ICU 2003 Conference Wrap up

At ICU 2003 we had 250 Cadence users which attended the three-day conference in Manchester, New Hampshire. Some of the highlights were, a good strong technical lead from Cadence executives, Lavi Lev, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Implementation Division, Charlie Georgetti, Corporate VP and General Manager, SPB Systems Division, and Ted Vucurevich, CTO - Advanced Research and Development. We had 3 days of technical content mixed with an evening of more technical chat and rides on Segway HT's. The Tuesday night vendor fair was well attended with great raffle prizes given by the vendors, digital cameras etc;. Wednesday night wrapped up with several raffle prizes awarded. We finished the conference with MVP awards that are listed below. Congratulations to all MVPs and thank you for your contribution in making ICU 2003 a success!

For those that could not make the conference, cdrom proceedings will be available at a reduced rate at on October 13, 2003. So check back to our web site www.cadenceusers.org for information on obtaining your copy.

Thanks to all for a very successful conference.


The following are the winners of the ICU MVP awards:

 

PCB SIG

Andreas Kulik

Tcl/Tk and Skill - A Brief Introduction to GUI Development in Cadence Design Systems PCB Design Environment

Ed Hickey

Dynamic Positive Shapes in Allegro 15.0

Steve Durrill
Devin Barrett

ConceptHDL Page Management

IC SIG

Stewart Williams
Jerome Lescot
Tallis Blalack
Dipak Sitaram

New Assura Technologies for On-Chip Parasitic Inductance Extraction Including Substrate Effects

Adam Jatkowski
Joseph Wearing

OSW+ An Advanced Hierarchical Object Selection Utility

James Roberts

Automated Library management Using dbWriteSkill

SYS ADM SIG

Shesha Kirshnapura

End-to-End IA/Linux EDA Computing Solution

Billy Vitro
Devin Barrett

Project-based Fairshare in LSF Server Farms

Scott Baeder

Electronic Licensing: Techniques and Technology

Please be sure to check out our website at www.cadenceusers.org for information on ICU 2004, in Santa Clara, California.

Hope to see you there!

Regards,
Donna Ducharme
ICU Chair