The Electronic Design Processes (EDP) Workshop provides a forum for a cross-section of the design community to discuss state-of-the-art electronic design processes and CAD methodologies. As the requirements and complexities of electronic design increase, past ad hoc approaches to design processes are proving inadequate. The workshop focuses on the facilitation and improvement of the overall design process, rather than on the functions of the individual tools themselves. Topics include interactions among and between tools and designers, the infrastructures supporting these interactions, and the frameworks in which these interactions take place.

EDP 2004 is sponsored by the Design Automation Technical Committee (DATC) of the IEEE Computer Society. The subcommittee emphasizes design processes, libraries, design languages, logic synthesis, verification, manufacturing interfaces, graphics, and database management. The DATC sponsors and co-sponsors about 15 conferences and workshops such as the the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) and the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE). The DATC works extensively with many other organizations such as VHDL International (VI) and Verilog International. The DATC publishes the Design Automation TC Newsletter four times a year in Design and Test magazine and the Web-based Newsletter throughout the year.

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