This section provides useful information for DesignCon faculty. Please check this area of the Web site often as it is updated regularly.

IEC Contacts Room Set-up On-Site Speaker Preparation Room Paper Deadline and Formatting Instructions Presentation Guidelines

Day of Presentation Session Format Registration and On-Site Check-In Speaker Substitutions Paper Award Information

IEC Contacts

Barry Sullivan Content Development Phone: +1-312-559-3302 Kate Lyons Speaking Opportunities Phone: +1-312-559-3326 klyons@iec.org Lynne Bobak Event Marketing Phone: +1-312-559-3862 Lbobak@iec.org

Katie Post Public Relations Phone: +1-312-559-3658 kpost@iec.org Christine Paplaczyk Exhibit and Sponsorship Opportunities Phone: +1-312-559-4616 Cpaplaczyk@iec.org Michelle Klein Exhibitor Marketing Phone: +1-312-559-3861 mklein@iec.org

Room Set-Up

Session rooms are equipped with the following:

• LCD projector
• Cabling
• Screen
• Microphone at speaker head table and podium
• Tent cards with names of speakers placed at speaker seating
• Head table for all speakers placed at the front of the room

If you have special AV needs in addition to those included in the standard room set-up, please contact Kate Lyons.

Please note: Laptop computers are not provided in the rooms.

On-Site Speaker Preparation Room

A dedicated speaker preparation room will be available to all speakers. Speakers are welcome to use this room for on-site preparation meetings with their fellow authors or panelists.

Paper Deadline and Formatting Instructions

The deadline for papers is Friday, November 20th.

Papers should be prepared using the following formatting guidelines and sent to Kate Lyons.

Download Formatting Guidelines

Presentation Guidelines

The following are some helpful tips in regards to producing your presentation:

• Presentations are to be noncommercial
• The IEC does not have a PowerPoint template; feel free to use your own
• Avoid too much content on one slide as attendee feedback as voiced negative comments with regards to this.
• Keep in mind that presentations are meant to provide the same information contained in the paper itself but in a condensed and visually acceptable format.

Day of Presentation

The day of your presentation, please bring your laptop computer, as laptops are not provided in session rooms. For sessions with multiple speakers, we suggest loading all presentations on one laptop for easy transition from one speaker to the next.

Session Format

Paper sessions are 40 minutes long. Speakers should prepare 30-minute presentations leaving 10 minutes for questions and discussion.

The Monday tutorial sessions are 3 hours long. Speakers should plan for a 10-minute break half way through the session.

Registration and On-Site Check-In

Pre-Show Registration: Speaker and authors for DesignCon 2010 should register on-line to receive complimentary registration for the full four-day program.

On-Site Check-In: Once you arrive at the Santa Clara Convention Center, speakers are asked to check in at the DesignCon registration desk to collect your name badge and conference credentials.

Speaker Substitutions

Inform IEC staff Kate Lyons and/or Barry Sullivan of any speaker substitutions.

If substitutions arise at the event, go to an Advance Registration counter and let the staff member attending the desk know who you are replacing.

Paper Award Information

DesignCon Paper Awards recognize outstanding contributions to the education goals of the DesignCon program. Papers are judged both on the merits of the written document and on the quality of the presentation at DesignCon events.

The awards serve to acknowledge the authors who receive them as leading practitioners in semiconductor and electronic design. The awards also provide incentive to authors to produce high-quality DesignCon papers and present them in a lucid and compelling manner.

Paper Review

The first step of the selection process is a review of the full-length papers accepted for the DesignCon 2010 technical program. Members of the DesignCon 2010 Technical Program Committee receive the full-length papers for the tracks they reviewed. They provide their choices for the top papers in the track to Barry Sullivan, DesignCon Program Director. Finalists for each track are selected based on the votes from the reviewers.

Papers are judged along the following dimensions, listed in order of importance:

1. Quality — An award-quality paper should be well organized and easily understood. This is a straightforward area to judge, especially on a relative basis.
2. Relevance — The paper should be highly relevant to the interests of the DesignCon audience and the track topic in particular.
3. Impact — Award papers should make a substantial contribution to the educational mission of DesignCon. Papers reporting on important results, methodologies, or case studies of special significance should be recognized.
4. Originality — This area requires special note. Keeping in mind the goal of providing a high-quality educational program for practicing engineers, it is easy to see that a report on a new design methodology or a case study for an innovative design has great educational value. However, an outstanding paper on a "classical" topic can be an award candidate, and papers of this sort should also be viewed favorably.
5. Commercial content — Another area deserving special mention. It is acceptable to use a product in a design case study or as a proof of concept for a design methodology, and many of the papers the DesignCon audience views most favorably do just that. However, we also know that the audience responds most negatively to anything that comes across as a product pitch. A good case study that uses a real product in an appropriate manner to demonstrate feasibility or illustrate a concept should be considered favorably.

Judging Presentations

Effective presentations add significantly to the educational value of the DesignCon technical program. While selection as a finalist for a DesignCon Paper Award is a notable achievement in itself, award winners will be chosen from among the finalists based on the quality of their presentations. The same dimensions for evaluation of the written papers—quality, relevance, originality, and commercial content—apply here as well, although quality will be the primary criterion. Judges are recruited from the DesignCon 2010 Technical Program Committee to ensure adequate coverage of the award areas listed above.