SAME 2008 FORUM : OCTOBER 1 & 2, 2008

SAME 2008 : FORUM PRESENTATION
SAME (Sophia Antipolis forum on MicroElectronics), the annual event at the cutting edge of microelectronic technologies has experienced constant growth each year since its creation, attracting over 1 000 participants.
The Association SAME in partnership with the French Riviera Chamber of Commerce and with the support of local and regional institutions will organize:

The SAME 2008 Forum: October 1 & 2, 2008
11th Edition of the Sophia Antipolis MicroElectronics Forum

The SAME 2008 Forum(Sophia Antipolis forum on MicroElectronics) provides an exceptional venue for discussions and demonstrations with the opportunity to meet exhibitors displaying microelectronics related products..

SAME 2008 Forum: A major European microelectronics event where you’ll meet key market players : industrial leaders, start-ups and academics.

  Key Success Factor for SAME 2008 Forum: a unique opportunity to debate key issues and future trends within a high level technical environment:
    • New this year : The University Booth : With demonstrations on EDA Software and Working Silicon Hardware.
• Emphasis will be given to the Start-ups, Tutorials and Technical Papers.
• An Executive Panel on “Electronics Systems & the Environment”.
• A Technical Panel on “Integrated Circuit enabling Low Power Efficiency”.
• A Start-ups Panel.

  SAME 2008 Forum: MAIN TOPIC
   
Green Electronics : Innovation in the Environmental Revolution

The areas of interest for SAME 2008 Forum are :
1. Low Power Software
2. Low Power Tools and Methodologies
3. Low Power Design
4. Low Power Process
5. Low Power Architecture
6. Efficient Prototyping

  SAME 2008 Forum: AGENDA
   
October 1, 2008:
1. Keynote Speech,
2. Executive Panel with the topic: “Electronics Systems & the Environment”,
3. Start-ups Panel, Tutorials and Technical Conferences,
4. Informal Dinner Party will close the 1st day with the Best Start-up Award.

October 2, 2008:
1. Technical Panel “Integrated Circuit enabling Low Power Efficiency”,
2. Technical Conferences and remaining Tutorials,
3. The Best Awards for the Paper and the demonstration on the University Booth will cloture the forum.

The Exhibition & the University Booth:
October 1 : 10:30 AM to 6:00 PM.
October 2 : 09:30 AM to 5:00 PM.

Technical Conferences & Tutorials: during the 2 days

SAME 2008 Forum, will close on October 2, at: 4:30 PM With the Official Cocktail,
And the "Best Paper & Best Demonstration Awards" SAME 2008 Forum.


SAME 2007 Forum was a great success and has become a major European event open to all professionals within the micro-electronics sector and took place in the heart of the Science and Technology Park of Sophia Antipolis, South of France.

  The Awards for the SAME Forum 2007:
    • The Best Paper Award:
A 1.2 V 16 MHz Phase-Domain Analog–to–Digital Converter : Martin Kucera, Thierry Melly – (CSEM) – (Session6 – Mixed Signal).
The Best Paper Award is a work in hand blown glass by an artist from Biot (Nicolas Laty).

• The Best Start-up Award: in recognition of the best start-up. Ansyn, Suède.

• The Best Poster Award::
Validation and Optimization of Multi-Standard Transceiver :B. Nicolle, A. Lewicki, - LEAT, UMR CNRS-UNSA (Poster 2).

• The Best Poster Award:
Wireless Universal Serial Bus Physical Layer: Anne-Claire Berger, Frédéric Boeuf, Michaela Toniolo – Polytech’ Nice-Sophia Christophe Gautier – Texas Instruments.

  Some Results on SAME 2007 Forum:
    • Technical conferences: 47 papers received. A program comprising 6 sessions and 16 presentations selected for the quality of their content.



• Tutorials: 6 themes selected and 220 enrolments..

• Sponsors: 23 companies contributed to the organization of the SAME 2007 Forum.

• Exhibition: 47 exhibitors.
17 companies from the Alpes-Maritimes,
4 from the PACA region excluding Alpes-Maritimes,
11 from France excluding PACA,
10 from foreign countries.
And 5 partners’ booths : 3 from the PACA region and 2 from abroad (Belgium and Great Britain).




• Participants: 930 participants.
69% Alpes-Maritimes
8% PACA* region, excluding Alpes-Maritimes * PACA : Provence-Alpes- Côte d’Azur Region
14% France excluding PACA
9% Abroad





• Media coverage:  5 representatives from the international press were present:
9 from France : EE-Times, Electronique, Electronique International, La Provence, Nice Matin, Sophianet.com, LMS News, Explorateur Numétique, L’Usine Nouvelle.
3 from UK : Electronics Weekly , IEE Review, New Electronics.
1 from Germany : Elektronik.
1 from Italy : Electtronica Oggi.


The National & International Press Review is now on-line.

  SAME 2007 : Partnership with the charity association "Rencontres Africaines" and the Lenval Foundation.
    The donation (11 900 €) will participate to finance one or more on-site surgery missions in Mauritania, where operations will be performed on children suffering from malformations from birth or other complaints…
This mission will be handled by teams of specialists from the LENVAL hospital in Nice.

  Contact :
    Anne Claire DESNEULIN
Project Manager Forum SAME 2008
SAME Association
Tel : +33 (0)492 294 825
e-mail : same@cote-azur.cci.fr

Updated, May 22th 2008
• Contact : same@cote-azur.cci.fr