SaaS EDA roundtable!

Harry Gries has announced what could be the first SaaS EDA roundtable. He had been discussing this for a while on his blog on how this new trend in IT could be leveraged for the EDA industry and to a sort of feasibilty analysis. This will be held at 2009 DVCon and below are the details.

The SaaS and Cloud Computing Roundtable will be held from 6:30 - 8:00 pm on Wed Feb 25th in the Monterey/Carmel rooms at the San Jose Doubletree Hotel. This is immediately following the DVCon reception down the hall, so grab a drink and a bite and then wander on over.

The format will consist of 5 brief (presentations from people involved in various perspectives in SaaS and cloud computing for EDA:

• Harry Gries (Design Methodology Consultant @ the ASIC guy)
• James Colgan (CEO @ Xuropa)
• Susan Peterson (Verification IP Marketing Manager @ Cadence)
• Jeremy Ralph (CEO @ PDTi)
• Bill Alexander (VP Marketing @ Blue Pearl Software)