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On June 17, 2009, ARM and the member companies of the Power Forward Initiative (PFI) hosted a free power-aware Design Summit in Cambridge, UK. Engineers and managers from the UK low-power community attended. John Biggs from ARM gave the keynote address titled "Every Joule is Sacred" where he discussed ARM's emphasis on low power, some key low power dissipation trends, and some of the challenges to implement low power techniques. Steve Carson from Cadence gave the other keynote entitled."EDA in a Greening World" where he discussed what is meant by Green design and how Cadence is enabling Green Design automation. Other presentations at the event were as follows:

• ARM Low Power Design Experiences - Stuart Riches, ARM

• Implementing a Complete Low Power Flow From Architecture to GDS2 - Michael O'Sullivan, Cadence

• Migration towards a CPF-integrated and Automated Low-Power Flow  - Flavio Cali, S3

• Low Power design principles for short range wireless IPs - Santosh Shivadatta, Mindtree

• Reducing the IP Integration Complexity in Low Power Design - John Longvill, Cadence

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