=============================================================================== SIGDA -- The Resource for EDA Professionals http://www.sigda.org This newsletter is a free service for current SIGDA members and is added automatically with a new SIGDA membership. Circulation: 2,700 =============================================================================== 15 February 2008 ACM/SIGDA E-NEWSLETTER Vol. 38, No. 4 Online archive: http://www.sigda.org/newsletter =============================================================================== Contents of this E-NEWSLETTER: (1) SIGDA News Contributing author: Soheil Ghiasi Contributing author: Matthew Guthaus Contributing author: Umit Y Ogras Contributing author: Marc Riedel Contributing author: Lin Yuan (2) What Is Timing-Closure In High-End FPGAs? From: By Angela Sutton and Jeff Garrison, Synplicity (3) Paper Submission Deadlines From: Debjit Sinha (4) Upcoming Conferences and Symposia From: Debjit Sinha (5) Upcoming Funding Opportunities From: Qinru Qiu (6) ACM Names 2007 A.M. Turing Award Winners From: ACM (7) Call For Papers: Hot Chips 20 From: Alan Smith =============================================================================== Dear ACM/SIGDA members, Recently proposed changes to the SIGDA bylaws were approved by the ACM SIG Governing Board Executive Committee. Under recently approved procedural changes by the SGB, certain minor changes in bylaws can be approved by the SGB EC and sent on to the ACM Executive committee for approval without a formal vote of the membership. However, SIGDA members have 30 days to register any objections. If at least 3% of SIGDA members object, then the bylaws changes must be voted on by the entire membership. Any challenges can be sent to Donna Cappo, Director of SIG Services at: cappo@hq.acm.org and must be received two weeks from today (by 03/07/08). Summary of changes: * The members of the EC will include the Chair, and Chairs for Awards, Conferences, Technical Activities, Educational Activities, Communications, and Finance; one of the named Chairs will also be a Vice-Chair. The Past Chair is not an elected official and may fill one of the named Chair positions. * The officers are elected for three-year terms beginning July 1 of 2009. No extension of terms shall be allowed. * If the Past Chair does not wish to fill one of the named Chair positions, a seventh EC member will be selected from the slate and the Past Chair will have an ex-officio position on the Advisory Board. Current SIGDA bylaws can be viewed at : http://www.acm.org/sigs/bylaws-contents/da_bylaws/ Proposed bylaws: http://www.sigda.org/proposed_bylaws.doc Diana Marculescu, Chair, ACM SIGDA; Qing Wu, E-Newsletter Editor; Matthew Guthaus, E-Newsletter Associate Editor; Marc Riedel, E-Newsletter Associate Editor; Debjit Sinha, E-Newsletter Associate Editor; Qinru Qiu, E-Newsletter Associate Editor; Lin Yuan, E-Newsletter Associate Editor; Soheil Ghiasi, E-Newsletter Associate Editor; =============================================================================== SIGDA News ----------------------- "Intel, Micron Tip NAND Interface Breakthrough" http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206101519 Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. have unveiled a high-speed and souped-up NAND flash-memory interface technology that is said to boost the data transfer rates by up to five times over current devices. "India's Fab City Investment to Top $7 Billion as Focus Moves to Solar" http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206800125 The Indian government has approved an additional five companies to take part in projects in Fab City, a proposed semiconductor manufacturing location near Hyderabad. This would take the total investment in Fab City to $7 billion. "Claiming Parallels, EDA Vets Bet on New Drug Development" http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206106869 Citing similarities, EDA industry veterans say techniques used for chip design can be adopted for new drug discovery and development. While the results of applying EDA tools to drug discovery may take awhile, proponents here argue that the technology could speed development of new drugs to fight disease. "Intel, NEC to Develop Power Management ICs" http://www.edn.com/article/CA6528477.html?industryid=47037 To combine power management, logic, audio and communications functions in a single chip, chip giant Intel Corp has teamed with Kawasaki, Japan-based NEC Electronics Corp and its US subsidiary, NEC Electronics America Inc on power management ICs (PMICs) optimized for mobile Internet devices (MIDs). "DARPA Seeks University Research Funding to Extend CMOS" http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206106350 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) is seeking an additional $20 million in fiscal 2009 for semiconductor research at U.S. universities. According to budget documents and an industry group, the new Darpa budget request would be fund research within the a university program established nearly a decade ago called the Focus Center Research Program. "First GHz Chip to Be Interconnected With Nanotubes" http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206504064 The world's first CMOS