======================================================================== SIGDA -- The Resource for EDA Professionals www.sigda.org ======================================================================== 1 January 2003 ACM/SIGDA E-NEWSLETTER Vol. 33, No. 1 ======================================================================== (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) News from the E-Newsletter Editorial board Monday 23 December 2002 From: "Diana Marculescu" (2) Upcoming Conferences and Symposia Friday 20 December 2002 From: "Igor Markov" "Ali Iranmanesh" "Rich Auletta" "Mircea Stan" (3) Upcoming Funding Opportunities Friday 20 December 2002 From: "Iris Bahar" ======================================================================== Dear ACM/SIGDA members, New for January 2003, we will start our bi-weekly TechNews section that will feature research/development/industry news tailored for the Electronic Design Automation professional. We hope you will find these news, as well as the entire newsletter, a valuable source of information and resources. 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. We wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year! 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 ======================================================================== Submission deadlines: --------------------- SLIP 2003 - Intl. Workshop on System-Level Interconnect Prediction Monterey, California (co-located with ISPD 2003) Deadline: January 10 Workshop Dates: April 5-6, 2003 http://www.sliponline.org/ GLSVLSI 2003 - Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI Washington, DC Deadline : January 10, 2003 Symposium Dates: Apr. 28-29, 2003 http://www.glsvlsi.org/ ITSW 2003 - 10th International Test Synthesis Workshop Santa Barbara, California Deadline: Jan 10, 2003 Workshop Dates: March 31 - April 2, 2003 http://cadlab.ece.ucsb.edu/~itsw/ITSW.html ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM TECS) Special Issue on Dynamically Adapatable Embedded Systems Deadline: Jan 13, 2003 http://www.ece.virginia.edu/~jcl7d/tecs/cfp_das.html FCCM 2003 - Field Programable Custom Computing Machines Napa, California Deadline: Jan 13, 2003 Conference Dates: Apr 8-13, 2003 http://www.fccm.org/ ICALP 2003: Intl. Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming Eindhoven, The Netherlands Deadline: January 12, 2003 Colloquium Dates: June 30 - July 4, 2003 http://www.win.tue.nl/icalp2003/ CAV 2003 - Computer-Aided Verification Conference Boulder, Colorado Deadline: Jan 22, 2003 Conference Dates: July 8-12, 2003 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/trcenter/CAV/callforpapers.html ICMENS 2003 - Intl. Conf. on MEMS, NANO, and Smart Systems Banff, Alberta - Canada Deadline: Jan 25, 2003 (Jan 10 for tutorials and special sessions) Conference Dates: July 20-23, 2003 http://www.icmens.org/ SIGDA PH.D. Forum 2003 Anaheim, CA (in conjunction with DAC 2003) Deadline: Jan. 31, 2003 (please note the *early* deadline) Date: June 3, 2003 http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigda/daforum MEMOCODE'2003 - Formal Methods and Models for Codesign Mont Saint-Michel, France Deadline: February 1, 2003 Conference Dates: June 24-26, 2003 http://www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2003/MEMOCODE/ ASIC-SOC 2003 - IEEE International SOC Conference (Formerly IEEE International ASIC/SOC Conference) Portland, OR Deadline: April 4, 2003 Conference Dates: September 17-20, 2003 http://www.ieee-soc.org Upcoming symposia, conferences and workshops: --------------------------------------------- VLSI Design 2003 - Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design Delhi, India January 4-8, 2003 http://vlsi.ccrl.nj.nec.com/~chak/vlsi2003/ SODA 2003 - ACM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms Baltimore, Maryland January 12-14, 2003 http://www.siam.org/meetings/da03/ Workshops co-located with SODA 2003 ALENEX 2003 - ALgorithms ENgineering and EXperimentation http://www.siam.org/meetings/alenex03/ ALICE 2003 - ALgorithms for Listing Counting and Enumeration http://www.siam.org/meetings/alice03/index.htm ASP-DAC 2003 - Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference Kitakyushu, Japan January 21-24, 2003 http://www.aspdac.com/ ISQED 2003 - International Symposium on Quality in Electronic Design Monterey, CA March 24-26, 2003 http://www.isqed.org/ ======================================================================== Upcoming Funding Opportunities ------------------------------ NSF programs Information Technology Research (ITR) http://www.cise.nsf.gov/div/eia/fndg/display.cfm?pgm_pims_id=5524&pgm_supp_id=&loc=eia&pub_id=5767 PROPOSAL DEADLINE(S) : March 24, 2003 Large projects: Pre-proposals are mandatory and are due by November 18, 2002. February 12, 2003 Medium projects: Proposals are due by February 12, 2003. Quantum and Biologically Inspired Computing (QuBIC) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2001/nsf0195/nsf0195.htm Deadline February 3, 2003 CISE Research Resources (CISE-RR) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2001/nsf01100/nsf01100.html Deadline February 3, 2003 Networking Research Program (ANIR) http://www.cise.nsf.gov/div/anir/fndg/display.cfm?pgm_pims_id=5151&pgm_supp_id=&loc=anir&pub_id=5363 February 01, 2003 NSF Middleware Initiative (replaces NSF 02-028) http://www.cise.nsf.gov/fndg/pubs/display.cfm?pgm_pims_id=5174&pgm_supp_id=10099&loc=fndg_ops&pub_id=5384 March 07, 2003 Advanced Computational Research http://www.cise.nsf.gov/div/ccr/fndg/display.cfm?pgm_pims_id=5313&pgm_supp_id=10094&loc=ccr&pub_id=5527 March 01, 2003 July 01, 2003 Major Research Instrumentation Program http://www.cise.nsf.gov/div/ccr/fndg/display.cfm?pgm_pims_id=5260&pgm_supp_id=&loc=ccr&pub_id=5473 January 23, 2003 SRC programs Competition for 2003 Fellowships and Scholarships Announced http://www.src.org/member/news/gfp_2003_news.asp February 3, 2003 DARPA programs Innovative Information Exploitation Technology http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa03-03.htm Closing Date: February 11, 2003 ========================================================================