SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Sept. 19, 2006 - Sequence Design's Dr. Kyu-won "Ken" Choi, Senior Engineer and Technical Consultant, will be a featured speaker on low-power design during the ninth annual SAME 2006 Conference being held Oct. 4-5 in Sophia Antipolis, France.

Authored by Dr. Choi and Sequence's Jerry Frenkil, CTO, Vice President and General Manager, Silicon Business Unit, the paper is titled "VEDA: Vectorless Event-Driven Approach for Optimal Switch Sizing of Power-Gating Circuits to Reduce Two Orders of Magnitude of Leakage Power." It covers traditional approaches to switch sizing and presents a breakthrough methodology for automating and optimizing power gated designs. In addition, Dr. Choi will share benchmark results for the new approach demonstrating a near 90 percent reduction of power-switch size compared to current methods, without compromising speed, functionality, or runtime in 90nm designs.

Dr. Choi will present these findings on Thursday, Oct. 5, 3:15pm during the conference.

SAME (Sophia Antipolis forum on MicroElectronics), is an annual event at the cutting edge of microelectronic design technologies and has experienced constant growth each year since its creation, today attracting over 1,000 participants. The conference provides a venue for discussions and technical knowledge sharing, along with the opportunity to meet industrial and high-tech companies displaying and demonstrating microelectronic-related products. For more information: www.same-conference.org.

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Sequence Design accelerates the ability of SoC designers to bring high-performance, power-aware ICs quickly to market. Sequence's power and signal- integrity software solutions give customers the competitive advantage necessary to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite the demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer design. Sequence serves over 150 customers worldwide, in application segments such as consumer, wireless, mobile computing, multimedia, cell phones, digital cameras, network-on-chip processors, and other power-sensitive markets. The company was named by Reed Electronics as one of the top 10 companies to watch in the electronics industry, and was recently selected as one of high-tech's Top 100 companies by siliconindia magazine. Sequence has worldwide development and field-service operations and is privately held. Please see sequencedesign.com.