circuit using nanotubes as an interconnect was recently designed at Stanford University, in cooperation with Toshiba Corp. I t was fabricated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC). The 256 ring oscillators on the 11,000- transistor chip ran at 1 GHz, rivaling the speed of other advanced CMOS chips (the iPhone's processor runs at 700 MHz). "Fast Virtual Platforms Open Up Multicore Software Development" http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206107056 As research pushes for better programming models for multiprocessor and multicore (MC) embedded systems, virtual platforms solve one of today's biggest challenges in these systems: software debugging and validation. In addition to enabling software development long before hardware availability, virtual platforms are a practical enabler for MC systems today by their provision of better software development and debugging support than actual hardware. "Wii to Trump PS3, Xbox 360 as Leading Video-Game Console" http://www.edn.com/article/CA6532510.html?industryid=47037 The Nintendo Wii is expected to overcome Microsoft.s Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 to become the new-generation video-game console with the world's largest installed base in 2008, thanks to interest from casual gamers, iSuppli reports. Still, hard-core users aren't going away, and the market research company estimates that in 2011, the installed base of the PS3 will once again exceed that of the Wii. "Intel Accused of Patent Infringement In Core 2 Duo By Wisconsin Tech Transfer Office" http://www.edn.com/article/CA6530464.html?industryid=47037 Technology transfer office Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) announced Wednesday it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Intel Corp for alleged patent infringement of a University of Wisconsin-Madison invention that significantly improves the efficiency and speed of computer processing. "Multicore Puts Screws to Parallel-Programming Models" http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206504466 Leaders in mainstream computing are intensifying efforts to find a parallel-programming model to feed the multicore processors already on chip makers' drawing boards. Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have awarded an estimated $10 million, five-year grant to help fund a new Parallel Computing Lab at the University of California at Berkeley, with 14 faculty members initially involved. As many as 20 universities, including MIT, Stanford and the University of Illinois, competed for funding. "Thin-Films Hold Promise For Implantable Pharmacies-On-a-Chip" http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206504429 Thin-films are enabling implantable pharmacies-on-a-chip that use electric fields to dispense drugs on-demand, rather than depend on patients remembering to take their meds. The implants could also be located directly at the site where they are needed; for instance, automatically dispensing cancer drugs at a surgery site when active circuitry on the chip senses that an excised tumor starts to regrow. "Biologists Use Computers To Study Bacterial Cell Division" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080124233635.htm A group of computational biologists at Virginia Tech have created a mathematical model of the process that regulates cell division in a common bacterium, confirming hypotheses, providing new insights, identifying gaps in what is understood so far, and demonstrating the role of computation in biology. "Computational Science: A Hard Statistical View" http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7179/full/451639a.html The sheer number of variables and logical conditions makes some computing problems seem intractable. Statistical physics, normally used to study huge groups of interacting particles, can supply powerful tools to crack them. "Life, But Not As We Know It" http://www.biotechnews.com.au/index.php/id;1710915636 To paraphrase Star Trek medic Dr James McCoy: it's life, Jim, but not as we know it. It's obviously intelligently designed. Professor Chris Voigt's living inventions include microorganisms programmed with DNA-coded logic and operational circuits. He has equipped bacteria with genetic machinery to synthesise and secrete super-strong spider silk, and developed bacterial compounds to seek out, invade and destroy cancers. "IC Verification Key: 'Do It Step By Step, Don't Cut Corners'" http://www.edn.com/article/CA6530368.html The EDA industry hasn't come up with a silver bullet to reduce the amount of functional verification IC engineers need to perform to get chips out the door in a timely manner, but a DesignCon panel advises adherence to a strict methodology to better your chances of producing chips that avoid respins. =============================================================================== What Is Timing-Closure In High-End FPGAs? ------------------------------------------- http://www.pldesignline.com/205917199 By By Angela Sutton and Jeff Garrison, Synplicity ============================================================================== Paper Submission Deadlines: ---------------------------- ICICDT'08 - Int'l Conference on IC Design & Technology Minatec in