SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 19, 2012) - Tom Beckley, senior vice president of Research and Development, Custom IC and Signoff, Silicon Realization Group at [ Cadence Design Systems ], Inc, (NASDAQ: [ CDNS ]), will deliver a keynote on advanced node chip design at the International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). In addition, Cadence engineers will participate in two paper presentations at the conference.

WHEN: March 19 to March 21

WHERE: Techmart Center, Santa Clara, Calif.

WHAT: Beckley, who leads R&D for Cadence custom IC and signoff technology, will deliver a keynote on, "Taming the Challenges in Advanced Node Design" at 8:15 a.m. March 20.

At 2:30 p.m. March 20, Cadence will join representatives of the IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center to deliver a paper titled, "Understanding, Modeling, and Detecting Pooling Hotspots in Copper CMP."

At 5:30 p.m. March 20, Sachin Shrivastava and Harindranath Parameswaran from Cadence will deliver a paper titled, "Efficient Reduction Techniques for Statistical Model Generation of Standard Cells."

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