions and discover new techniques to address their most difficult design challenges.

Speaking about the conference, Jaswinder Ahuja, corporate vice president and managing director of Cadence India, said, "CDNLive India is one of the most important user conferences for the electronics industry today, with a strong focus on technical content. CDNLive provides an opportunity for our customers and partners to exchange ideas, network, share best practices and learn new ways to address their specific design challenges. We received strong interest in CDNLive India right from the Call for Papers process to the live events, which reflects the growth of the semiconductor and electronics design community in India."

On Day 1, August 18, Lip-Bu Tan, president and CEO of Cadence, gave a keynote address on "Innovation in System Design Enablement." This presentation was followed by a technology keynote by Chin-Chi Teng, corporate vice president of the Digital and Signoff Group at Cadence. The guest keynote on Day 1 was Mahesh Mehendale, MCU Chief Technologist and director of Kilby Labs India at Texas Instruments, who addressed the audience about ultra-low power challenges in the context of IoT. On Day 2, August 19, Nimish Modi, senior vice president, Marketing and Business Development at Cadence spoke about the latest in system design enablement. Mike Stellfox, a fellow in the System and Verification Group at Cadence, spoke on "Cadence System and Verification Vision" and Balajee Sowrirajan, vice president - DS India Lab, Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore, spoke on "System Verification Challenges for SoCs Powering the Connected World."

The conference featured 10 tracks, 92 paper presentations, 5 technology update presentations, a design IP breakout session, technology pods on the latest Cadence® technologies and an exhibition area with booths by Cadence partners and customers.

Companies such as Analog Devices, ARM, Broadcom, eInfochips, Freescale, Hyundai Mobis, IBM, L&T Infosystems, NVIDIA, NXP, OmniPhy, Open-Silicon, PMC-Sierra, Qualcomm, Rambus, Samsung, SanDisk, Sankalp Semiconductor, Sanmina Technology, Seagate, SilabTech, Silicon Image, STMicroelectronics, Tata Motors, Tessolve, Texas Instruments and Xilinx presented papers.

The best paper award winners were:

           TRACK              COMPANY                       TITLE
    RTL-to-Signoff:                         "3GHz and beyond" - Jumping To The
    Digital                                 New Performance Spectrum With ARM(R)
    Implementation       ARM                Cortex(R)-A72
                                            Seamless Deployment Of MSS With
    RTL-to-Signoff:                         Smart-Scan Solution To Enable Higher
    Front-End Design     Texas Instruments  Multi-Site Test for Large Scale SoCs
    RTL-to-Signoff:
    Signoff              Open-Silicon       Metal Programmable Clock Delay Line
                                            Surviving Eternal Conflict Of
                                            Accuracy And Cost - Efficient Analog
                                            Mixed Signal Co-simulation With
    Mixed-Signal Design  Texas Instruments  Spectre-XPS-MS
                                            Addressing 14FDSOI Custom Routing
    Custom IC/Analog                        Complexity Through Existing ST +
    Design               STMicroelectronics Cadence Solutions
    System /
    Verification:
    Advanced             Samsung Research   Incremental And Configurable
    Verification         Institute -        Verification Strategies For Modern
    Methodology          Bangalore          SoCs
    System /                                Modeling And Verification Using
    Verification:                           System Verilog In Virtuoso And
    Performance & Debug  SilabTech          Incisive Enterprise Simulator (NCSIM)
    System /
    Verification:
    Hardware Assisted    Freescale          Methods For Enabling BootROM Firmware
    HW/SW Development    Semiconductor      Code Coverage on Palladium
    System /
    Verification: Formal                    SLICE System - SoC Level Inter
    Verification         Qualcomm           Connection Extractor
    PCB Design & IC                         Advantages Of Cadence Simulation
    Packaging            Tata Motors Pune   Tools In Automotive ECU Environment

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For more information please contact:

Madhavi Rao
Cadence Design Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.
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Zibi Jamal
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