The International Symposium on Physical Design provides a high-quality forum for the exchange of ideas and results in critical areas related to the physical design of VLSI systems. The scope of this symposium includes all aspects of physical design, from interactions with behavior- and logic-level synthesis, to back-end performance analysis and verification.

The symposium is sponsored by ACM/SIGDA and with technical cosponsorship from IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Financial support has been provided by Cadence, Golden Gate, IBM, Intel,  Magma, Mentor Graphics, Sierra, and Synopsys.

ISPD 2005 slides are AVAILABLE  online.

Press regarding ISPD 2005

• EDA TOOLS: Frameworks renew life for OpenAccess
• Benchmark suite tests IC placement algorithms
• EDA development going in-house, analyst says
• Logic synthesis 'dying,' Magma's Madhavan says

Placement Contest Pictures

Symposium Organization

Technical Program Committee

Publication/Publicity Chairs

Technical programs from prior years: