======================================================================== SIGDA -- The Resource for EDA Professionals www.sigda.org ======================================================================== 15 July 2003 ACM/SIGDA E-NEWSLETTER Vol. 33, No. 14 ======================================================================== (This ACM/SIGDA E-NEWSLETTER is being sent to all persons on the ACM/SIGDA mailing list. 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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: "Hot Chips Conference Reflects a Changing Industry" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item1 "Pre-Silicon Prototyping for SoC Designs" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item2 "PRAM Poised to Re-enter Memory Race" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item3 "New Memory That Doesn't Forget" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item4 "FPGAs Aim for Economy" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item5 "U.S. Semiconductor Firms Drawing on India to Design Chips" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item6 "Core Vendors Hammer Out USB Interface Issues" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item7 "Heat Becomes Computing's Hottest Topic" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item8 "Electronics Sector Progresses With Breakthroughs in Materials Science" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item9 "Have Diamonds Become Tech's Best Friend?" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item10 "Show Time for ESL Design?" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item11 "Motorola Improves Chip Form" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item12 "Structured ASICs Rescue Endangered Species" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item13 "Research May Crystallize Future of Optical Microchips" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item14 "Titanate Thin Films Becoming a Reality With Crystal Ion Slicing" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item15 "Tensilica's Software Makes Hardware" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item16 "A Second Chance for X-Ray Lithography?" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item17 "Embedded USB Gains Ground" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item18 "DFT Circuit Designers Battle IC, PC-Board Complexities" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item19 "Putting Passives in Their Place" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item20 "The Changing Shape of the RF Microelectronics Landscape" http://www.acm.org/da_technews/articles/2003-1/0710t.html#item21 ======================================================================== Submission deadlines: --------------------- SymCon 2003 - Intl. Workshop on Symmetry in Constraint Satisfaction Problems Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland Deadline: July 23, 2003 Workshop date: September 29, 2003 http://scom.hud.ac.uk/scombms/SymCon03/ DesignCon West 2004 Santa Clara, CA Deadline: August 29, 2003 Symposium dates: Feburary 2-5, 2004 http://www.designcon.com DATE 2004 - Design Automation and Test in Europe Paris, France Deadline: September 7, 2003 Conference dates: February 16-20, 2004 http://www.date-conference.com/ ISSCC 2004 - Intl. Solid State Circuits Conf. San Francisco, CA Deadline: September 8, 2003 Conference dates: February 14-19, 2004 http://www.isscc.org/isscc/ Nanotech 2004 Boston, MA Deadline: September 12, 2003 Conference dates: March 7-11, 2004 http://www.nanotech2004.com/ TAU 2004 - ACM/IEEE Intl. Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems Austin, Texas Deadline: September 19, 2003 Workshop dates: February 2-3, 2004 http://www.tauworkshop.com FPGA 2004 - Intl. Symp. on Field Programmable Gate Arrays Monterey, CA Deadline: September 26, 2003 Symposium dates: February 22-24, 2004 http://fpga2004.ece.ubc.ca/ RAW 2004 - Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop Santa Fe New Mexico, USA Deadline: October 3, 2003 Workshop dates: April 26-27, 2004 http://www.ece.lsu.edu/vaidy/raw04/ ISPD 2004 - Intl. Symp. on Physical Design Phoenix, AZ Deadline: October 17, 2004 Symposium dates: April 18-21, 2004 http://www.ispd.cc/ SLIP 2004 - Intl. Workshop on System Level Interconnect Prediction Paris, France Deadline: November 11, 2003 Workshop dates: February 14-15, 2004 http://www.sliponline.org/ DAC 2004 - Design Automation Conference San Diego, CA Deadline: November 