1999

Keynote:

Wilfred J. Corrigan

Chairman and CEO, LSI Logic Corporation

"System-on-a-chip in the Internet Economy"

Plenary:

James D. Meindl

Director, Microelectronics Research Center,
Georgia Institute of Technology

"Opportunities and Persistent Limits on a GSI System-on-a-Chip"

Plenary:

Yervant Zorian

Chief Technology Advisor, LogicVision, Inc.

"System-on-Chip Test Strategies"

Plenary:

Kensall D. Wise

Director, Center for Integrated Microsystems,
University of Michigan

"INTEGRATED MICROSYSTEMS:  Merging MEMS, Micropower Electronics, and Wireless Communications"

Banquet:

Leon Chua

Director of Nonlinear Electronics Laboratory,
University of California, Berkeley

"Nanostructures and Cellular Neural Networks"

Luncheon:

Juri Matisoo
and
Ram Krishnamurthy

Vice President of Technology, Silicon Industry Association

Intel Corp.

"SIA’s International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors"

1998

Keynote:

Raul Camposano

Chief Technical Officer, Senior Vice President & General Manager Design Tools, Sysopsys Inc.

"Design Technology for System on a Chip"

Luncheon:

Vic Kulkarni

Head of Library Business Unit, Avant! Corporation

"Silicon Intellectual Property:
The Passport to System-on-a-Chip"

Banquet:

James F. Bell III

Cornell University Dept. of Astronomy

"NASA Mars Rovers and Orbiters:
Imaging the Geologic History of the Red Planet"

1997

Keynote:

Eli Harari

President & CEO, SanDisk Corporation

"Flash Memory-the Universal Digital Storage Medium for the Coming Age of Consumer Electronics"

Luncheon:

Levy Gerzberg

President & CEO, Zoran Corp.

"Entrepreneurship in the U.S."

Banquet:

John Tanner

President & CEO, Tanner Research Inc.

"The Future of EDA: An Alternative View"

1996

Keynote:

Walter Davis

Senior Vice President and Director of Strategic Semiconductor Operations for the Messaging Systems Products Group, Motorola, Inc

"The Role of VLSI in Wireless Communication"

Luncheon:

Charles (Bob) Hewes

Texas Instruments

"Entrepreneurship in the U.S."

Banquet:

Irwin Federman

Senior Partner, US Venture Partners

"Venture Capital Perspectives on the Information Technology Revolution"

1995

Keynote:

Peng H. Ang

Vice President and General Manager Consumer Products Division, LSI Logic Corporation

"ASIC Technology: The Driving force behind the Information Superhighway"

Luncheon:

David M. Williams

Director of Home Media Lab, Intel

"The Soul of a New Medium - Musings on the Information Superhighway"

Banquet:

Brad Cox

George Mason University

"Taming the Electronic Frontier"

1994

Keynote:

Ron Smith

General Manager PCI Components Division, Intel Corporation

"Performance Issues for PCs in the Consumer Market"

Luncheon:

Arpad G. Toth

Imaging Research Laboratories, Eastman Kodak

"Image Enabled Multimedia Communications"

Banquet:

Robert A. Pease

National Semiconductor

"What's All This Feedback Stuff?"

1993

Keynote:

Aart J. de Geus

President, Synopsys, Inc.

"One Million Gate ASIC? Not with Present EDA Tools and Methodology!"

Luncheon:

Richard S. Wolff

Director, Personal Communications Applications Research, Bellcore

"Personal Communications Applications: New Opportinities and Challenges for ASIC Designers"

Banquet:

V. Michael Bove, Jr.

MIT Media Laboratory

"Hardware and Software Implications of Representing Scenes as Data"

1992

Keynote:

Hal Alles

Chief Architect, Mentor Graphics Corp.

"ICs and ASICs at Thirty-Something"

Keynote:

S. Samuel Liu

President, Silicon Integrated Systems Corp., Taiwan R.O.C.

"ASICs in the 90's -- an Asia Pacific Perspective"

Luncheon:

Michael J. Barry

CD Imaging Development, Eastman Kodak Company

"The Photo CD Imaging System"

Banquet:

Bruce R. Bourbon

President and CEO, Vertex Semiconductor Corp, a Toshiba Subsidiary

"The Design Gap"

Keynote:

Frederick T. Tucker

Senior Vice President, General Manager Automotive and Industrial Group, Motorola Inc.

"ASICs in the Automotive Industry"

Keynote:

Tommy Ng

General Manager of ICCAD Advanced Design Automation, Mentor Graphics Corp.

"Design Methodology in High Complexity ASIC Design"

Keynote:

Douglas B. Boyle

Director, Hardware Engineering, Sun Microsystems Engineering

"CAD Requirements for High-Volume, High Performance, Low Cost Designs"

Luncheon:

Bruce McWilliams

Senior Vice President, Chief Technical Officer, nCHIP, Inc.

"Multichip Modules Today and Tomorrow"

Banquet:

David G. Richardson

Vice President, Integrated Components, Northern Telecom Electronics, Ontario, Canada

"ASICs and High Performance Telecommunication Systems"

1990

Keynote:

Rajinder Khosla

Director, Microelectronics Technology Division Research Labs, Eastman Kodak

"System Integration using ASICs in the 90's"

Keynote:

Robert Walker

Vice President, Technical Marketing, LSI Logic Corp.

"ASIC Tests in the Nineties"

Keynote:

James A. Rowson

Fellow, VLSI Technology Inc.

"1990's ASIC CAD: Getting the System Right"

Keynote:

Robert B. Johnson

Vice President, ASIC Division, National Semiconductor Corp.

Luncheon:

Walter Kleinfelder

Senior Research Manager, IBM Watson Research Center

"Research Parallel Processor Prototype"

Banquet:

Charles P. Holt

Vice President, Systems Reprographic Development Unit, Xerox Corp.

"The Document Processing Explosion of the 90s"

1991

"Single Vendor Solution"

List of Distinguished Speakers 1990-1999:

Jim Meindl and Wilf Corrigan

James Meindl, Director, Microelectronics Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Wilfred Corrigan, Chairman and CEO, LSI Logic Corp. are discussing the future of System-on-Chip design with an ASIC/SOC´99 attendee.

Wilfred Corrigan, Chairman and CEO, LSI Logic Corp., during his keynote address at ASIC/SOC´99

Keynote 98
Raul Camposano

(above and right)
Raul Camposano, Chief Technical Officer, Senior Vice President & General Manager Design Tools, Sysopsys Inc. held the keynote speech at ASIC´98

Banquet 99
Sojourner

(right)
James F. Bell III,
Cornell University Dept. of Astronomy, gave insights into NASA´s Mars program at the ASIC´98 Banquet Dinner

Keynote 99
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Here are some impressions from speeches held during previous conferences,
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list of all distinguished speakers from 1990-1999:

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