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Agilent Technologies  

Agilent delivers technologies, solutions, and services to a wide range of customers in communications, electronics, life sciences, and chemical analysis. It offers solutions across its customers' entire product life cycle from research and development to manufacturing, to installation and management.

Partner-Level Sponsor
Rambus  

Rambus Inc. provides chip and system companies with chip-to-chip interface solutions that enable higher performance and system bandwidth for a broad range of consumer electronic, computing, and networking applications. Rambus interface solutions provide the connection from chip-to-chip, system-to-system, and person-to-person.

Diamond-Level Sponsor
Lecroy  

LeCroy Corporation is a worldwide leader in serial data test solutions, creating advanced instruments that drive product innovation by quickly measuring, analyzing, and verifying complex electronic signals. The Company offers high-performance oscilloscopes, serial data analyzers, and global communications protocol test solutions used by design engineers in the computer and semiconductor, data storage device, automotive and industrial, and military and aerospace markets. LeCroy’s 40-year heritage of technical innovation is the foundation for its recognized leadership in “WaveShape Analysis”—capturing, viewing, and measuring the high-speed signals that drive today's information and communications technologies.

LeCroy is headquartered in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Company information is available at http://www.lecroy.com.

Tektronix  

Tektronix is a leading supplier of test, measurement, and monitoring products, solutions and services for the communications, computer, and semiconductor industries — as well as military/aerospace, consumer electronics, education and a broad range of other industries worldwide. With 60 years of experience, Tektronix enables its customers to design, build, deploy, and manage next-generation global communications networks, advanced and pervasive technologies.

Gold-Level Sponsor
BERTScope  

BERTScope™ is a registered trademark of SyntheSys Research, Inc., a privately held California corporation founded in 1989 with the mission to develop advanced test instruments for high-speed serial data communications. The BERTScope offers the vision of a scope and the confidence of a BERT. The new BERTScope CR clock recovery instrument pairs with the BERTScope analyzer for complete jitter compliance testing. For further information, call (650) 364-1853 or visit our website www.BERTScope.com.

Merchandise Sponsors
BERTScope  

BERTScope™ is a registered trademark of SyntheSys Research, Inc., a privately held California corporation founded in 1989 with the mission to develop advanced test instruments for high-speed serial data communications. The BERTScope offers the vision of a scope and the confidence of a BERT. The new BERTScope CR clock recovery instrument pairs with the BERTScope analyzer for complete jitter compliance testing. For further information, call (650) 364-1853 or visit our website www.BERTScope.com.

CST  

CST - Computer Simulation Technology develops and markets software tools for the simulation of electromagnetic fields in all frequency bands. The simulators CST MICROWAVE STUDIO®, CST DESIGN STUDIOTM, CST EM STUDIOTM and MAFIA 4 have benefited from over 20 years experience in the area of numerical field calculation, and are used worldwide by market leaders such as Lucent, Nokia, Raytheon, RFS, Siemens, and Sony. CST markets its products worldwide through a network of distribution and support centers which also provide comprehensive customer support and training.

Sigrity  

Sigrity provides power and signal integrity analysis tools for integrated circuits (ICs), IC packages, and printed circuit boards (PCBs). Its breakthrough software solutions, based on patented and proprietary technologies, help companies overcome design challenges associated with ever-increasing circuit speed.

Hospitality Sponsor
Ansoft  

Ansoft, the leading provider of circuit-, system-, and component-level EM simulation software for high-performance RF design, delivers 10X improvements in RF design complexity and design time with the newly released HFSS v10 and Nexxim v3 in a dynamically linked Ansoft Designer environment. HFSS v10 features distributed computing, fault-tolerant geometry processing, and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3. Nexxim v3 adds phase noise and time-varying noise analysis, oscillator analysis, native support for Cadence Spectre, model encryption, and load-pull analysis. Ansoft Designer v3 includes a new dynamic link with HFSS and script-based DRC checking.

