======================================================================== SIGDA -- The Resource for EDA Professionals www.sigda.org ======================================================================== 1 August 2005 ACM/SIGDA E-NEWSLETTER Vol. 35, No. 15 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. 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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: "Chip Giants, New York Team Up for Lithography Research Effort" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item1 "Metal-Cooled Computing" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item2 "Networking Concepts Inspire Next-Gen SoCs" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item3 "University of Surrey Has Key to 45 nm Production" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item4 "EDA Turns to FPGA" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item5 "Tech Show to Highlight Video, Signal Processing" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item6 "Chip Industry Needs 20,000 More Design Engineers" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item7 "EDA Can't Afford to Ignore Test Chips Any Longer" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item8 "Performance Networking Research at Intel China Research Center" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item9 "Nozzle Nobbles Heat" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item10 "Silicon Down to the Wire" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item11 "Oasis" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item12 "CEO Viewpoint: The Soft Science of FPGAs" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item13 "Can Nature Deliver Nanotechnology's Promise?" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item14 "Boards Skirt Tradition, Flirt With IC Techniques" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item15 "From SiPs, SoPs to Convergent Systems" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item16 "Global Designer: Hong Kong Team Wins Power-Supply-Design Contest" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item17 "New Progress on MIGFETs" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item18 "IC Materials Change to Meet Environmental Standards" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item19 "In Search of an ESL Design Methodology" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item20 "Shrinking Circuits With Water" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item21 "3D, Multi-Gate Transistor Structures for Next Gen Wireless Devices" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item22 "Backplane Connectors Ease Challenges for Engineers" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item23 "Nano-Imprint Makes Its Mark" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item24 "Structured ASICs Deserve Serious Attention at 90nm" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2005-3/0728t.html#item25 ======================================================================== Submission deadlines: --------------------- 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: --------------------------------------------- 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/ ASP-DAC 2006: Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference Yokohama City, Japan Conference date : Janurary 24-27, 2006 http://www.aspdac.com/aspdac2006/ ======================================================================== 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 No current calls ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ======================================================================== 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 ========================================================================