The event takes place at the Holiday Inn in San Jose.

The program includes the following focus areas:

• Co-Design Solutions -- Bridging the Gap from Silicon to System: This session will focus on the challenges and design gaps that system and EDA tool suppliers face, especially with the increase in new wireless technologies.
• Ensuring Quality and Reliability in the Design Process: This session will discuss resources and best-practices and challenges and solutions to ensure quality and reliability in the design process for tomorrow's products and markets.
• Disruptive Design Solutions: This session will explore some of the best design practices and emerging standards in disruptive technologies used to minimize both time and costs in qualifying a final product.
• Panel Discussion -- Navigating the Design IP Minefield: This session will highlight some of the significant package and substrate IP families and the efforts of organizations such as JEDEC (EIA) and the US government to resolve some of the perceived inequities in the IP system.

For more information, contact Bette Cooper at 650-714-1570 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit MEPTEC at meptec.org.