<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:32pt;font-family:Arial">IEEE International High Level Design</span><span style="font-size:32pt;font-family:&#39;MS Mincho&#39;"></span><span style="font-size:32pt;font-family:Arial">Validation and Test Workshop 2009</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>


<p style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:21pt;font-family:Arial">November 4-6, 2009</span></b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>


<p style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:21pt;font-family:Arial">Grand Hyatt, San Francisco (Union Square)</span></b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Register at </span><a href="http://www.hldvt.com/09/registration.html" style="color:rgb(42, 93, 176)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">http://www.hldvt.com/09/registration.html</span></a> <span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">before <b>October 7</b></span><b><sup><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial">th</span></sup></b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial"> to receive discounted registration rates. Book your hotel room in the heart of San Francisco at a discounted rate of $140.</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>


<p style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">For the past 13 years, IEEE International High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop has been a platform for addressing emerging challenges in verification and test methodologies for ICs and systems. </span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">The workshop is an informal forum where EDA tool developers, academics, and industrial practitioners get together to discuss contemporary issues in </span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">verification, debug, synthesis, and test.</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>


<p style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><b><span style="font-size:21pt;font-family:Arial">This year&#39;s program will feature….</span></b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>


<p style="margin-left:29pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>      </span></span></span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Keynote Address by <b><i>Sunil R. Shenoy</i></b> - Vice President, Intel Architecture Group, and General Manager, Microprocessor and Graphics Development - Intel Corporation</span></p>


<p style="margin-left:29pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>      </span></span></span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Seventeen Regular Papers</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:29pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>      </span></span></span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Panel: <b><i><span style="color:rgb(34, 30, 31)">SystemC Why: To Design or to Verify? <span style="font-weight:normal">What experts say?</span></span></i></b></span></p>


<p style="margin-left:29pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>      </span></span></span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Special Session: <b><i><span style="color:rgb(34, 30, 31)">Innovative Industrial Practices</span></i></b></span></p>


<p style="margin-left:29pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>      </span></span></span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Three Invited Sessions:</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:12pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:1.25in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>      </span></span></span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34, 30, 31)">RTL Validation and Debug</span></i><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"></span></i></p>


<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:1.25in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>      </span></span></span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34, 30, 31)">High-Level Modeling and Validation</span></i><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"></span></i></p>


<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:1.25in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span>      </span></span></span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34, 30, 31)">Post-Silicon Validation and Debug</span></i></p>


<p style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Helpful Links:</span></b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify">


<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Advance Program: </span><a href="http://www.hldvt.com/09/HLDVTAP09.pdf" style="color:rgb(42, 93, 176)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">http://www.hldvt.com/09/HLDVTAP09.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>


<p style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial">Hotel Information:   </span><a href="http://www.hldvt.com/09/local.html" style="color:rgb(42, 93, 176)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">http://www.hldvt.com/09/local.html</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>


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