======================================================================== SIGDA -- The Resource for EDA Professionals www.sigda.org ======================================================================== 15 July 2005 ACM/SIGDA E-NEWSLETTER Vol. 35, No. 14 Online archive: http://www.sigda.org/newsletter Online feedback: http://www.sigda.org/newsletter.php?op=survey ======================================================================== (This ACM/SIGDA E-NEWSLETTER is being sent to all persons on the ACM/SIGDA mailing list. To request removal from the list, please email "pmadden@cs.binghamton.edu".) ======================================================================== Contents of this E-NEWSLETTER: (1) Message from the Chair Friday July 15 2005 From: "Diana Marculescu" (2) Current DA TechNews issue Friday July 15 2005 From: "Diana Marculescu" (3) Upcoming Conferences and Symposia Friday July 15 2005 From: "Igor Markov" (4) Upcoming Funding Opportunities Friday July 15 2005 From: "Iris Bahar" (5) CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - 2005 SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award Friday July 15 2005 From: "Nikil Dutt" (6) CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - 2005 ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation Friday July 15 2005 From: "Massoud Pedram" (7) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - ASP-DAC 2006: Ph.D. Forum Friday July 15 2005 From: "Farzan Fallah" ======================================================================== Dear ACM/SIGDA members, We would like to give you an updated on this year's SIGDA EC elections which have recently taken place. After a brief self-organizing initial meeting, the newly elected SIGDA Executive Committee is organized as follows: Chair: Diana Marculescu Vice-Chair: Patrick Madden Secretary/Treasurer: Robert Jones Members-at-Large: Rich Auletta Massoud Pedram Bryan Preas Past Chair: Robert Walker We are looking forward to working with all of you for the next few years. Diana Marculescu, SIGDA Chair (on behalf of the SIGDA EC) ======================================================================== Dear ACM/SIGDA members, The SIGDA E-Newsletter is actively looking for industrial sponsors. If you are an EDA company interested in getting more visibility and supporting our E-Newsletter, please contact the Newsletter editor, Diana Marculescu (dianam@ece.cmu.edu). You can find the content of the current issue of SIGDA TechNews at http://www.acm.org/da_technews/current/homepage.html As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions. If you would like to participate or contribute to the content of the E-Newsletter, please feel free to contact any of us. Diana Marculescu, SIGDA E-Newsletter Editor Larry Pileggi, SIGDA E-Newsletter TechNews Associate Editor R. Iris Bahar, SIGDA E-Newsletter Associate Editor Igor Markov, SIGDA E-Newsletter Associate Editor Hiroto Yasuura, SIGDA E-Newsletter Associate Editor, Asian Activities DA TechNews headlines: "Shift to 65 nm Has Its Costs" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item1 "More Than 10,000 Attend ACM's 42nd Design Automation Conference in Anaheim" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item2 "A Briefing on the Blackfin: Q&A With Analog Devices" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item3 "Once-a-Year Event Assembles Designers, Experts in One Spot" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item4 "GPGPU: Is a Supercomputer Hiding in Your PC?" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item5 "EDA's Shakeup" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item6 "Why Haven't EDA Vendors Delivered DFT at RTL?" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item7 "Intel Says Photonics Light the Way to Faster Chips" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item8 "2005 ITRS Meeting Assesses the IC Industry's Rapid Advance Into Nanotech" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item9 "Open-Source Effort Brings SystemC to Masses" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item10 "Asian Chipmakers Showcase Rapid R&D Advances at Meet" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item11 "OCP-IP" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item12 "Laptops Are Hot; Maybe Too Hot" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item13 "Backplane Connectors Ease Challenges for Design Engineers" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item14 "A Continuous-Time Hierarchical Field Programmable Analog Array for Rapid http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item15 "More Life for Moore's Law" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item16 "Electronics Challenge the Car's Power Grid" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item17 "A New Phase in Nonvolatile Memory" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item18 "Real Engineers Don't Need Hype" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item19 "EDA Tools Appear for 65nm Design" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item20 "Navigating the Silicon Jungle: FPGA or ASIC?" