UK Design Forum 2003: Report and Presentations

University of Manchester Chancellors Conference Centre

March 31st and April 1st 2003

Secretary and Local Organiser: Hilary Kahn

The UK Design Forum 2003 was attended by 49 people. This year two invited speakers provided contrasting presentations. John Vernon took From Valves to VLSI as his theme and provided an amusing after-dinner reminder of the challenges we face in design. First thing the next morning, Bill Eccleston gave a fascinating overview of polymer electronics - a topic which seems to involve more chemistry than most designers can recall.

The Grand Challenge topic was the cause of much discussion, scheduled and unscheduled throughout the Workshop.

The goal of the Grand Challenge is to provide the focus for leading edge, innovative electronic design research involving academia and industry.

If you are interested in finding out more about this, feel free to contact Hilary Kahn, Steve Beaumont, John Gaitanos, David Rees or Julie Stockwin.

Note: Copies of the slides and posters are available in PDF

Monday March 31st 2003
20.30 – 21.00	After Dinner Speaker
	John Vernon	From Valves to VLSI

Tuesday April 1st 2003
09.00 – 09.30	Invited Speaker
	Bill Eccleston	Polymer Electronics: a rapidly growing market

09.30 – 11.15	The Grand Challenge	Session Chair: Andrew Brown
Speakers	Steve Furber	Chips for Everything: Britain’s opportunities in a key global market
	David Rees	The Grand Challenge: An Investment Magnet for SOC design
	Julie Stockwin	NMI's role
	Susan Morrell	EPSRC Role: ICT Programme

11.45 – 13.00	Issues for SMEs	Session Chair: Ted Pritchard
Speakers	Chris McArdle	Design needs of SME companies: Is China getting it right?
	David Topham	Action for Analogue
	Paul Wells	The case for outsourcing of silicon engineering

Grand Challenge Discussion (continued)	Steve Beaumont	Scope of the Challenge
14.15 – 15.30	Verification, Validation and Test	Session Chair: Hilton Kirk
Speakers	Kamal Hashmi	System Level Verification
	Mark Josephs	Verification of Asynchronous Circuits
	Bashir Al-Hashimi	Low-cost test for System-on-Chip

16.00 – 16.40	Collaborations	Session Chair: Susan Morrell
Speakers	Tim Reynoldson	DTI: An Overview of the Changes being made to Business Support
	Andy Carpenter	Disseminating the Results of UK Research in Electronics
	Jim Heaton	Electronic Design Programme

Poster Presenters:

John McLean and John Morris (RAL)

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