Computer-Aided Network DEsign Workshop, Whistler, Kanada

The CANDE (Computer&#8211;Aided Network DEsign) Committee is a technical activity of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation which acts as a working group for electronic computer&#8211;aided design&#046; The CANDE Committee holds a yearly workshop to discuss advanced issues relevant to the CAD community&#046; The workshop brings together practitioners, researchers, and managers from industry and academia&#046; To encourage long&#8211;range and open discussion, no proceedings are published and no recordings of sessions are allowed&#046; CANDE community members take an active part in identifying topics and organizing sessions&#046; Planning sessions for the workshop are held at DAC and ICCAD each year&#046; Attendance at the CANDE workshop is open to all EDA/CAD professionals&#046; <b>Keywords:</b> New cycles that could destroy the EDA industry The shift of EDA toward the &#8243;edges&#8243; The next open wave &#8211;&#8211; Open Hardware? Patent process opening and how it affects EDA Five disruptive technology in the next five years&#046;