SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 27, 2006— Based on preliminary registration data released today by the 43rd Design Automation Conference (DAC), 11,352 people have participated in this year's event, making total attendance the highest since 2001. These preliminary DAC attendance numbers broken out by category are: 3,231 registered conference attendees; 3,421 registered exhibit attendees and 4,700 total exhibitors, visitors and guests.

The 43rd DAC continues until Friday, July 28. The DAC exhibit floor closed at 1 p.m today. For information regarding DAC, visit the Web site at http://www.dac.com.

About DAC

DAC is the premier forum for the electronic design industry to exchange information on products, methodologies and processes. Attended by more than 11,000 developers, designers, researchers, managers and engineers from leading electronics companies and universities around the world, DAC includes 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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Public Relations for DAC:
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Emily Taylor, 503-552-3733

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