Synopsys users gather for European SNUG meetings

Synopsys user group (SNUG) meetings will be held in three European venues later this month.

The user meetings will kick off in Munich on Tuesday 14 May with a wide range of conference sessions, covering, among other things, front and back-end implementation issues, systems design, verification (both digital and analog and mixed-signal) and ‘vision’ sessions addressing emerging topics.

Among the user presentations are sessions on overcoming lithographic issues in GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 20nm reference flow, and a separate session covering the impact of double patterning on parasitic extraction, also from GLOBALFOUNDRIES. A team from Intel Mobile Communications will talk about choosing and validating high speed interface IP, while a presentation from STMicroelectronics on reducing IR drop and electromigration effects in full-custom analog designs.

SNUG arrives in Reading on Thursday 16 May, with a slightly different mix of sessions, and user presentations from companies such as ARM, on power gating in high-performance mobile SoCs, and CSR, on full-custom layout automation.

The SNUG European meeting series then takes a short break until after DAC, returning to Grenoble on Tuesday 11 June, moving on to Herzelia in Israel on Tuesday 18 June.