43rd DAC!

The 43rd Design Automation Conference (DAC) is the electronic design automation (EDA) industry's premier event that being hold these days in San Francisco. DAC features over 50 technical sessions covering the latest in design methodologies and EDA tool developments and an Exhibition and Demo Suite area with over 250 of the leading EDA, silicon and IP Providers.

DAC 43 Homepage: http://www.dac.com/43rd/index.html

DeepChip's famous "Must See List for DAC 2006": http://www.deepchip.com/gadfly/gad072006.html

SystemC IEEE Standard is Free

The OSCI announced the public availability of the IEEE 1666(TM)-2005 Standard SystemC Language Reference Manual (LRM) now accessible on the IEEE website at http://standards.ieee.org/getieee/1666/index.html.

By making the IEEE 1666 LRM freely available worldwide, OSCI furthers its commitment to the rapid growth of a global community of system, semiconductor, intellectual property, embedded software and EDA companies.

The IEEE approved the IEEE 1666™ -2005 standard for SystemC on December 12, 2005.

Source: http://www10.edacafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=289730