BANGALORE, India — (BUSINESS WIRE) — November 28, 2013 — Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT), a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, today announced that it will be hosting its 9th annual User2User India conference on December 6, 2013 at Vivanta by Taj (the former Taj Residency), M.G.Road, Trinity Circle, Bangalore.
This year’s conference will feature keynote presentations from Walden C. Rhines, CEO and chairman of Mentor Graphics Corporation and Surya Koneru, senior design engineering director, Cypress Semiconductor Technology. New this year, the conference includes an industry panel discussion on “India is an execution and not an ideation engine – so what?” comprised of Sanjay Tayal, senior engineering manager, Intel; Taher Madraswala, senior vice president , Open Silicon; Santhanakrishnan Raman, managing director, LSI India; Surya Koneru, Cypress Semiconductors; and Walden Rhines, Mentor Graphics as panelists.
The Mentor Graphics® User2User 2013 India conference is part of the annual Mentor Graphics international user conference series. This highly interactive, in-depth technical conference focuses on real world experiences using Mentor® tools to design leading-edge products. Attendees share with their colleagues best practices and the experiences, challenges, tips and tricks that they have learned using Mentor tools to most effectively design, develop and deploy high-quality products.
“The Mentor Graphics User2User conference provides a great opportunity for our customers to network with other Mentor product users to discuss their latest design challenges and learn of new ways to solve these challenges,” stated Hanns Windele, vice president, Europe and India at Mentor Graphics. “Our user conferences have seen continued growth year over year because of the benefit design engineers have seen being able to share best-practice methodologies. With an excellent conference advisory board consisting of executives from many of India’s largest technology companies, we’ve put together a program for this year’s conference that we are confident will exceed our past events.”
User2User 2013 India offers attendees the opportunity to interact directly with other Mentor users, technology experts, and partners. It will feature 24 technical presentations, by many multinational users and Indian companies including STMicroelectronics, IBM, AMD, Xilinx, Microsemi, Honeywell, Ericsson, HCL, Aricent, Sienna ECAD, Cypress Semiconductor and ARM. The technology tracks in the forum will include IC Implementation and Test, Functional Verification, Physical Verification and System Design. This year’s conference will also have a ‘Best Paper Award’ for each technical track, and all the technical papers selected for the conference will carry a special award. For more information on the event and to register, go to:
http://user2user.mentor.com/portfolio-item/user2user-bangalore-2013/
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