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SNUG United Kingdom 

Hilton Reading Hotel 

Reading, UK 
24 May 2012


SNUG UK is your opportunity to learn, share and engage with your fellow Synopsys technology users. In addition to an exceptional technical program that will give you practical information you can apply to your current project or use to jump-start your next design, SNUG also offers plenty of opportunities to share experiences, network with other users and meet with Synopsys experts to learn about the newest products and preview future technology direction.

 

 
Please submit your proposal by 7 Feb 2012 to be considered for a SNUG presentation spot.


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Dates to Remember
    5 December 2011 Call for papers opens
     7 February 2012 Call for papers closes
    10 February 2012 Preliminary acceptance notification
    2 March 2012 Draft paper due
    19 March 2012 Final paper due
    23 March 2012 Final acceptance notification and presentation spots awarded
    2 April 2012 Draft slides due
    9 May 2012 Final slides due
    24 May 2012 SNUG UK 2012


SNUG UK
17 May 2011

Conference Schedule
Nearly 100 Synopsys users were in attendance at SNUG UK on 17 May 2011. Users valued this opportunity to exchange ideas with peers and product experts while attending the 29 technical papers that were presented across 5 separate technology tracks.


SNUG UK Proceedings
Check out the proceedings library to locate user papers or tutorials that contain solutions you can apply to your own design challenges.


1st Place - Best Paper Formal Verification and Validation of High-Level Optimizations of Arithmetic Datapath Blocks
Theo Drane [Imagination Technologies Ltd.], Himanshu Jain [Synopsys]
PaperPresentation


2nd Place - Best Paper Improving DFTMAX Compression Results in Latch Based Designs
Richard Illman [Dialog Semiconductor]
PaperPresentation


3rd Place - Best Paper Creation of an Embedded Temperature Sensor for Low Geometry Nodes using Custom Designer Mixed-Signal Design Flow
Stephen Crosher, Neil Roberts [Moortec Semiconductor]
PaperPresentation


Technical Committee Award Honorable Mention Techniques for Achieving High Test Quality using DFT Compiler/DFTMAX Compression and TetraMAX
Derya Rutten-Eker [ST-Ericsson]
PaperPresentation


Technical Committee Award AMS Verification with SystemVerilog
Graeme Nunn [Calvatec]
PaperPresentation


ProceedingsDownload 2011 proceedings
PAPERS (17 MB) PRESENTATIONS (13 MB) TUTORIALS (40 MB)

SNUG thanks the members of the Technical Committee who volunteer their time and expertise to ensure SNUG’s technical quality, local perspective and value to the users of Synopsys tools and technology.

User Technical Chairs
Frank Poppen, OFFIS Institute for Information Technology
SNUG Europe Technical Chair

Mike Bartley, Test and Verification Solutions Ltd
SNUG UK Technical Chair

Patrick Richier, ST-Ericsson
SNUG France Technical Chair

Members
Alessandro Valerio, STMicroelectronics
Alkiviadis Boulos, Jaguar & Land Rover
Claus Kuntzsch, Texas Instruments
Christophe Scarabello, Tiempo SAS
David Tester, Structured Custom Ltd.
Evagelia Diamantakou, Intracom
Franco Cesari, STMicroelectronics
Herbert Preuthen, LSI Corporation
Herbert Taucher, Siemens AG Austria
Jerome Bombal, Texas Instruments
Justin Mitchell, BBC
Karsten Matt, GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Laurent Besson, ST-Ericsson
Majid Ghameshlu, Siemens AG Austria
Marcus Sarnoch, Independent
Norbert Schuhmann, Fraunhofer Institute for IC
Paul Fugger, Infineon Technologies
Pierluigi Daglio, STMicroelectronics
Ralf Leuchter, Infineon Technologies AG
Richard Illman, Dialog Semiconductor
Shalom Bresticker, Intel
Stefano Pucillo, STMicroelectronics
Stuart Vernon, Imagination Technologies
Tiana Rahaga, EASII IC
Tobias Thiel, Freescale Semiconductor
Wolfgang Roessel, Alcatel