DesignTOUR Sponsors
Agilent  

Agilent delivers technologies, solutions, and services to a wide range of customers in communications, electronics, life sciences, and chemical analysis. It offers solutions across its customers' entire product life cycle from research and development to manufacturing, to installation and management.

BERTScope  

BERTScope™ is a registered trademark of SyntheSys Research, Inc., a privately held California corporation founded in 1989 with the mission to develop advanced test instruments for high-speed serial data communications. The BERTScope offers the vision of a scope and the confidence of a BERT. The new BERTScope CR clock recovery instrument pairs with the BERTScope analyzer for complete jitter compliance testing. For further information, call (650) 364-1853 or visit our website www.BERTScope.com.

Lecroy  

LeCroy Corporation is a worldwide leader in serial data test solutions, creating advanced instruments that drive product innovation by quickly measuring, analyzing, and verifying complex electronic signals. The Company offers high-performance oscilloscopes, serial data analyzers, and global communications protocol test solutions used by design engineers in the computer and semiconductor, data storage device, automotive and industrial, and military and aerospace markets. LeCroy’s 40-year heritage of technical innovation is the foundation for its recognized leadership in “WaveShape Analysis”—capturing, viewing, and measuring the high-speed signals that drive today's information and communications technologies.
LeCroy is headquartered in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Company information is available at http://www.lecroy.com.

Molex  

Molex is a global manufacturer of interconnect solutions for a variety of industries including datacom and telecommunications. Building on 68 years of expertise, Molex invests significantly in R&D to develop and manufacture products that offer reliable, cost-effective solutions. A full range of products include I/O, power, microminiature, integrated product, socket and thermal acoustic solutions. At DesignCon 2007, Molex is showcasing the low-cost, high-performance I-Trac-TM- Backplane Connector System. For information, please visit Molex at Booth 301.I-Trac™ is a trademark of Molex Incorporated.

Mosaid  

MOSAID is a leading provider of analog and mixed signal semiconductor IP designed for the world's leading foundries and for leading-edge sub-micron processes. MOSAID counts some of the world's leading semiconductor companies among its customer set. Key products include: the highest performance DDR2 memory controller products available today; the industry's first delta-sigma fractional-N PLL for CMOS; and a complete suite of high performance, low leakage and low power SRAMs, I/Os and libraries.

Rambus  

Rambus Inc. provides chip and system companies with chip-to-chip interface solutions that enable higher performance and system bandwidth for a broad range of consumer electronic, computing, and networking applications. Rambus interface solutions provide the connection from chip-to-chip, system-to-system, and person-to-person.

Samtec  

Samtec manufactures Board-to-Board, Cable-to-Board, Panel-to-Board, and Panel-to-Panel interfaces. Worldwide revenue in 2005 was over $265 million. Samtec is an ISO-14001 and TS-16949 certified company. Samtec provides "Sudden Service" with High Speed, High Density, RF, I/O, Micro, Rugged, and Power connectors and cable assemblies, one to three day lead times, our Signal Integrity Group, and our Sudden Information web site. Samtec has 17 locations worldwide to serve you.

Tektronix  

Tektronix is a leading supplier of test, measurement, and monitoring products, solutions and services for the communications, computer, and semiconductor industries — as well as military/aerospace, consumer electronics, education and a broad range of other industries worldwide. With 60 years of experience, Tektronix enables its customers to design, build, deploy, and manage next-generation global communications networks, advanced and pervasive technologies.

Official Media Sponsor
Reed Electronics Group  

Reed Electronics Group is the electronics industry's largest global information provider, making information work for both buyers and sellers around the world. Reed Electronics Group is the only industry resource structured to meet the information needs of the global electronics product development process-all the way from need identification through research, concept development, design development, purchasing, and manufacturing and test to distribution.

