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


(right)
James F. Bell III, Cornell University Dept. of Astronomy, gave insights into NASA´s Mars program at the ASIC´98 Banquet Dinner
Here are some impressions from speeches held during previous conferences,
and a list of all distinguished speakers from 1990-1999:

