si-list- I am forwarding this to si-list at the request of one of the Workshop Cha= irs. The FDIP'04 will take place before the EPEP'04, on Sunday afternoon. Please refer any questions to the contacts given at the bottom of the mes= sage. -ray -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------------------------------------------ Announcement Future Directions in IC and Package Design Workshop, FDIP=E2=80=9904 sponsored by: IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society organized by: CPMT Technical Committee on Electrical Design, Modeling, and Simulation (TC-EDMS) October 24, 2004 Portland, Oregon The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to address the future nee= ds associated with the design of next generation ICs and packages. The Technical Program Committee will solicit invited presentations from exper= ts in the university and industrial communities. The workshop will be held = in conjunction with the IEEE Topical Meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging in order to enhance this conference with presentatio= ns that give directions for future requirements and developments in the area= of electrical analysis and design. The workshop will foster active participation and discussions from all the speakers and attendees during the meeting. The following talks are planned: Gigascale Integration =E2=80=93 Design Challenges and Opportunities, S= hekhar Borkar, Intel Corporation Emerging Trends in High-Speed Interconnects and Packaging Engineering,= Sergio Camerlo, Cisco Systems Analog RF CMOS and Optical Design Techniques for 10+ Gbps Datacom, Martin Schmatz, IBM Corporation Power Distribution: Status and Challenges, Madhavan Swaminathan, Georg= ia Institute of Technology Signal Integrity Modeling and Simulation for IC/Package Co-Design, Ching-Chao Huang, Optimal Corporation Current and Future Directions in Simulator Development, Sani Nassif an= d Jaijeet Roychowdhury from IBM Corporation and University of Minnesota Workshop will be held at the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower, 921 = SW Sixth Ave., Portland, OR 97204, 503-226-1611. The hotel is holding a blo= ck of rooms at $99.00 (no tax). Reservations must be made by September 3= 0, 2004 in order to guarantee this rate. Be sure to mention that you a= re attending the EPEP conference in order to secure this rate. For mo= re information on the hotel go to http://www.portland.hilton.com Additional information may be obtained from the workshop chairs: Alina Deutsch deutsch@xxxxxxxx phone: (914) 945-2858 fax: (914) 945-2141 Madhavan Swaminathan madhavan.swaminathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx phone: (404) 894-3340 fax: (404) 894-9959 and the workshop administration: epd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx phone: (520) 621-3054 fax: (520) 621-1443 Attendees interested in the workshop will be charged a $60.0 fee that wi= ll cover afternoon refreshments, digest of abstracts, and posting of the f= oils=20 on the CPMT Society TC-EDMS web site. All attendees must register by September 13, 2004 using the EPEP=E2=80=99= 04 website at www.epep.org in order to assure that the workshop is being held.= =20 On-site registrants will be admitted depending on availability of seatin= g. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu