On behalf of the eD&S Fair 2001 Organizing Committee, I would like to invite you to attend the Electronic Design and Solution Fair 2001(eD&S Fair 2001) in Japan. The eD&S Fair 2001 will be held in conjunction with ASP-DAC2001.

The purpose of the eD&S Fair 2001, sponsored by the Electronic Industries Association of Japan (EIAJ), is to exhibit and promote the latest EDA technologies,System LSIs,IPs and Design Service from Japan and overseas. Attendees this year will benefit even more due to the combination of ASP-DAC2001, FPGA/PLD Conference and eD&S Fair 2001.

Among the unique features of eD&S Fair 2001 is the University Plaza, in which university research results are presented with the aim of an information exchange with industry engineers. We would like to invite conference attendees to join the discussion with exhibiting researchers on this plaza.

Please be sure to visit and enjoy eD&S Fair 2001 as well as the ASP-DAC conference.

Until 2000, the Electronic Industries Association of Japan (EIAJ) held the EDA TechnoFair seven times. This event has been Japan's only comprehensive exhibition of design technologies related to electronic equipment and large-scale integrated circuits (LSIs), as well as electronic design automation (EDA).

In the year 2001, this Fair will be integrated with the FPGA/PLD Design Conference & Exhibit, which has been organized and held by Field Programmable Gate Array/Programmable Logic Device (FPGA/PLD) vendors and university personnel since 1993. Renamed the Electronic Design and Solution Fair, the exhibition will cover not only EDA technologies, but also leading-edge device technologies such as application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and FPGA/PLD, as well as technologies for reusing intellectual property (IP), integrated software technologies and various design services.

Electronic equipment and information systems are the pillars supporting today's digital network age. At the heart of these technologies is the system LSI, or Systems-on-Chip (SoCs). One of the most urgent challenges the industry faces is discovering ways to develop SoCs within a short period of time while maintaining high performance, energy efficiency and low costs. Design and solution technologies in this field are therefore playing a key role in SoC development.

At the start of the 21st century, the development of advanced EDA technologies and innovative design systems is being pursued worldwide, with the aim of creating mechanisms that assure ultrahigh-speed circuit operation on a scale of one micron or less. The appearance of IP, an important element in the SoC era, is causing crucial paradigm shifts in both design methods and business models.

The mission of the Electronic Design and Solution Fair is to fulfill today's requirements for new solutions by combining advanced technologies, and to contribute to and further promote the development and growth of electronics technologies and related industries.

This year's Fair, the first in the 21st century, is to be held under the slogan of "Gathering Design Technologies for Electronics in the New Century," and its scope as a technological exhibition will be expanded.