Grenoble, France Jun 2-4, 2008 Deadline: Feb 29, 2008 http://www.icicdt.org/ ISLPED'08 - Int'l Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design Bangalore, India Aug, 2008 Deadline: Mar 3, 2008 http://www.islped.org/ MWSCAS'08 - Int'l Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems Knoxville, TN Aug 10-13, 2008 Deadline: Mar 12, 2008 http://www.eecs.utk.edu/mwscas/ FPL'08 - Int'l Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications Heidelberg, Germany Sep 8-10, 2008 Deadline: Mar 16, 2008 http://fpl.org/ IWLS'08 - Int'l Workshop on Logic & Synthesis San Diego, CA Jun 4-6, 2008 Deadline: Mar 19, 2008 http://www.iwls.org/ SBCCI 2008 - 21st Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design (25 years edition) Gramado, Brazil Sep 1-7, 2008 Deadline: Mar 24, 2008 http://www.sbc.org.br/sbcci PACT'08 - Int'l Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques Toronto, Canada Oct 25-29, 2008 Deadline: Mar 28, 2008 http://www.pactconf.org/ ESWEEK'08 - Embedded Systems Week (CASES, CODES+ISSS, and EMSOFT) Atlanta, GA Oct 19-24, 2008 Deadline: Apr 14, 2008 http://www.esweek.org/ ICM'08 - Int'l Conference on Microelectronics (technically co-sponsored by IEEE-VSATC) Sharjah, UAE December 14-16, 2008 Deadline: May 1, 2008 http://www.ieee-icm.com/ ASP-DAC'09 - Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (sponsored by SIGDA) Yokohama, Japan Jan 19-22, 2009 Deadline: July 14, 2008 http://www.aspdac.com/aspdac2009/ ============================================================================== Upcoming Symposia, Conferences and Workshops: --------------------------------------------- ISSCC'08 - Int'l Solid-State Circuits Conference San Francisco, CA Feb 3-7, 2008 http://isscc.org/isscc/ LATW'08 - Latin-American Test Workshop Puebla, Mexico Feb 17-20, 2008 http://www-elec.inaoep.mx/latw2008/ FPGA'08 Int'l Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (sponsored by SIGDA) Monterey, California Feb 24-26, 2008 http://www.isfpga.org TAU'08 - Int'l Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems (Sponsored by SIGDA) Monterey, CA Feb 25-26, 2008 http://www.tauworkshop.com/ DATE'08 - Design Automation and Test in Europe (sponsored by SIGDA) Munich, Germany Mar 10-14, 2008 http://www.date-conference.com/ ISQED'08 - Int'l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design San Jose, CA Mar 17-19, 2008 http://www.isqed.org/ SPL'08 - Southern Conference on Programmable Logic Bariloche-Patagonia, Argentina Mar 26-28, 2008 http://www.splconf.org/ SLIP'08 - Int'l Workshop on System Level Interconnect Prediction Newcastle, UK Apr 5-6, 2008 http://www.sliponline.org/ ISVLSI'08 - Annual Symposium on VLSI Montpellier, France Apr 7-9, 2008 http://www.lirmm.fr/isvlsi2008/ ASYNC'08: Int'l Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems Newcastle, UK Apr 7-11, 2008 http://async.org.uk/async2008/ NOCS'08 - Int'l Symposium on Networks-on-Chips Newcastle, UK Apr 7-11, 2008 http://async.org.uk/nocs2008/ RCE'08 - Reconfigurable Computing Education Montpellier, France Apr 10, 2008 http://helios.informatik.uni-kl.de/RCeducation08/ ISPD'08 - Int'l Symposium on Physical Design (sponsored by SIGDA) Portland, OR Apr 13-16, 2008 http://www.ispd.cc/ RAW'08 - Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop Miami, FL Apr 14-15, 2008 http://www.ece.lsu.edu/vaidy/raw/ RFID'08 - Conference on RFID Las Vegas, NV Apr 16-17, 2008 http://www.ieee-rfid.org/ GLSVLSI'08 - Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (Sponsored by SIGDA) Orlando, FL May 4-6, 2008 http://www.glsvlsi.org/ ISCAS'08 - Int'l Symposium on Circuits and Systems Seattle, WA May 18-21, 2008 http://iscas2008.org/ EWME'08 - European Workshop on Microelectronics Education Budapest, Hungary May 28-30, 2008 http://www.eet.bme.hu/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=160 RSP'08 - Int'l Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping Monterey, CA Jun 2-5, 2008 http://www.rsp-workshop.org/ ICAC'08 - Int'l Conference on Autonomic Computing Chicago, IL Jun 2-6, 2008 http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~icac2008/ MEMOCODE'08 - Int'l Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (sponsored by SIGDA) Anaheim, CA Jun 5-7, 2008 http://svl1.cs.pdx.edu/memocode08/ DAC'08 - Design Automation Conference (sponsored by SIGDA) Anaheim, CA Jun 9-13, 2008 http://www.dac.com/ ACSD'08 - Int'l Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (sponsored by SIGDA) Xi.an, China June 23-27, 2008 http://ictt.xidian.edu.cn/acsd2008/Pages/ACSD_main.jsp CAV'08 - Int'l Conference on Computer Aided Verification Princeton, PA Jul 7-14, 2007 http://www.princeton.edu/cav2008/ ============================================================================== Upcoming Funding Opportunities ------------------------------- DOC Electronics and Electrical Engineering (EEEL) Grants Program Deadline: June 15, 2008 http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=357011418945+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve Microsoft Power Aware Computing Deadline: March 11, 2008 http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/rfps/PowerAware_RFP.aspx Safe and Scalable Multicore Computing Deadline: March 13, 2008 http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/rfps/SafeScalableMulticore_RFP.aspx