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A very successful CDNLive! EMEA 2008 user conference took place from 28th to 30th April in Munich, Germany. Customers from over 200 European and international companies spent two and a half days participating in user presentations, Cadence roadmaps, demos and techtorials and visiting partners in the EDA ecosystem at the Designer Expo.

The conference opened its doors on Monday 28th April with six techtorials taking place in the afternoon covering topics on:

• Custom Design: presentation and discussion of advanced techniques in custom IC design for users of the Virtuoso platform
• Digital Implementation: get ready to design at advanced node
• Advanced Verification and System Design / Verification: mixed-language Open Verification Methodology - OVM
• Silicon-Package-Board Co-Design (Allegro/OrCAD): implementing design rules in a constraint driven design flow
• Logic Design: how to address today's logic design challenges? — Design with Physical
• Design For Manufacturing: manufacturing-aware design methodology to address systematic and parametric variations

During the breaks and evening networking event, attendees had the opportunity to visit the Designer Expo and meet with Cadence partners across the electronics industry.

Cadence President and CEO Mike Fister started the second day with a keynote discussing aspects of the Advanced Node campaign, in which Cadence solutions enable customers to complete the latest designs on deadline at 65nm and below.

The guest keynote was an interview with Prof. Dr. Mario Theissen, BMW Motorsport Director, in which he described the latest technology going into the BMW Sauber Formula 1 race car and talked about the collaboration between Cadence and BMW.

During the keynote session, Mike Fister also took the opportunity to congratulate the winner of the European Electronic Design Contest for Students. The first prize in the undergraduate category went to Lukasz Kotynia from Technical University of Lodz, Poland, and in the PhD team Joachim Becker and Fabian Henrici from Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, were recognized for their excellence. The competition was launched at last year's CDNLive! EMEA user conference.

The rest of the morning and early afternoon consisted of a multitude of customer and Cadence presentations in six Technical Tracks on Custom Design, Digital Implementation, Advanced Verification and System Design / Verification, Silicon-Package-Board Co-Design (Allegro/OrCAD), Logic Design and a Special Interest Track.

During the afternoon Cadence Technology Demonstrations of the latest Cadence products, flows, and methodologies were shown in each of the tracks.

Executive and press attendees attended the Executive Track and the Press Track.

The day concluded with a party in the BMW Pavilion in the Munich city centre with live music and some exciting PC racing games.

On the last day of the conference more customer presentations were presented in the six technical tracks and the best paper presentation of each track, as voted by the conference attendees, were awarded a prize by Wolfgang Stronski, Field Marketing Director EMEA.

Conference Proceedings are now available for download. Use your Cadence.com user account to login.