24, 2003 Conference dates: June 7-11, 2004 http://www.dac.com/ Cool Chips IV Yokohama, Japan Deadline: January 27, 2003 Symposium dates: April 16 - 18, 2003 http://www.coolchips.org/ EDPS 2004 - IEEE Workshop on Electronic Design Processes Monterey, CA Deadline: February 15, 2004 Workshop dates: April 25-27, 2004 http://www.eda.org/edps/edp04 Upcoming symposia, conferences and workshops: --------------------------------------------- Hot Chips Palo Alto, CA Conference dates: Aug 17-19, 2003 http://www.hotchips.org/ ISLPED 2003 - Intl. Symp. on Low Power Electronics Seoul, Korea Symposium dates: August 25-27, 2003 http://poppy.snu.ac.kr/~islped/ Intl. Conf. on Parallel & Distr. Computing Klagenfurt, Austria Conference dates: August 26-29, 2003 http://europar-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/ Field Programmable Logic Conf. (FPL) Lisbon, Portugal Conference dates: September 1-3, 2003 http://fpl.org/ Euro-MICRO 2003 Antalya, Turkey Conference dates: September 3-5, 2003 http://www.sea.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/eu2003/ Int. Symp. on Formal Methods in Europe Pisa, Italy Symposium dates: September 8-14, 2003 http://matrix.iei.pi.cnr.it/FMT/FME/fme-cfp.htm Int. Workshop. on Power & Timing Modeling, Optimization & Simulation (PATMOS) Torino, Italy Workshop dates: September 9-12, 2003 http://eda.polito.it/patmos03/ Formal Methods for Globally Async Locally Sync (GALS) Architecture Pisa, Italy Workshop dates: September 13-15, 2003 http://fermat.ece.vt.edu/fmgals03/ European Solid State Ckts & Devices Research Conferences Estorel, Portugal Conference dates: September 16-18, 2003 http://www.chipidea.com/esscirc2003 http://www.chipidea.com/essderc2003 IEEE System on Chip Conf (SOC) Portland, OR Conference dates: September 17-20, 2003 http://www.ieee-soc.org/ Custom IC Conf (CICC) San Jose, CA Conference dates: September 21-24, 2003 http://www.ieee-cicc.org/ Forum on Specification & Design Lang's(FDL) Frankfurt, Germany Forum dates: Septmeber 23-26, 2003 http://www3.cti.ac.at/ecsi/ecsi/fdl/fdl02/call_fdl03.pdf CP 2003 - Intl. Conf. on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland Conference dates: September 29 - October 3, 2003 http://www.cs.ucc.ie/cp2003/ International Test Conference (ITC) Charlotte, NC Conference dates: September 30 - October 2, 2003 http://www.itctestweek.org/ Hardware/Software Co-Design (CODES) Newport Beach, CA Conference dates: October 1-3, 2003 http://www.ece.uci.edu/~codes/ ESTIMedia 2003 - First Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia Newport Beach, California, USA (co-located with CODES-ISSS) Conference dates: October 3-4, 2003 http://www.idt.mdh.se/estimedia/ Int. Conf Computer Design(ICCD) San Jose, CA Conference dates: October 13-15, 2003 http://www.iccd-conference.org/ Int. Conf Computer-Aided Design(ICCAD) San Jose, CA Conference dates: November 9-12, 2003 http://www.iccad.com/ Intl. Conf. on VLSI Integration of SoC Darmstadt, Germany Conference dates: December 1-3, 2003 http://www.tu-darmstdt.de/VSLI2003 ICECS - Intl Conf Electronics Circuits and Systems Sharajah, Unit Arab Emirates Conference dates: December 14-17, 2003 http://www.icecs2003.org VLSI Design 2004 Mumbai, India Conference dates: January 5-9, 2003 http://vlsi.nj.nec.com/~chak/vlsi2003/ SODA 2004 --- ACM Symp. on Discrete Algorithms New Orleans, LA Symposium dates: January 11-13, 2004 http://www.siam.org/meetings/da04/ ASPDAC 2004 - Asia-South Pacific Design Automation Conf. Yokohama, Japan Conference dates: January 27-30, 2003 http://www.aspdac.com/ ======================================================================== Upcoming Funding Opportunities ------------------------------ NSF PROGRAMS Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02111/nsf02111.htm Deadline: July 22, 2003 Digital Government http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02156/nsf02156.htm#TOC Deadline date : October 08, 2003 Design Automation for Micro and Nano Systems http://www.cise.nsf.gov/fndg/pubs/display2.cfm?pgm_pims_id=5202&pgm_supp_id=&loc=ccr&pub_id=5414&div=ccr Deadline: November 1, 2003 SRC programs Cross-disciplinary Semiconductor Research (CSR) http://www.src.org/fr/2003CSR_RFP.asp Deadline: September 5, 2003 DARPA programs Broad Agency Announcement in Joint Support of the Technical Support Working Group and Defense Advanced Research Projects http://www.darpa.mil/baa/03-Q-4110.htm Deadline: July 25, 2003 3-D Micro Electromagnetic Radio Frequency Systems (3-D