======================================================================== SIGDA -- The Resource for EDA Professionals www.sigda.org ======================================================================== 1 March 2003 ACM/SIGDA E-NEWSLETTER Vol. 33, No. 5 ======================================================================== (This ACM/SIGDA E-NEWSLETTER is being sent to all persons on the ACM/SIGDA mailing list. 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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: --------------------- FM 2003 -- Intl. Symposium on Formal Methods in Europe Pisa, Italy Deadline: March 7, 2003 Symposium Dates: September 8-14, 2003 http://matrix.iei.pi.cnr.it/FMT/FME/fme-cfp.htm EURO-MICRO 2003 Antalya, TURKEY Deadline: March 10, 2003 Conference Dates: Sep. 3-5, 2003 http://www.sea.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/eu2003/ PATMOS 2003 - Intl. Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation Torino, Italy Deadline: March 14, 2003 Workshop Dates: September 10-12, 2003 http://eda.polito.it/patmos03/ CHES 2003 -- Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems Cologne, Germany Deadline: March 14, 2003 Workshop Dates: September 8-10, 2003 http://islab.oregonstate.edu/ches/start.html FPL 2003 - International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic Lisbon, Portugal Deadline: Mar 14,2003 Conference Dates: Sept 1-3, 2003 http://fpl.org/ Hot CHips 15 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Deadline: March 15 Conference Dates: Aug. 17-19, 2003 http://www.hotchips.org/ The 2003 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware July 9-11, 2003 Chicago, Illinois, USA Deadline: March 17, 2003 Conference Dates: July 9-11, 2003 http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/~eh2003/ 2003 International Conference on VLSI(VLSI-03) Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Deadline: March 30, 2003 Conference Dates: June 23-26, 2003 http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/ SBCCI 2003 -- 16th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design Sao Paulo, Brazil Deadline: March 31, 2003 Symposium Dates: Sept. 8-13, 2003 http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/chipinsampa/ ICECS 2003 -- 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems Sharjah, United Arab Emirates University of Sharjah Deadline for submission: April 2, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2003 Deadline for final version: September 1, 2003 Conference dates: Dec. 14-17, 2003 http://www.icecs2003.org CICC 2003 - IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference San Jose, CA Deadline: April 2, 2003 Conference Dates: September 17-20, 2003 http://www.ieee-cicc.org/ CONCUR 2003 -- Intl. Conf. on Concurrency Theory Marseille, France Deadline: April 4, 2003 Conference Dates: Septmber 3-5, 2003 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 ESSCC 2003 -- European Solid-State Circuits Conference Estoril, Portugal Deadline: April 4, 2003 Conference Dates: September 16-18, 2003 http://www.chipidea.com/esscirc2003/ CODES/ISSS Merged Conference Oct.1-3, 2003 Newport Beach, CA Marriott Hotel Deadline for submission: Monday, April 7, 2003 Notification of acceptance: Friday, June 6, 2003 Deadline for final version: Friday, July 4, 2003 http://www.ece.uci.edu/~codes/ CHARME 2003 -- Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods L'Aquila, Italy Deadline: April 11, 2003 Conference Dates: October 21-24, 2003 http://www.di.univaq.it/charme2003/ IEEE Micro: Special Issue on Power- and Complexity-Aware Design Deadline: April 15, 2003 http://www.computer.org/micro/articles/m5cfp.pdf ICCAD 2003 -- Intl. Conf. on Computer-Aided Design San Jose, CA Deadline: April 16, 2003 Conference Dates: November 9-13, 2003 http://www.iccad.com/ MAPLD 2003 - Intl. Conf. on Military Applications of Programmable Logic Devices Washington, D.C. Deadline: April 25, 2003 Conference Dates: September 9-11, 2003 BMC 2003 -- Intl. Workshop on Bounded Model Checking Boulder, Colorado, USA Deadline: April 27, 2003 Workshop Dates: July 13, 2003 http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~bmc03/ Upcoming symposia, conferences and workshops: --------------------------------------------- DATE 2003 - Design Automation and Test in Europe Munich, Germany March 3-7, 2003 http://date-conference.com International Summer School on Metaheuristics Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain March 3-7, 2003 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~meta/summerschool.html ISPASS 2003 - Intl. Symp. on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software