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item21 "Intel's Breakthrough" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item22 "New Trends Drive ATE Open Architecture" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item23 "RF IC Design Flow Can Be a Complicated Endeavor" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item24 "Can't We All Just Get Along? Designers and Manufacturers Grapple With DFM" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item25 "Big Changes in the Chip Industry" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0714t.html#item26 ======================================================================== Submission deadlines: --------------------- ASP-DAC 2006: Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference Yokohama City, Japan Deadline: June 20, 2005 Conference date : Janurary 24-27, 2006 http://www.aspdac.com/aspdac2006/ DATE 2006 - Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Munich, Germany Deadline: September 6 2005 Conference dates: March 6-10, 2006 http://www.date-conference.com/ ISCAS 2006 - Intnl Symp on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Kos Island, Greece Conference dates: May 21-24, 2006 Deadline: October 1, 2005 http://www.iscas06.org/ ISQED 2006 - International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design San Jose, CA Deadline: September 30, 2005 Symposium dates: March 27-29, 2006 http://www.isqed.org ISOCC-2005 - Intnl SoC Design Conf. (ISOCC), Seoul, Korea Deadline: July 15, 2005 Symposium dates: Oct. 20-21, 2005 http://www.isocc.org/ ALENEX06: Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments ANALCO06: Workshop on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics Workshop dates: January 21, 2006 co-located with SODA 2006 DAC 2006 - Design Automation Conference San Francisco, CA Deadline for papers: December 19, 2005 Deadline for the Student Design Contest: Dec. 6, 2005 Conference dates: July 24-28, 2006 http://www.dac.com FLoC 06 - The 2006 Federated Logic Conference Seattle, Washington The following six conferences will participate in FLoC: - Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV). - International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP). - International Joint Conference on Automated Deduction (IJCAR). - IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS). - Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA). - International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT). Conference dates: August 12-21, 2006 http://research.microsoft.com/floc06/ Upcoming symposia, conferences and workshops: --------------------------------------------- The 1st International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Embedded Systems (PDES-05) July 20 - 22, 2005, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan http://juliet.stfx.ca/~lyang/icpads05-pdes/ CCCT 2005 - Computing, Communications and Control Technologies Austin, Texas Conference dates: Jully 24-27, 2005 http://www.iiisconfer.org/ccct05/website/default.asp ICEE - Int'l Conf. on Engineering Education Gliwice, Poland Conference dates: July 25-29, 2005 http://icee2005.polsl.pl/ ISLPED 2005 - Int'l Symp. on Low Power Electronics San Diego, CA Symposium dates: August 8-10, 2005 http://www.islped.org/ HOT Chips 2005 - A Symposium on High Performance Chips Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Symposium dates: August 14-16, 2005 http://www.hotchips.org/ ISSPDA - Int'l Symp. on Signal Processing Applications Sydney, Australia Symposium dates: August 22-25, 2005 http://www.elec.uow.edu.au/isspa2005/ FPL 2005 - Int'l Conf. on Field Programmable Logic and Applications Tampere, Finland Conference dates: August 30-31, 2005 http://fpl.org/ CHES 2005 - Workshop on Cryptograhic Hardware and Embedded Systems Edinburgh, Scotland Workshop dates: August 29 - September 1, 2005 http://islab.oregonstate.edu/ches/ SBCCI 2005 - 18th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design Florianspolis, Brazil Symposium dates: Sept. 4-7, 2005 http://www.sbc.org.br/sbcci CODES+ISSS 2005 - Third IEEE/ACM/IFIP Intl. Conf. on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis Jersey City, USA (New York Metropolitan area) Conference dates: September 19-21, 2005 http://www.codes-isss.org ESTIMedia 2005 - Third IEEE Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia New York Metropolitan Area, USA Workshop Dates: September 22-23, 2005 More info: http://peace.snu.ac.kr/ESTIMedia ICCD 2005 - Intl. Conf. on Computer Design San Jose, California, USA Conference dates: October 2-5, 2005 http://www.iccd-conference.org/ CP 2005: Intl. Conf. on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming Sitges (Barcelona), Spain Conference dates: October 1-5, 2005 http://www.iiia.csic.es/cp2005/ FOCS 2005 - 46th Symp. on Foundations of Computer Science Pittsburgh, PA Symposium dates: October 23-25, 2005 http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~FOCS05/ ICCAD 2005 - Int'l. Conf. on Computer-Aided Design for Integrated Circuits San Jose, CA Conference dates: Nov. 6-10, 2005 http://www.iccad.com The 2005 International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-05) December 16-18, 2005 Xi'an, P.R. China http://icess05.icess.org/ The 2005 IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC'2005) Nagasaki, Japan 6-9 December 2005 http://euc05.euc-conference.org/ VLSI Design 2006: Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design and Intl. Conf. on Embedded Systems Theme: Mobile Embedded Systems Conference dates: January 3-7, 2006 Hyderabad, India http://vlsi.nj.nec.com/ SODA 2006: ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms Miami, Florida Symposium dates: January 22-24, 2006 http://www.siam.org/meetings/DA06/ ======================================================================== NSF PROGRAMS Science and Society (S&S) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05588/nsf05588.htm Deadline: August 23, 2005 ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05584/nsf05584.htm Deadline: July 15, 2005 (leadership awards) July 22, 2005 (institutional transformation awards) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5262&org=CISE&from=home Deadline: July 19-21, 2005 Foundations of Computing Processes and Artifacts (CPA) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05576/nsf05576.htm Deadline: June 20, 2005 Computing Research Infrastructure http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04588/nsf04588.htm Letter of Intent: July 25, 2005 Full Proposals: August 22, 2005 Communicating Research to Public Audiences http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03509/nsf03509.html No fixed deadline Science of Learning Centers http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05509/nsf05509.htm Deadline: January 14, 2005 (Catalyst Competition) February 24, 2005 (preliminary proposal for Centers Competition) June 29, 2005 (full proposals for Centers Competition) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SRC programs Call for White Papers in Packaging Science http://www.src.org/fr/S200504_IPS_WP_call.asp Deadline: July 13, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DARPA programs Connectionless Networks Phase II & III http://www.eps.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/BAA04-26/Attachments.html Deadline: August 8, 2005 Advanced Speech Encoding (ASE) Phase 2 http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa04-35.htm Deadline: July 5, 2005 ADVANCED SOLDIER SENSOR INFORMATION SYSTEM AND TECHNOLOGY (ASSIST) http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa04-38.htm Deadline: August 6, 2005 SITUATION-AWARE PROTOCOLS IN EDGE NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES (SAPIENT) http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa04-32.htm Deadline: June 24, 2005 QinetiQ Evaluation for DCaD http://www.darpa.mil/baa/sn05.29.html Deadline: July 1, 2005 Technology for Agile Coherent Optical Transmission Architecture (TACOTA) http://www.darpa.mil/baa/BAA05-36.html Deadline: July 22, 2005 Scalable Millimeter-wave Architectures for Reconfigurable Transceivers (SMART) http://www.darpa.mil/baa/BAA05-27.html Deadline: June 28, 2005 SPO Office Wide BAA http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa04-40.htm Deadline: September 15, 2005 Knowledge Aided Sensor Signal Processing Expert Reasoning (KASSPER) http://www.darpa.mil/baa/PRDA0107IFKPA.htm Deadline: September 30, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- See http://www.aro.army.mil/research/index.htm for general listing of funding opportunities from US defense sources Window on the United States Program http://www.afosr.af.mil/pages/afrpgacq.htm Deadline: ongoing Window on Europe, Asia, Canada, Central and South America http://www.afosr.af.mil/pages/afrpgacr.htm Deadline: ongoing Department of Homeland Security http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/USN/ONR/HQ/BAA05-008/Grant.html Department of Defense http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOD/DARPA/CMO/BAA05-27/Grant.html ======================================================================== 2005 SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award Deadline: August 1, 2005 SUMMARY The SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award recognizes a junior faculty member early in her or his academic career who demonstrates outstanding potential as an educator and/or researcher in the field of electronic design automation. While prior research and/or teaching accomplishments are important, the selection committee will especially consider the impact that the candidate has had on her or his department and on the EDA field during the initial years of their academic appointment. The award is presented annually at ICCAD, and currently consists of a $1,000 award to the faculty member, along with a citation. ELIGIBILITY Outstanding new faculty who are developing academic careers in areas in or related to electronic design automation are encouraged to apply for this award. Note that this award is not intended for senior or highly experienced investigators who have already established independent research careers, even if they are new to academia. Candidates must have recently completed at least one full academic year and no more than four full academic years in a tenure-track position. Applications will also be considered from people whose appointments are continuing (non-visiting) positions with substantial educational responsibilities regardless whether or not they are tenure track. Persons holding research-only positions are not eligible. Exceptions to the timing requirements will be made for persons who have interrupted their academic careers for substantive reasons, such as family or medical leave. The presence of such reasons must be attested by the sponsoring institution, but no explanation is needed. APPLICATION Candidates applying for the award must submit the following to the selection committee no later than August 1, 2005: (1) a 2-page statement summarizing the candidate's teaching and research accomplishments since beginning their current academic position, as well as an indication of plans for further development over the next five years; (2) a copy of a current curriculum vitae; (3) a letter from either the candidate's department chair or dean endorsing the application. Application packets (preferably as email attachments in pdf) should be sent to: Professor Nikil Dutt Center for Embedded Computer Systems 444 CS, University of California at Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 email: dutt@uci.edu phone: 949-824-7219 fax: 949-824-8019 ======================================================================== CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2005 ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation Submission Deadline: Aug 19, 2005 Award Description: Design automation has gained widespread acceptance by the VLSI circuits and systems design community. Advancement in computer-aided design (CAD) methodologies, algorithms, and tools has become increasingly important to cope with the rapidly growing design complexity, higher performance requirementDACs, and shorter time-to-market demands. To