Now, more than ever before, there is a pressure in the electronics industry to shorten time to market, lower development costs, and offer product variations and options. To satisfy these requirements, the semiconductor industry continues to innovate in providing programmable solutions that can be rapidly adapted and deployed by their customers to their end users.

Dr. Burich will describe current and future promising technologies that satisfy these requirements, including the spectrum from fine-grained to coarse-grained multi-cores and rapidly customizable ASSP solutions.

Misha Burich Senior Vice President, Research and Development Altera

Dr. Burich joined Altera in December 2000 as senior vice president of software engineering, and in 2004 he also assumed the responsibility for system engineering. He currently manages R&D for all new FPGA architectures, software products, embedded processors, intellectual property libraries, and system solutions. Prior to joining Altera, Dr. Burich served as vice president of R&D at various EDA companies, including Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics, Silicon Compiler Systems, and Silicon Design Labs, which he co-founded in 1984. Dr. Burich began his career at Bell Laboratories in 1978.