General Information

The International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) provides a premier forum to exchange ideas and promote research on critical areas related to the physical design of VLSI systems. All aspects of physical design, including its interactions with architecture, behavioral- and logic-level synthesis, and back-end performance analysis and verification are within the scope of the symposium. Target domains include semi-custom and full-custom IC, regular fabrics, FPGA, and systems-on-chip/systems-in-package. Following its eighteen predecessors, the 2010 symposium will highlight key new directions and leading-edge theoretical and experimental contributions to the field. The advance technical program is now available. The Symposium proceedings will be published by the ACM Press.

Important Dates

Over the past five years, ISPD has organized contests in placement, global routing, and clock network synthesis, that have not only attracted enthusiastic participation from all around the globe, but have also led to significant seminal research advances in these fields. These contests have also resulted in the release of new state-of-the-art benchmark suites that have already found widespread acceptance and usage in the physical design research community. ISPD 2010 will also continue this proud tradition of organizing a contest open to research groups from universities around the world. Details can be found at the contest site

The 2010 ISPD will be co-located with the ACM International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems (TAU Workshop). The workshop will be held on March 18 - March 19, 2010.

The symposium will be held in Marriott Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California. It is sponsored by ACM/SIGDA with technical co-sponsorship from IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. The symposium also receives additional support from Cadence, IBM Research, Intel Corporation, Mentor Graphics, SpringSoft, Sun Microsystems, and Synopsys.