BOULDER, Colo.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 18, 2006— The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is offering the opportunity to visit its exhibit floor for free on Monday, July 24. DAC Free Monday allows access to the DAC exhibit show floor where nearly 250 exhibitors are scheduled to showcase their innovative design tools, services and technologies. DAC, the electronic design automation (EDA) industry's premier event, will be held July 24 - 28 in San Francisco.

Each year at DAC, the dynamic exhibit floor serves as a valuable gathering of the global design automation community. The floor features exhibitors demonstrating the latest trends in electronic design and each year the industry looks forward to DAC for the new technologies and ideas that emerge there.

DAC exhibit hours will be 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, July 24. Registration for DAC Free Monday is available at the DAC Web site http://www.dac.com/43rd/reg.html or at the conference. An exhibits-only pass for the rest of the week is available for $60.

About DAC

DAC is the premier forum for the electronic design industry to exchange information on products, methodologies and processes. Attended by more than 10,000 developers, designers, researchers, managers and engineers from leading electronics companies and universities around the world, DAC includes nearly 250 exhibitors and offers a robust technical program covering the electronics industry's hottest trends to bring people to the event.

The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA), the Circuits and Systems Society and Computer Aided Network Design Technical Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE/CASS/CANDE), the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium). More details about DAC are available at: www.dac.com.

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