Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced the launch of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Symposium on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Interoperability. The event - scheduled to take place October 24, 2013, in Silicon Valley - is intended to help members of the electronics/semiconductor design and verification community better understand the landscape of EDA and semiconductor intellectual property (IP) standards, as well as the role of these standards to address industry interoperability challenges.
The IEEE-SA symposium builds on the EDA Developers Forum, a long-running interoperability event that Synopsys has hosted 24 times since 1994. The EDA Developers Forum helped the EDA industry mature into a more standards-oriented environment. Interoperability standards have proliferated in EDA, with a diverse array of organisations contributing to such standards.
The new IEEE-SA symposium is intended to help electronics/semiconductor vendors, IP suppliers, developers, support staff, users and researchers better understand and apply the array of global standards for design data exchange formats, use models and methodologies, as well as tool development and customisation.
The event is an IEEE-SA Industry Connections activity. Through Industry Connections activities, IEEE-SA facilitates like-minded organisations and individuals coming together quickly, effectively and economically to build consensus at strategic points in a technology's lifecycle. Industry Connections activities have the unique opportunity to leverage IEEE resources in a customised format to produce a variety of shared results.
