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Submission Deadline extended to March 19, 2001

10th International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis

Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: March 12, 2001

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 to only IWLS participants. The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and it is in-cooperation with ACM/SIGDA.

The workshop format includes short talks, posters, a panel discussion, and a social evening gathering. To further simulate 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 include but are not limited to:

  • Architecture & Compiling
  • Synthesis & Optimization
  • Power & Timing Analysis
  • Validation & Verification
  • Design experiences

    • for transistor, logic, RTL, behavioral HDL, architecture, and hardware/software systems. The topics of interest span both syncronous and asynchronous domains in all technologies including: CMOS, ECL, GaAS, ECL, and Adiabatic.

    PAPER SUBMISSION:
    Submission deadline
    		 March 12, 2001
    Notice of acceptance
    		 April 16, 2001
    Final version due
    		 May 7, 2001

    Authors may submit extended abstracts for their proposed presentation. These must be no less than 1000 words and no greater than 2500 words (5 pages). 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:
    Travel grants may be obtained by applying to ACM/SIGDA's travel grant program at http://www.sigda.acm.org/Programs/TravelGrant/

    WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION:

    General Chair:                T. Kam (Intel)
    Program Chair:               S. Hassoun (Tufts)
    Panel Chair:                    D. Marculescu (CMU)
    Focus Group Chair:        S. Nowick (Columbia)
    Benchmark Chairs:         A. Kuehlmann (Cadence) and A. Reis (UFRGS, Brazil)
     Program Committee:
                            P. Ashar (NEC)
                            I. Bahar (Brown University)
                            L. Benini (Universita' di Bologna)
                            M. Berkelaar (Magma Design Automation)
                            R. Brayton (U.C. Berkeley)
                            M. Fujita (Fujitsu Labs of America)
                            W. Kunz (University of Frankfurt)
                            L. Lavagno (Universita' di Udine)
                            C. Meinel (University of Trier)
                            Y. Matsunaga (Fujitsu Labs of Japan)
                            R. Murgai (Fujitsu Labs of America)
                            J. Monteiro (Univ. Tecnica de Lisboa)
                            M. Pedram (Univ. Southern California)
                            T. Sasao (Kyushu Inst. of Technology)
                            H. Savoj (Magma Design Automation)
                            E. Sentovich (Cadence Berkeley Labs)
                            N. Shenoy (Synopsys)
                            L. Stok (IBM)