In addition to providing electronics industry engineers and managers with critical market information, Reed's global sales and marketing team works closely with electronics industry marketers to develop personalized and unique integrated marketing solutions. Reed Electronics Group helps its customers identify, target, and communicate with their key audiences on a global, regional, or local basis, and take full advantage of its worldwide network of database, publishing, electronic/Web, research, and event development resources. For more information, visit www.reed-electronics.com.

Official News Service Sponsor
Business Wire  

Business Wire is the leading source for full-text breaking news releases, multimedia and regulatory filings for companies and groups throughout the world. http://home.businesswire.com

Virtual Press Office  

Virtual Press Office is a leading on-line news management company offering innovative services to facilitate the communications process between high-tech firms and the media. Information is centralized under one roof to ensure that journalists, analysts, and industry consultants have the fastest and easiest access to the latest press releases, company backgrounders, white papers, and graphics from the world's premier high-tech companies. In addition to accessing thousands of new press releases posted to the virtualpressoffice.com Web site each day, VPO members may customize an e-mail delivery service to meet specific news-gathering requirements. Documents are retrieved either via standard industry categories or personalized keyword searches and delivered straight to the inbox at regular intervals.

Official Public Relations Sponsor
Cayenne Communications  

Cayenne Communications is a consulting company specializing in strategic, integrated corporate and marketing communications for emerging technology companies. For more information, see www.cayennecom.com.

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Associate Sponsor
Anita Borg Institute for Women & Technology  

The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) is changing the world for women and technology. ABI believes that involving women in technology — how it is taught, learned, created and used — benefits everyone. ABI provides resources and programs to help industry, academia and government recruit, retain and develop women leaders in high technology careers. By providing numerous platforms that ensure women's voices, ideas and spirits to influence technology ABI delivers programs that are changing the world for women and for technology. For more information visit www.anitaborg.org

Anita Borg Institute for Women & Technology  

The mission of Ethernet Alliance is to promote industry awareness, acceptance, and advancement of technology and products based on existing and emerging IEEE 802 Ethernet standards and their management. Ethernet Alliance will provide resources to establish and demonstrate multivendor interoperability of IEEE 802 Ethernet products and their management. The Alliance is open to all constituencies and stakeholders of IEEE 802 Ethernet. For IT professionals, Ethernet Alliance members work toward equipment interoperability across vendors. Component and system vendors gain efficient product development and decreased time to market. To learn more about the benefits of membership and what it means to be a member of Ethernet Alliance, visit www.ethernetalliance.org.

IBIS  

The IBIS Open Forum is the industry organization responsible for the management of the IBIS specification. The Open Forum meets every three weeks by teleconference. Membership is open to all interested companies. The Open Forum also holds IBIS summits several times per year around the world, to give its members an opportunity to meet face-to-face and exchange technical information and elect officers. Summit announcements and presentations are posted on IBIS's Web site; summit activities are also financed through member dues and sponsorships. For more information, visit www.eigroup.org/IBIS.

Meptec  

MEPTEC (Microelectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council) is a trade association of over 600 semiconductor suppliers, manufacturers and individuals committed to enhancing the competitiveness of the back-end portion of the semiconductor business. MEPTEC is concerned exclusively with assembly, packaging and test issues and is dedicated to the advancement of that segment of the industry. For more information visit www.meptec.org.

SI2  

Si2 is a not-for-profit organization of industry-leading semiconductor and EDA tool companies focused on improving productivity and reducing cost in creating and producing integrated silicon systems. We believe that through collaborative efforts, the industry can achieve higher levels of systems-on-silicon integration while reducing the cost and complexity of integrating future design systems. Si2 represents members throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information visit www.si2.org.

VSI Alliance  

The VSI Alliance (VSIA) is an open, international organization that includes representatives from all segments of the SoC industry: System houses, Semiconductor vendors, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) companies, and Intellectual Property (IP) providers. VSIA's mission is to dramatically enhance the productivity of the SoC design community by providing leading-edge commercial and technical solutions and insight into the development, integration, and reuse of IP. For more information, visit the VSIA web site at www.vsi.org or email to info@vsi.org

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