MERFS) http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa03-27.htm Closing Date: August 12, 2003 Three Dimensional (3-D) Electronics http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa03-25.htm Closing Date: October 17, 2003 ======================================================================== 2003 SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award New Deadline: August 1, 2003 SUMMARY The SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award recognizes a junior faculty member early in her or his academic career who demonstrates outstanding potential as an educator and/or researcher in the field of electronic design automation. While prior research and/or teaching accomplishments are important, the selection committee will especially consider the impact that the candidate has had on her or his department and on the EDA field during the initial years of their academic appointment. The award is expected to be presented annually at ICCAD, and consists of a $10,000 grant and a citation. ELIGIBILITY Outstanding new faculty who are developing academic careers in areas in or related to electronic design automation are encouraged to apply for this award. Note that this award is not intended for senior or highly experienced investigators who have already established independent research careers, even if they are new to academia. Candidates must have recently completed at least one full academic year and no more than four full academic years in a tenure-track position. Applications will also be considered from people whose appointments are continuing (non-visiting) positions with substantial educational responsibilities regardless whether or not they are tenure track. Persons holding research-only positions are not eligible. Exceptions to the timing requirements will be made for persons who have interrupted their academic careers for substantive reasons, such as family or medical leave. The presence of such reasons must be attested by the sponsoring institution, but no explanation is needed. APPLICATION Candidates applying for the award must submit the following to the selection committee no later than August 1, 2003: (1) a 2-page statement summarizing the candidate's teaching and research accomplishments since beginning their current academic position, as well as an indication of plans for further development over the next five years; (2) a copy of a current curriculum vitae; (3) a letter from either the candidate's department chair or dean endorsing the application. Application packets (preferably as email attachments in pdf) should be sent to: Professor Nikil Dutt Center for Embedded Computer Systems 444 CS, University of California at Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 email: dutt@uci.edu phone: 949-824-7219 ======================================================================== CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2002-2003 ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation Submission Deadline: Aug 8, 2003 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 requirements, 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 2003 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, 2001 and June 30, 2003. * 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 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 ======================================================================== CODES/ISSS Merged Conference Oct.1-3, 2003 Advance registration deadline: Friday, August 29th Marriott Hotel, Newport Beach, CA http://www.ece.uci.edu/~codes/ Sponsors: IEEE CS and CAS; ACM SIGDA, SIGBED and SIGSOFT, IFIP, Cal(IT)2 Merger of Int. Symp. on Hardware/Software Codesign and Int. Symp. on System Synthesis. The CODES+ISSS Conference is the merger of two major international symposia on hardware/software codesign and system synthesis. High-quality papers will be presented along with panels on the future of codesign and system synthesis and on network on chip, best practices sessions by industry experts, and drivers in systems research from a funding agencies perspective. Technical topics include: architectural exploration; system simulation; advances in system modeling, support for real-time, OS services, scheduling; performance estimation; compiler optimizations for power and performance; case studies; verification and analysis; and innovative topics. The conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel in scenic Newport Beach, CA. ========================================================================