======================================================================== SIGDA -- The Resource for EDA Professionals www.sigda.org ======================================================================== 1 April 2003 ACM/SIGDA E-NEWSLETTER Vol. 33, No. 7 ======================================================================== (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) Current DA TechNews issue Tuesday 1 April 2003 From: "Diana Marculescu" (2) Upcoming Conferences and Symposia Tuesday 1 April 2003 From: "Igor Markov" (3) Upcoming Funding Opportunities Tuesday 1 April 2003 From: "Iris Bahar" (4) Educator's Grant for FCRC'03 Tuesday 1 April 2003 From: "Soha Hassoun" (5) Call for papers: IEEE Computer Special issue on Power-Aware and Temperature-Aware Computing - December 2003 Tuesday 1 April 2003 From: "Mircea Stan" (6) Call for participation: GLSVLSI 2003 Washington D.C., April 28-29, 2003 Tuesday 1 April 2003 From: "Mircea Stan" (7) Call for participation: ISPD 2003 Monterey, CA, April 6-9, 2003 Tuesday 1 April 2003 From: "Patrick Madden" ======================================================================== Dear ACM/SIGDA members, You can find the content of the current issue of SIGDA TechNews at http://www.acm.org/da_technews/current/homepage.html This week's headlines: "ISQED Speakers Back Platform-Based Design" EE Design (03/25/03); Santarini, Michael http://www.eedesign.com/news/OEG20030325S0045 "ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference To Deliver Robust Technical Program in Celebration of 40th Anniversary" Business Wire (03/17/03) "Engineers Create World's First Transparent Transistor" ScienceDaily (03/26/03) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/03/030326074125.htm "Intel Patent Aims to Stop Overclocking" InternetNews.com (03/25/03); Singer, Michael http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/2170121 "FPGA Tool Startup Looks to Make ASICs Obsolete" Silicon Strategies (03/17/03); Goering, Richard http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20030317S0037 "Quantum Chips Advance" Technology Research News (03/19/03); Smalley, Eric "PCB Design Keynoter Calls for Design, Manufacturing Collaboration" Electronic Engineering Times--Asia (03/14/03); Santarini, Mike http://www.eetasia.com/article_content.php3?article_id=8800301607 (Access to this site is free; however, first-time visitors must register.) "AmberWave Makes Strides in Strained Silicon Processes" Investor's Business Daily (03/20/03) P. A6; DeTar, James "Australian Space Computer Is a 'World First'" Electronics News (AU) (03/14/03); Keeping, Steven http://www.dialelectronics.com.au/articles/63/0c014f63.asp "Designing for Future" Economic Times of India (03/17/03) "Scientists Develop 'Brain Chip'" BBC News (03/12/03) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2843099.stm "DAC to Concentrate on Low Power Issues" EE Times (03/14/03); Mokhoff, Nicolas http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20030314S0031 "University of Toronto Study Charts New Realm of Physics" EurekAlert (03/19/03) http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-03/uot-uot031903.php "Automated Compiler Technology for Custom Processor Designers" Electronics Weekly (UK) (03/12/03); Ball, Richard "Sparks Fly in Server Microchip Race" NewsFactor Network (03/12/03); Martin, Mike http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20983.html "NVE Gets Ready to Clean Up When Memory Enters the Spin Cycle" Small Times (03/10/03); Dukart, James R. "Feeling the Heat" Economist (03/15/03) Vol. 366, No. 8135, P. 29 "Highest Density Nanowire Arrays" Chemical & Engineering News (03/17/03) Vol. 81, No. 11, P. 7; Dagani, Ron http://pubs.acs.org/cen/topstory/8111/8111notw2.html "Industry-Aligning Standards Boost Sensor Networking" Electronic Design (03/03) Vol. 51, No. 5, P. 41; Allan, Roger "Microprocessors March On" Computerworld (03/10/03) Vol. 37, No. 10, P. 25; Anthes, Gary H. "Trends in Tantalum Capacitor Development" Electronic Products (03/03) Vol. 45, No. 10, P. 29; Schau, Tim "Molecular Electronics: Cool Computing" Nature Materials (03/03) Vol. 2, No. 3, P. 134; Hush, Noel "Piggy-Back Chips" Industrial Physicist (03/03) Vol. 9, No. 1, P. 10; Lerner, Eric J. http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-9/iss-1/p10.html "Why Analog Is Cool Again" Wired (03/03) Vol. 11, No. 3, P. 40; Boultin, Paul http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/start.html?pg=8 "Wring Out Better, Faster Results Through System-Level Design" Electronic Design (03/03) Vol. 51, No. 6, P. 51; Gal, Avi; McGarrity, Stuart "GPS Radio IP Design for Cellular Applications" GPS World (02/03) Vol. 14, No. 2, P. 30; Paddan, Paul; Naish, Paul; Phocas, Marino http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=46405 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 ======================================================================== Submission deadlines: --------------------- 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 21-24, 2003 http://www.ieee-cicc.org/ CP 2003 - Intl. Conf. on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland Deadline: April 4, 2003 Conference dates: September 29 - October 3, 2003 http://www.cs.ucc.ie/cp2003/ 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/ SBCCI 2003 -- 16th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design Sao Paulo, Brazil Deadline: April 14, 2003 Symposium Dates: Sept. 8-13, 2003 http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/chipinsampa/ IEEE Micro: Special Issue on Power- and Complexity-Aware Design Deadline: April 15, 2003 http://www.computer.org/micro/articles/m5cfp.pdf ASICON 2003 The 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ASIC Submission deadline: April 15, 2003 Conference date and place: October 21~24, 2003, Beijing, China More information: http://www.cie-china.org/asicon2003 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/ ICCD 2003 - International Conference on Computer Design San Jose, California Deadline: May 2, 2003 Conference dates: October 13-15, 2003 http://www.iccd-conference.org/ Upcoming symposia, conferences and workshops: --------------------------------------------- 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 5-6, 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/ SAT 2003 - Intl. Conf. on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing S. Margherita Ligure - Portofino (Italy) May 5-8, 2003 http://www.mrg.dist.unige.it/events/sat03/ ISCAS 2003 - Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems Bangkok, Thailand May 25-28, 2003 http://www.iscas2003.org/ IWLS 2003 - Intl. Workshop on Logic and Synthesis Laguna Beach, California May 28-30, 2003 http://www.iwls.org/ DAC 2003 - Design Automation Conference Anaheim, California June 2-6, 2003 http://www.dac.com/ 2003 ACM Federated Computing Research Conference INCLUDES: ISCA (architecture), PLDI (languages), SAS (static analysis), SCG (computational geometry), STOC (theory), SPAA (parallel algorithms and architectures), SOFTVIS (visualization), LCTES (tools for embedded systems) San Diego, California June 7-14, 2003 http://www.acm.org/sigs/conferences/fcrc/ ======================================================================== Upcoming Funding Opportunities ------------------------------ NSF PROGRAMS 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 Evaluative Research and Evaluation Capacity Building (EREC) and Research on Learning and Education (ROLE) (EREC/ROLE) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03542/nsf03542.htm Deadline: May 15, 2003 National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03519/nsf03519.html Letter of Intent due (optional): April 7, 2003 Full Proposals: May 16, 2003 Robert Noyce Scholarship Program http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03544/nsf03544.htm Deadline: May 16, 2003 SRC programs Robert M. Burger Fellowship Competition http://www.src.org/member/news/burger_news.asp Deadline: April 30, 2003 DARPA PROGRAMS 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 ======================================================================== There is an Educator's Grant program available to faculty from colleges/universities with high female and/or minority enrollment to attend FCRC '03 in San Diego, CA (http://www.acm.org/fcrc/ ) The grants will cover registration fees at one or more of the constituent conferences of FCRC and up to $1000 of travel and accommodation expenses. The choice of which conference, workshop, and tutorial registrations will be based on the applicant's preferences and a balancing criteria. In addition, there will be a reception for program participants on the evening of Tuesday, June 10th. To be eligible, the applicant must be a faculty member in good standing at a college with high female and/or minority enrollment, actively involved in undergraduate teaching of computer science, and have no other sources of funding to attend FCRC '03. The deadline for applications is April 15, 2003. Travel grant recipients will be notified by May 2, 2003. More information about the program and application materials are available from http://www.acm.org/fcrc/fcrc-grants.htm Funding for the grants comes from the ACM SIG Project Board and the National Science Foundation. ========================================================================= Call for papers: IEEE Computer Special issue on Power-Aware and Temperature-Aware Computing - December 2003 Guest Editors Mircea R. Stan, University of Virginia (mircea@virginia.edu) and Kevin Skadron, University of Virginia (skadron@virginia.edu). Submit pdf documents to computer-ma@computer.org and specify the special issue of Power-Aware and Temperature-Aware Computing. Deadline for paper submission: June 1, 2003 More details at: http://www.ee.Virginia.EDU/~mrs8n/ComputerCFP.html ========================================================================== Call for participation: GLSVLSI 2003 Washington D.C., April 28-29, 2003 The theme of this year's symposium is "VLSI in the Nanometer Era." More details, including a preliminary conference program at: http://www.glsvlsi.org/ Deadline for early conference registration: April 11, 2003 Deadline for hotel reservation: April 5, 2003 ========================================================================== The International Symposium on Physical Design provides a forum to exchange ideas and promote research on critical areas related to the physical design of VLSI systems. All aspects of physical design, from interactions with synthesis to back-end performance analysis, are within the scope of the Symposium. Target domains include semi-custom and full-custom IC, MCM and FPGA based systems. Following its eleven predecessors, the 2003 symposium will highlight key new directions and leading-edge theoretical and experimental contributions to the field. ISPD 2003 is scheduled to take place April 6-9, 2003 in Monterey, California ===========================================================================