Austin, TX March 6-8, 2003 http://ispass.org IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures Monterey, CA Mar 17-20, 2003 http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/ICMTS/ ISQED 2003 - International Symposium on Quality in Electronic Design Monterey, CA March 24-26, 2003 http://www.isqed.org/ MAPSP 2003 -- Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems Aussois, France 30 March - 5 April http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/mapsp/ SLIP 2003 -- System Level Interconnect Prediction Workshop Monterey, CA April 4-5, 2003 http://www.sliponline.org/ ISPD 2003 -- ACM International Sympsium on Physical Design Monterey, CA April 6-9, 2003 http://www.ispd.cc/ ICASSP 2003 -- IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Hong Kong April 6-10, 2003 http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~icassp03/ ETAPS 2003, European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software April 7-11, 2003 Warsaw, Poland http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/etaps03/ FCCM 2003 -- Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines Napa, CA April 8-11, 2003 http://www.fccm.org/ Cool Chips VI April 16-18, 2003 Yokohama, Japan Jan 27, 2003 http://www.coolchips.org/ RAW 2003 Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop Nice, France April 22, 2003 http://www.ece.lsu.edu/vaidy/raw03/ HiCOMB 2003 -- Intl. Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology Nice, France Tuesday, April 22, 2003 http://hpc.eece.unm.edu/HiCOMB/ VLSI-TSA 2003 -- Intl. Symp. on VLSI Technology, Systems, and Applications Hsinchu, Taiwan April 23-25, 2003 http://vlsitsa.itri.org.tw/default.asp VTS 2003 -- IEEE VLSI Test Symposium Napa, CA Apr 27-May 1, 2003 http://www.tttc-vts.org/ GLSVLSI 2003 -- Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI Washington D.C. April 28-29, 2003 http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigda/glsvlsi/ ======================================================================== Upcoming Funding Opportunities ------------------------------ NSF PROGRAMS SENSORS AND SENSOR NETWORKS http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03512/nsf03512.htm Deadline: March 6, 2003 NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03513/nsf03513.htm Deadline: March 7, 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 Quantitative Systems Biotechnology (QSB) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03517/nsf03517.htm Deadline: March 18, 2003 Engineering Sciences for Modeling, Simulation, Decision-Making and Emerging Technologies http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf03505 Full Proposal Deadline Date - By Invitation Only: March 14, 2003 Information Technology Research http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf02168 Deadline Date for Large Projects : March 24, 2003 Ultra-High-Capacity Optical Communications: Challenges in Broadband Optical Access, Materials Processing, and Manufacturing http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf03537 Letter of Intent Due Date.: March 31, 2003 Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03521/nsf03521.html Letter of Intent due (optional): February 27, 2003 Full Proposals: April 9, 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 High Performance Network Connections http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03529/nsf03529.htm Deadline: April 21, 2003 Ultra-High-Capacity Optical Communications http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03537/nsf03537.htm Letter of Intent: March 31, 2003 Deadline: May 6, 2003 SRC programs Robert M. Burger Fellowship Competition http://www.src.org/member/news/burger_news.asp Deadline: April 30, 2003 DARPA PROGRAMS Network of Embedded Software Technology (NEST) http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa02-12.htm Closing Date: March 5, 2003 Model-Based Integration of Embedded Software (MoBIES) http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa02-11.htm Closing Date: March 7, 2003 Clockless Logic, Analysis, Synthesis, and Systems http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa03-05.htm Closing Date: March 12, 2003 Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS) Robotic Vision 2020 http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa02-15.htm Deadline: April 3, 2003 Software for Distributed Robotics (SDR) Indoor Reconnaissance Experiments/Demonstration http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa02-14.htm Deadline: April 3, 2003 ========================================================================