BusinessWire -- July 11, 2006

Naeem Zafar to speak at SEMICON West

Pyxis Technology, the DFM (design for manufacturability) routing company, today announced that Naeem Zafar, CEO and president, will be speaking in the DFM session at SEMICON West 2006 on 11 July.

WHAT: The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) and SEMI are sponsoring a track at SEMICON West 2006 entitled "DFM: Why Care -- What is Being Done." Zafar’s presentation, entitled "DFM: Necessitating revolution throughout the flow" will focus on the need for designers to become more involved with manufacturing and yield issues, since these are strongly design dependent and are affected by how the design is laid out. He will describe a design-driven process as well as design creation products that have DFM in mind from the start, enabling designers to easily trade off between design and manufacturing constraints and then help fix the identified problems. The result is DFM-correct designs.

WHEN: 11:00am on July 11th.

WHERE: At the DFM track in the Manufacturing Productivity TechXPOT in Esplanade Hall at SEMICON West 2006 in the Moscone Center, San Francisco.

About Pyxis
Pyxis Technology is creating software to address the problems that chip designers and foundries face in the physical design, layout, and routing of nanometer-scale integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on a chip (SoCs). The company is focused on DFM routing technology based on a new software architecture optimized for design for manufacturability, which reduces design closure cycle time while improving overall design yield.