Thursday, May 04, 2006
Eyewitnesses to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The title really says it all. This is one-in-a-million eye-witness testimony of two of the most powerful events of the previous century. With any luck this type of thing will never have to be witnessed again.
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750GB Seagate SATA Hard Drive Tested
Seagate really does have the Steve Austin of hard drives on their hands with the Barracuda 7200.10, as it really is better, stronger, faster. One thing the 6 Million Dollar Man didn't have going for him was being "bigger", which is obviously something the 7200.10 does have. At 750 GB it is the industry leader in size.
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Registration LIVE! SNUG India 2006, May 25-26, 2006 @ The Leela Palace, Bangalore
Dear VLSI Professional,
Synopsys, India is proud to announce its Seventh Annual Synopsys Users Group (SNUG) Conference at the Leela Palace, Bangalore, India on the 25th and 26th of May, 2006.
SNUG is more than just a conference. SNUG is an open forum that provides Synopsys users the opportunity to exchange ideas, discuss problems and explore solutions. Synopsys users develop the highly technical program with an emphasis on customer issues.
SNUG India 2006 is a two-day Conference comprising User Sessions and Tutorials.
Sponsors:
Platinum: ARM Limited and TSMC.
Gold: AMD Limited
Brief Agenda:
Day One: Thursday, May 25, 2006 (Venue: Grand Ballroom, The Leela Palace, Bangalore)
For more details, please visit: http://www.snug-universal.org/asia/asia_india.htm
Register Online At: http://eventreg.synopsys.com
07:45 AM - 09:15 AM Registration and Breakfast
09:15 AM - 10:15 AM Keynote Address: Aart de Geus, Chairman of Board & CEO, Synopsys, Inc.
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Designing Winning Products – Customer keynote address, Nagendra Cherukupalli, VP of Asia Pacific Design Centers & Chip Integration, Cypress India
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM Corporate Sponsor Presentation – ‘Systems to Silicon – A Collaborative Approach’, Keith Clarke, VP Technical Marketing, ARM, Cambridge, U.K.
11.45 AM – 05.30 PM Users presentations (BREAK-AWAY SESSIONS)
05.30 PM – 06.30 PM Panel Discussion on "Low Power Design - Is it Mainstream or Just for Survival at 65-nm " moderated by Marco Casale-Rossi, Product Marketing Manager, Galaxy Implementation Group, Synopsys, Inc.
06.30 PM – 06.45 PM Best Paper Awards and other announcements
06.45 PM onwards Entertainment, Cocktails and Dinner
Day Two: Friday, May 26, 2006
For more details, please visit: http://www.snug-universal.org/asia/asia_india.htm
Register Online At: http://eventreg.synopsys.com
TUTORIALS: (Venue: Grand Ballroom, The Leela Palace, Bangalore)
08:00 AM - 09:15 AM Registration and Breakfast
09:15 AM - 10:15 AM TBD
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Discussion on “IC Compiler”
11.30 AM – 04.45 PM Tutorials on Synopsys Implementation Solution (BREAK-AWAY SESSIONS)
04.45 PM onwards Collection of survey form and distribution of door gifts
AND
VERIFICATION SEMINAR: (Venue Royal Ballroom, The Leela Palace, Bangalore)
For more details, please visit: www.synopsys.com/news/events/seminars/veri_sem.html
Register Online At: http://eventreg.synopsys.com
08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Registration and Breakfast
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM SystemVerilog Solution Update
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Architecting a Practical Verification Environment
12.00 PM – 01.00 PM Panel Discussion on “State-of-the-Art Verification Technologies” moderated by Mark Warren, Synopsys, Inc.
02.00 PM – 03.15 PM Tips for Building a Verification Environment
03.15 PM – 04.15 PM Best Practices of Functional Coverage
04.30 PM – 05.30 PM Practical Debugging of Designs and Assertions
05.30 PM – 06.30 PM Mixed-Signal Verification Techniques
06.30 PM onwards Collection of survey form and distribution of door gifts
How to Register ?
Ø Go to the Events Registration System (ERS): https://eventreg.synopsys.com
Ø If you have used the ERS before, enter your company email address and password and select
v “2006 SNUG India” for SNUG and
v “2006 Synopsys Seminar” and select “Practical Verification with SystemVerilog” for VERIFICATION SEMINAR
from the event pull-down menu (NOTE: If you have forgotten your password, enter your company email address into the “Forgot Password” box and click on the “Submit” button and a new password will be emailed to you. If you have never used the ERS, enter your company email address into the “New User” box and click on the “Submit” button and a password will be emailed to you)
Ø Click on the “Login” button
Ø Once you are logged in, enter your user information (if you have registered for an event in the past using the ERS, your information will automatically be displayed)
Ø Click on the “Add Session” button located on the left-hand side menu
Ø Click on the folder icon next to “Thu: May 26m 11:45am – 12:15pm”
Ø Click on the icon next to the Track name that you want to register for
Ø Continue this process with the remaining timeslots, choosing one Track selection for each timeslot
Ø Click on the “Save Schedule” button
Ø Click on the “Email My Schedule” button located at the bottom of the screen
If you need any further information, please feel free to write to snugindia@synopsys.com or
call Ms.Sunitha at +91-80-40188373.
We look forward to seeing you at SNUG India 2006!
Best regards,
Synopsys, India
Study: Market For MP3 Players To Double By 2010!
Market research firm In-Stat expects demand for Flash- and hard drive-based MP3 players will more than double in the next four years. The company said in a recent report that shipments would jump from 140 million units in 2005 to 286 million by 2010!
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Intel Asks Judge To Throw Out AMD Case!
Intel filed a motion Wednesday asking a federal court judge to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit brought by its archrival, AMD!
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A little info on how Blue Security DDOSed TypePad and LiveJournal
It turns out that the people behind Blue Security (the shady email spam fighters) took the step that led to the DDOS against Six Apart's network last night, and took TypePad and LiveJournal off the net as a result.
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Mobile Office Concept
The new innovation will allow companeis to save $ as they can deploy their mobile office at prime locations without having to rent expensive rooms. James is proposing that by using the built-in GPS system, his futuristic mobile office will allow consultants to agree GPS co-ordinates with clients, so that they can meet at the new office.
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Dvorak: Eight signs that Microsoft is dead in the water
There is virtually nothing exciting that is coming out of Microsoft. Sure, they will keep making money, but all of its attempts to enter other markets have failed. Vista and the new Office keep getting delayed and scaled back. Now the company is focusing all its energy on trying to attack Google.
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Scientific peer review of Intelligent Design
Trippy ajax (right click) search added to Wall Street Journal website
Try going to any article at wsj.com, selecting a word, and then right clicking (or ctrl-clicking on a mac). Pretty remarkable feature, especially for a mainstream news site.
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Stable Linux Kernel 2.6.16.13 Released
Linux Kernel 2.6.16.13 has been released. This release contains a single fix which might be important to some of you for an infinite loop in "NETFILTER: SCTP conntrack".
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State wants MySpace to raise minimum age to 18
Massachusetts Tuesday called on popular teen social networking Web site MySpace.com to strengthen protection of children against sexual predators, including raising the minimum age for users to 18 from 14.
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Motorola to buy BenQ R&D center
"Electronics maker Motorola Inc. said Tuesday it plans to acquire a research and development center in Denmark from mobile phone maker BenQ Corp."
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Vonage now offering free Europe calling
Calls to Italy, France, Spain, UK and Ireland are now free with the Vonage unlimited plans.
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