encourage innovative, ground-breaking research in the area of electronic design automation, the ACM's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) has established an ACM award to be given each year to an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation that makes the most substantial contribution to the theory and/or application in the field of electronic design automation. The award consists of a certificate and a check for $1,000 and will be presented at the 2005 International Conference on Computer Aided Design in San Jose, California. The award will be selected by a committee of experts from academia and industry in the field and appointed by ACM in consultation with the SIGDA Chair. Nomination Requirements and Procedure: * Each department of any university may nominate at most one Ph.D. dissertation whose final submission date is between July 1, 2004 and June 30, 2005. * Each nomination package should consist of: 1. Five copies of the dissertation 2. A statement from the nominee up to three pages in length that explains the significance and major contributions of the work 3. A nomination letter from nominee's department chair or dean of the school endorsing the application 4. Up to three additional letters of recommendation from experts in the field. These letters may be included in the package or sent separately. Item 1 must be submitted in (preferably bound) hard copy form. Other items may be submitted as paper printouts or electronically. The nomination materials should be mailed to: Prof. Massoud Pedram Attn: Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award University of Southern California Department of EE-Systems 3740 McClintock Ave. Los Angeles CA 90089-2562 Ofc: (213) 740-4458 Fax: (213) 740-9803 Email: pedram@ceng.usc.edu ======================================================================== ASP-DAC 2006: Ph.D. Forum Information http://www.aspdac.com/aspdac2006/phdforum/index.html ASPDAC will host a poster session for Ph.D. students to present their research work. This is a great opportunity for students to get feedback and have discussion with people from academia and industry. This year travel grants may be available for some of the students attending the forum. The details will be announced soon. Please check the website for updates. Eligibility Students must have at least one published paper and must be within 1-2 years of completing their dissertations. Students who have presented previously at ASP-DAC Important Dates * Submission Deadline: September 1 , 2005 * Notification Date: September 30, 2005 * Forum Presentation: To Be Announced Submission Requirements: * Abstract of the dissertation including name of the student and advisor, institution, contact information, estimated graduation date, track number, figures, tables and bibliography (if applicable). The abstract must be at most two pages (this is a hard limit). * A list of all papers related to the dissertation authored by the student. * A published supporting paper authored by the student and related to the dissertation. * Please send the above to Dr. Farzan Fallah: farzan @ fla. fujitsu.com. Format: * The abstract must be in .pdf or .ps formats (.pdf format is preferable). The font should not be smaller than 10 points. Please make sure all pages print well. * The abstract must be well organized and should not have any spelling error. * The bibliography and the list of published papers must be in IEEE style (See http://www.computer.org/author/style/refer.htm). Tracks: [1] System Level Design Methodology: System VLSI and SOC design methods, System specification, Specification languages, Design languages, Design reuse and IPs, Platform-based design, Network on chip design [2] Embedded and Real-Time Systems: Hardware-software co-design, Co-simulation, Co-verification, Real-time OS and middleware, Design language for embedded systems, Compilation techniques, ASIP synthesis [3] Behavioral/Logic Synthesis and Optimization: Behavioral/RTL synthesis, Technology independent optimization, Technology mapping, Interaction between logic design and layout, Sequential and asynchronous logic synthesis [4] Validation and Verification for Behavioral/Logic Design: Logic simulation, Symbolic simulation, Formal verification, Equivalence checking, Transaction-level/RTL and gate level modeling and validation [5] Physical Design (Routing): Routing, Repeater issues, Interconnect optimization, Interconnect planning, Module generation, Layout verification [6] Physical Design (Placement): Placement, Floorplanning, Partitioning, Hierarchical design [7] Timing, Power, Signal/Power Integrity Analysis and Optimization: Timing analysis, Power analysis, Signal/power integrity, Clock and global signal design [8] Interconnect, Device and Circuit Modeling and Simulation: Interconnect modeling, Interconnect extraction, Package modeling, Circuit simulation, Device modeling/simulation, Library design, Design fabrics, Design for manufacturability, Yield optimization, Reliability analysis, Emerging technologies [9] Test and Design for Testability: Test design, Fault modeling, ATPG, BIST and DFT, Memory, core and system test [10] Analog, RF and Mixed Signal Design and CAD: Analog/RF synthesis, Analog layout, Verification, Simulation techniques, Noise analysis, Analog circuit testing, Mixed signal design [11] Leading Edge Design Methodology for SOCs and SIPs: Microprocessors, DSP, IP-core design, Design for multimedia, Design for wireless communication, A/D mixed circuits, Memories, Sensors, MEMS chips, FPGA design, Novel reconfigurable systems, Rapid prototyping Contact Information Should you have any questions, please send e-mail to Dr. Farzan Fallah: farzan @ fla. fujitsu.com. ========================================================================