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CEDA Launches IEEE D&T Electronic Edition. Working in cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Press, the Council is pleased to announce the availability of IEEE Design & Test - Electronic Edition. The electronic edition is specially designed by QMAGS Publishers to be delivered to CEDA affiliates via the internet. The Electronic Edition is exact cover-to-cover copy of the printed magazine, in a QuVu format that fits the computer screen perfectly and does not require page manipulations. This compact and highly navigable form is delivered to you every two months for a subscription price of $19.95. This is half the price of the best member rate for subscription to regular D&T print issue. Click here for more information.

CEDA Hosts Dinner Reception, Distinguished Speaker Lecture at DAC. CEDA will host a reception and Distinguished Speaker Lecture during the 44th DAC on Monday, June 4, starting at 6 p.m. in the Sails Pavilion at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA. This networking event will include a presentation from C.-J. Richard Shi of the University of Washington and co-author of the IEEE Transactions on CAD Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award, titled "On symbolic model order reduction . It addresses the problem of reducing a large circuit that contains symbolic circuit parameters to smaller low order models at its ports. Click here to read the Business Wire article.

IC routing contest boosts CAD research. CEDA sponsored the International Symposium on Physical Design which was organized by IBM on March, 20. Many participants from academia and research institutions made the event succeful, showcasing new directions for research in IC routing algorithms. Click here to read the EE Times article.

Richard Newton, EDA Pioneer, passed away A. Richard Newton, professor and dean of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley passed away at 55 on January 2, 2007. Full article is available in UC Berkley News.

CAD researchers hear professional ethics warning. The discussion on professional ethics during the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design was successful and showed how various and ambiguous the "seeds" of unethical behavior are. Click here to read the EE Times article.