[These are hard deadlines; no later submissions will be accepted]
The IEEE International Workshop on Logic Synthesis provides an international forum to promote research and exchange ideas about all aspects of IC synthesis, optimization, and verification. The workshop encourages early dissemination of ideas and results. Accepted papers are distributed only to IWLS participants. The workshop is co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM/SIGDA.
The workshop format includes short talks, posters, a panel discussion, and a social evening gathering. To further stimulate interaction among participants, there will be exercises in "collaborative problem solving". Attendees will be divided into groups, each tackling a challenging problem submitted through the web and selected by the focus group chair. The EDA community is encouraged to submit possible logic and synthesis problems through http://www.iwls.org/problems/. Examples of problems will be available at the web site in early January.
Topics of interest range across a variety of system description levels, from hardware/software, through behavioral, architectural, RTL, logic-level and transistor-level. Topics include, but are not limited to:
These topics span both synchronous and asynchronous domains in all technologies, including: CMOS, GaAS, ECL, and Adiabatic.Architectures & compilation Synthesis & optimization Power & timing analysis Design validation & verification Design experiences
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Submission deadline
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March 22, 2002 (7pm EST); submit title + authors by March 20 (7pm EST) |
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Notice of acceptance
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April 15, 2002 |
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Final version due
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May 8, 2002 |
Authors should submit extended abstracts for their proposed presentation. These must be no less than 1000 words and no greater than 2500 words (5 pages double column, 10pt font). These abstracts are not intended to be complete papers, but rather should contain the idea of the proposed presentation. We encourage submissions in the early stages of research which may highlight important new problems without necessarily providing complete solutions. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. See http://www.iwls.org for submission details. For questions, contact program_chair@iwls.org.
Travel grants may be obtained by applying to ACM/SIGDA's travel grant
program at http://www.sigda.acm.org/Programs/TravelGrant/
General Chair: Soha Hassoun (Tufts University)I. Bahar (Brown University)
Program Chair: Steven Nowick (Columbia University)
Panel Chair: D. Marculescu (CMU)
Focus Group Chair: Y. Kukimoto (Silicon Perspective)
Benchmark Chair: A. Kuehlmann (Cadence)
Audio-Visual Chair: A. Mishchenko (Portland State University)Technical Program Committee: