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- From: cong@rabbit.cs.ucla.edu (Jason Cong)
- Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS -- The 4th ACM/SIGDA Physical Design Workshop
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- CALL FOR PAPERS
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- The 4th ACM/SIGDA Physical Design Workshop
- Layout Synthesis for the New Generation of VLSI ASIC Technologies
- April 19-21, 1993
- Lake Arrowhead, California, U.S.A.
-
- OBJECTIVE
-
- The rapid advances in VLSI ASIC technologies have led to many new
- challenges in the physical design automation of VLSI systems:
- The increasing emphasis on system performance requires timing
- constraints to be considered at every stage of physical design;
- the constantly decreasing feature size leads to much denser
- circuits (close to one million gates on a single chip) and the
- interconnection delay becomes the dominating factor in system
- performance; the widespread use of automatic logic synthesis
- tools complicates many layout problems; the strong need for
- shorter design cycles and lower design costs have resulted in the
- fast development of field-programmable gate-arrays (FPGAs) and
- field-programmable interconnects (FPICs). The objective of this
- workshop is to provide a forum to discuss and investigate these
- emerging problems in physical design automation for the new
- generation of VLSI ASIC technologies.
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- SCOPE
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- The workshop welcomes papers on recent developments in all areas
- of physical design automation of VLSI systems, including
- partitioning, floorplanning and placement, global and detailed
- routing, module generation, and compaction for ICs, MCMs, and
- FPGAs. In particular, the workshop encourages submissions on the
- following topics:
- + Partitioning and placement techniques for very large
- circuits.
- + Performance optimization in layout designs.
- + Design and evaluation of high-speed interconnects in IC and
- MCM designs.
- + Integration of logic synthesis and layout design.
- + Layout design for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and
- field-programmable interconnects (FPICs).
- + Layout design for multiple-chip modules (MCMs).
-
- SUBMISSION
-
- Authors should submit 8 copies of a manuscript, not exceeding 15
- pages (including abstract, figures, tables, and references), to
- the program chair by Dec. 15, 1992. Authors should state clearly
- the originality of their contributions, with adequate comparison
- with existing methods. An informal proceedings will be
- distributed at the workshop, where authors can contribute either
- the full paper (up to 12 pages) or a summary of results (an
- extended abstract of 2-4 pages or a copy of the view-graphs of up
- to 12 pages).
-
- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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- Workshop Chair Workshop Co-Chair
- Prof. Jason Cong Dr. Bryan Preas
- Computer Science Dept. Xerox PARC
- Univ. of California 3333 Coyote Hill Road
- Los Angeles, CA 90024 Palo Alto, CA 94304
- Tel: 310-206-2775 Tel: 415-812-4845
- Fax: 310-825-2273 Fax: 415-812-4471
- cong@cs.ucla.edu preas.pa@xerox.com
-
- Program Chair Publication Chair
- Prof. Carl Sechen Prof. Mary Jane Irwin
- Electrical Engineering Dept. Computer Science Dept.
- Univ. of Washington, FT-10 Penn State University
- Seattle, WA 98195 University Park, PA 16802
- Tel: 206-685-8756 Tel: 814 865-9505
- Fax: 206-543-3842 Fax: 814 865-3176
- sechen@ee.washington.edu mji@cs.psu.edu
-
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- PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-
- Jeff Burns (IBM Watson, USA)
- Wayne Dai (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
- Patrick Groeneveld (TU of Delft, The Netherlands)
- Andrew Kahng (UCLA, USA)
- Youn-Long Lin (Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
- C. Y. Lo (AT&T Bell Lab, USA)
- Massoud Pedram (USC, USA)
- Rob Rutenbar (CMU, USA)
- Lou Scheffer (Cadence, USA)
- Yoichi Shiraishi (Hitachi Ltd., Japan)
- Martin Wong (UT Austin, USA)
- Gerhard Zimmermann (Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
-
-
- BENCHMARKS
-
- Benchmark Chair
- Dr. Krzysztof Kozminski
- MCNC, P.O. Box 12889
- RTP, NC 27709
- Tel: 919-248-1969
- kk@mcnc.org
-
- In addition to the existing layout design benchmarks established
- by the previous physical design workshops, this workshop is going
- to release a set of new benchmarks of 100,000 - 300,000 cells for
- testing partitioning and placement techniques for very large
- designs. Moreover, a set of MCM routing benchmarks of 2,500 -
- 15,000 pins will be released for testing multi-layer general area
- routing algorithms in MCM designs.
-
- Benchmarks will be available via anonymous ftp from mcnc.org or
- on magnetic tape. Send e-mail to benchmarks@mcnc.org to receive
- more information. Benchmark session participants are invited to
- send in their results to the benchmark chair by e-mail
- (kk@mcnc.org) by April 5, 1993. Further instructions regarding
- the benchmark session will be given in the advance program of the
- workshop.
-
- IMPORTANT DATE
-
- Dec. 15, 1992: Deadline of submission.
- Feb. 15, 1993: Notification of acceptance.
- Mar. 25, 1993: Camera-ready copy is due.
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