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2013 PhD Forum at DAC

Wed, 02/23/2011 - 19:07 — linyuan

Call for Submissions


The Ph.D. Forum at the Design Automation Conference is a poster session hosted by SIGDA for Ph.D. students to present and discuss their dissertation research with people in the EDA community. It has become one of the premier forums for Ph.D. students in design automation to get feedback on their research and for industry to see academic work in progress: 400 - 500 people attended the last forums. Participation in the forum is competitive with acceptance rate of around 30%. Limited funds will be available for travel assistance, based on financial needs. The forum is open to all members of the design automation community and is free-of-charge. It is co-located with DAC to attract the large DAC audience, but DAC registration is not required in order to attend this event.
 

Eligibility

  • Students with at least one published or accepted conference, symposium or journal paper.
  • Students within 1-2 years of dissertation completion and students who have completed their dissertation during the 2012-2013 academic year.
  • Dissertation topic must be relevant to the DAC community.
  • Previous forum presenters are not eligible.
  • Students who have presented previously at the DATE and ASP-DAC Ph.D. forums are eligible, but will be less likely to receive travel assistance.

Important Dates

Submission Requirements

  • A two-page PDF abstract of the dissertation (in two-column format, using 10-11 pt. fonts and single-spaced lines), including name, institution, advisor, contact information, estimated (or actual) graduation date, whether the work has been presented at ASP-DAC Ph.D. Forum or DATE Ph.D. Forum, as well as figures, and bibliography (if applicable). The two-page limit on the abstract will be strictly enforced: any material beyond the second page will be truncated before sending to the reviewers. Please include a description of the supporting paper, including the publication forum. A list of all papers authored or co-authored by the student, related to the dissertation topic and included in the two-page abstract, will strengthen the submission.
  • A published (or accepted) paper, in support of the submitted dissertation abstract. The paper must be related to the dissertation topic and the publication forum must have a valid ISBN number. It will be helpful, but is not required, to include your name and the publication forum on the first page of the paper. Papers on topics unrelated to the dissertation abstract or not yet accepted will not be considered during the review process.

Please Note:

  • The abstract is the key part of your submission. Write the abstract for someone familiar with your technical area, but entirely unfamiliar with your work. Clearly indicate the motivation of your Ph.D. dissertation topic, the uniqueness of your approach, as well as the potential impact your approach may have on the topic.
  • In the beginning of the abstract, please indicate to which track your submission belongs to.
  • Proper spelling, grammar, and coherent organization are critical: remember that the two pages may be the only information about yourself and your PhD research available to the reviewers.
  • All submissions must be made electronically.
  • Please include the supporting paper with the abstract in one PDF file and submit the single file. There are many free utilities available online which can merge multiple PDF files into a single file if necessary.

Tracks

  1. System-level Design, Synthesis and Optimization (including network-on-chip, system-on-chip and multi/many-core, HW/SW co-design, embedded software issues, modeling and simulation
  2. High Level Synthesis, Logic Level Synthesis
  3. Physical Design and Manufacturability
  4. Power and Reliability Analysis and Optimization (including power management from system level to circuit level, thermal management, process variability management)
  5. Timing Analysis, Circuit and Interconnect Simulation
  6. Signal Integrity and Design Reliability, Analog/Mixed Signals and RF
  7. Verification, Testing, Pre- and Post-Silicon Validation, Failure Analysis
  8. Reconfigurable and Adaptive Systems
  9. Emerging Design and Technologies (carbon nanotubes, molecular electronics, MEMS, microfluidic system, biologically-inspired systems, quantum computing, etc.)

Submissions dealing with power modeling, analysis, and/or optimization may be submitted to any track, depending on the abstraction level and contents of the work. Same principle also applies to variability-aware and fault-tolerant design and analysis. Please consult your advisor to determine which track is the best fit for your submission. If you still have questions about the most appropriate submission track, you are encouraged to contact the TPC Chair,  Dr. Shiyan Hu (shiyan@mtu.edu).

 

List of accepted abstracts:

 
Ardavan Pedram. Algorithm/Architecture Codesign of Low Power and High Performance Linear Algebra Compute Fabrics
Yiding Han. GPU Based Computer Aided Design Algorithms for EDA
Zhenyu Sun and Hai Li. High Performance and Low Power SpinTransfer Torque Random Access Memory Cache Design
Wei-Cheng Lien and Kuen-Jong Lee. Output Bit Selection Methodology for Test Response Compaction
Xuanxing Xiong and Jia Wang. Toward Vectorless Power Grid Verification
Da-Cheng Juan and Diana Marculescu. A Learning-Based Framework Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Performance Modeling
Shirish Bahirat. Design and Synthesis of Hybrid Nanophotonic NoCs for Future Many-Core Architectures
Yaoguang Wei. Overcoming Physical Design Challenges in Nanometer-Scale Integrated Circuits
Parisa Razaghi. Host-Compiled Multi-Core Processor Simulation for Early Real-Time Performance Evaluation
Younghyun Kim. Design and Runtime Optimizations of Hybrid Energy Storage Systems
Avinash Lingamneni and Krishna Palem. Designing "Good-enough" Parsimonious Hardware Systems through Inexact Computing
Ivan Beretta. A Framework for Knowledge-Driven Design Space Exploration of Wireless Body Sensor Networks
Mihai Pricopi and Tulika Mitra. Polymorphic Heterogeneous Multi-Core System to support Software Diversity
Chundong Wang. On Effective and Efficient Flash Memory Management with Cooperative, Adaptive and Assistive Perspectives
Li Jiang. Yield and Reliability Enhancement for 3D ICs
Sergio Gómez Fernández. Regular Cell Design Approach Considering Litho-Induced Process Variations
Jie Zhang. On Hardware Trojan Design and Detection
Mona Yousofshahi. 2013 PhD Forum at DAC
Lingyi Liu and Shobha Vasudevan. Assertion Based Verification and Coverage Closure Using Data Mining and Static Analysis
Janmartin Jahn and Jörg Henkel. Self-organizing Software Pipelines for Many-core Architectures
Jayita Das, Sanjukta Bhanja and Syed Alam. Non-Volatile STT Based Logic-in-Memory
Ju-Yueh Lee and Lei He. Robust Circuits and Systems for FPGAs
Nishit Kapadia. A Holistic Framework for Multi-objective Synthesis of 2D and 3D NoC-based MPSoCs with Voltage Islands
Semeen Rehman. Reliable Software for Unreliable Hardware

Contact Information

For questions not addressed on this page, please send e-mail to Dr. Shiyan Hu: shiyan@mtu.edu. Please include "DAC Ph.D Forum" in the subject line of your email.

Organizing Committee

Shiyan Hu Michigan Technological University
Laleh Behjat University of Calgary
Mircea Stan, University of Virginia
Gi-Joon Nam, IBM Research

 

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