SRC GRC Research in Verification Deadline: February 26, 2008, 3 p.m. ET http://grc.src.org/fr/S200802_Call.asp Packard Foundation, David and Lucille Fellowships for Science and Engineering Deadline: March 15, 2008 http://www.packard.org/genericDetails.aspx?RootCatID=3&CategoryID=152 James S. McDonnell Foundation Studying Complex Systems - 21st Century Science Collaborative Activity Deadline: continuous http://www.jsmf.org/programs/cs/ DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) (DE-PS02-08ER08-01) Deadline: September 30, 2008 http://www.science.doe.gov/grants/FAPN08-01.html DOD Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (CT2WS) Deadline: April 11, 2008 http://fedbizopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=20070412a1 Modeling and Simulation for Information Systems Research Deadline: FY 09 should be submitted by June 1, 2008 FY 10 should be submitted by June 1, 2009 http://fedbizopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=20061030a9 Military Networking Technology for Global Information Exchange (GIE) Deadline: Continuous until September, 2008 http://fedbizopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=20040909a11 Enabling Technologies for Modeling and Simulation (BAA-03-12-IFKA) Deadline: September 30, 2008 http://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/AFRLRRS/BAA-03-12-IFKA/Modification%2005.html SPINS in Semiconductors Deadline: December 31, 2008 http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/57993 Artificial Intelligence Technologies Deadline: December 31, 2008 http://heron.nrl.navy.mil/contracts/baa.htm Quantum Information Science and Technology Deadline: December 31, 2008 http://heron.nrl.navy.mil/contracts/0708baa/baa.htm Microsystems Technology Office-Wide Deadline: January 14, 2009 http://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/BAA07-18/Attachments.html Warrior Systems Technologies - Body-Worn Systems, Hand Held Devices, and Smart-Lightweight Electronic Components/Modules for Soldier Protection, Knowledge Management and Cognitive Improvement Deadline: Continuous. (April 1, 2007 ~ March 31, 2009) https://www3.natick.army.mil/ssbaa.htm Joint National Training Capability Broad Agency Announcement Deadline: May 14, 2009 http://www.ntsc.navy.mil/Ebusiness/BusOps/Acquisitions/Index.cfm?RND=220990 TRADOC FOC-03-06: Situational Understanding Deadline: Continuous until August 26, 2009 https://abop.monmouth.army.mil/baas.nsf/1f6c118700adf19d85256d3d0051f9a2/31926e7d7d4b2e9285256f6d0056ce06?OpenDocument BAA for Simulation and Training Technology R&D Deadline: Continuous until December 31, 2010 http://www.ntsc.navy.mil/EBusiness/BusOps/Acquisitions/Index.cfm?RND=868451 Army Research Office (ARO) Broad Agency Announcement for Basic and Applied Scientific Research (W911NF-07-R-0003) Deadline: Continuous through September 30, 2011 http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?Action=6&Page=8 ARL/ARO Core Broad Agency Announcement for Basic and Applied Scientific Research for Fiscal Years 2007 through 2011 (W911NF-07-R-0001) Deadline: Continuous through September 30, 2011 http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?Action=6&Page=8 High Density Optical Memory Deadline: Continuous http://www.afosr.af.mil/pdfs/afosr_baa_2007_1.pdf Quantum Electronic Solids Deadline: Continuous http://www.afosr.af.mil/pdfs/afosr_baa_2007_1.pdf Distributed Intelligence Deadline: Continuous http://www.afosr.af.mil/pdfs/afosr_baa_2007_1.pdf Sensory System (AFOSR BAA 2007-1) Deadline: Continuous http://www.afosr.af.mil/pdfs/afosr_baa_2007_1.pdf Software and Systems Deadline: Continuous http://www.afosr.af.mil/research.htm NSF Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation (EMT) Deadline: March 13, 2008 http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503220&org=CISE&from=home Assembling the Tree of Life (ATOL) Deadline: March 14, 2008 http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5129&org=CISE&from=home Theoretical Foundations 2008 (TF08) Deadline: March 31, 2008 http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500026&org=CISE&from=home Petascale Computing Resource Allocations (PRAC) - NSF 08-529 Deadline: March 31, 2008 http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08529/nsf08529.htm High End Computing University Research Activity (HECURA) - NSF 08-531 Deadline: April 8, 2008 http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08531/nsf08531.htm Computer Systems Research (CSR) Program - NSF 08-538 Deadline: April 23, 2008 http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08538/nsf08538.htm Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) Deadline: April 24, 2008 http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12759&org=CISE&from=home Expeditions in Computing Deadline: Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required): July 10, 2008 July 10, Annually Thereafter Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (required): September 10, 2008 September 10, Annually Thereafter http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07592/nsf07592.htm Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure (STCI) Deadline: August 14, 2008 http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500066 Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) Deadline: February 26, 2008 October 30, 2008 http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5147&org=CISE&from=home High Performance Computing Acquisition: Towards a Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering - NSF 05-625 Deadline: November 28, 2008 http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05625/nsf05625.htm =============================================================================== ACM Names 2007 A.M. Turing Award Winners --------------------------- ACM has named Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis the recipients of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award for their original and continuing research in a quality assurance process known as Model Checking. Their innovations transformed the approach from a theoretical technique to a highly effective verification technology that enables computer hardware and software engineers to find errors efficiently in complex system designs, thus increasing the assurance that the systems perform as intended by the designers. Clarke of Carnegie Mellon University, and Emerson of the University of Texas at Austin, working together, and Sifakis, working independently for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the University of Grenoble in France, developed this fully automated approach that is now the most widely used verification method in the hardware and software industries. The Turing Award, first presented in 1966, and named for British mathematician Alan M. Turing, is widely considered the "Nobel Prize in Computing." It carries a $250,000 prize, with financial support provided by Intel Corporation and Google Inc. ACM will present the Turing Award at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on June 21, 2008, in San Francisco, CA. For additional information on the A.M. Turing Award, visit: http://awards.acm.org/turing =============================================================================== Call For Papers: HOT CHIPS 20 ----------------------------- HOT CHIPS 20: A Symposium on HighPerformance Chips Stanford University Palo Alto, California August 2426, 2008 AUTHOR'S SCHEDULE Deadline for submissions: March 24, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2008 Deadline for final version: July 2, 2008 AREAS OF INTEREST: * General Purpose Processor Chips: Low-Power, High-Performance, Multi-Core, Multi-Processor Technologies, interconnect, programming models, compilers, runtime systems, * Other Chips: Novel Technology: Quantum Computing, NanoStructures, Micro-Arrays, Low-power chips/Dynamic Power Management, Communication/Networking, Chipsets, Wireless LAN/Wireless WAN, FPGAs and FPGA Based Systems, Display Technology * ApplicationSpecific / Embedded Processors: Systems-on-Chip, Mobile Phone, Digital Signal Processing, Network/Security, Graphics/Multimedia/Game * Software: Compiler technology, Operating System/Chip Interaction, Performance Evaluation * Other Technologies: Advanced Packaging Technology, Reliability and Design for Test, Advanced Semiconductor Process Technology AUTHOR INFORMATION AND FORMAT Presentations at HOT CHIPS are in the form of 30minute talks in the form of PowerPoint or .PDF. Presentation slides will be published in the HOT CHIPS Proceedings. Participants are not required to submit written papers, but a select group will be invited to submit a paper for inclusion in a special issue of IEEE Micro. Submissions must consist of a title, extended abstract (two pages maximum.), and the presenter's contact information (name, affiliation, job title, address, phone(s), fax, and email). Please indicate whether you have submitted, intend to submit, or have already presented or published a similar or overlapping submission to another conference or journal. Also indicate if you would like the submission to be held confidential. Submissions are evaluated by the Program Committee on the basis of performance of the device(s), degree of innovation, use of advanced technology, potential market significance, and anticipated interest to the audience. Research and software contributions will be evaluated with similar criteria. Please submit your extended abstract by March 24, 2008 via: https://www.softconf.com/starts/hotchips20 Authors will be notified as to acceptance by May 1, 2008. Send questions relating to the program to the program chairs at: program2008@hotchips.org and questions relating to conference operation or organization to the general chair, Don Draper at: info2008@hotchips.org Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Microprocessors and Microcomputers of the IEEE Computer Society and the Solid State Circuits Society. Program Committee CoChairs Christos Kozyrakis Stanford JanWillem van de Waerdt NXP Semiconductors Check the HOT CHIPS 20 web page for updates: http://www.hotchips.org ============================================================================== Notice to Authors By submitting your contributions to ACM SIGDA, you acknowledge that they contain only your own work (minor edits by others are allowed) and are not subject to third-party licenses and copyrights. 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