A New Name: ‘Si2Con’ Arrives October 20th!

Si2 is also ramping up a brand new effort to define standards for 3D / 2.5D design of stacked die (Open3D), and this event will be an excellent opportunity to meet with Si2 and members who will be present to find out more about it.

The detailed agenda is located here: http://www.si2.org/?page=1489
To register on-line: https://www.si2.org/openeda.si2.org/si2_store/index.php#c1
or a fax/mail form: http://www.si2.org/?page=1254

Back in the early 2000’s, Si2 began hosting workshops around the new OpenAccess vision and technology with the goal of helping advance OpenAccess adoption through sharing of requirements, experiences, technical knowledge, and broadening the interest and participation in it’s guidance and development as a true community effort. These workshops grew into the “OpenAccess Conference”, which was successful – so much so that Si2 doubled them to twice per year during the helter-skelter years of rapid changes and initial adoptions around the industry.

Once Si2 proved to be good stewards of OpenAccess, members brought them into an emerging area of need with the DFM Coalition, which was also covered in a parallel track at the OpenAccess Conference. A similar pattern repeated itself with the Open Modeling Coalition and Low Power Coalition as well. By the time Si2 began covering progress from the LPC in 2006, they began expanding the name slightly to “OpenAccess+ Conference”. Last year, they hinted at the broader scope of coverage with the name “Si2/OpenAccess+ Conference” to get industry used to associating the long-familiar “OA Conference” with this broader name. All of these were interim, incremental transitions in brand management toward the final “Si2 Conference” name to reflect the full scope of coverage.

Why does Si2 pull together this annual conference? It’s very simple: the non-profit mission is to promote interoperability, improve efficiency, and reduce costs through enabling standards technologies – and these technologies are only valuable to the extent they are broadly adopted and used. That means bringing the right experts together on a topic to share technical challenges, educate industry peers on these new solutions, and share adoption experiences.

Enthusiastic attendees say that one of the main benefits is networking with same-domain technical peers, listening to a wide variety of presenters that take a “flow” perspective as they do, and ability to see live demos of interoperability progress in action.

As always, a FREE LUNCH will be provided, sponsored by Cadence Design Systems and a Demo/Networking Reception sponsored by NanGate.