Follow Us
DAC 2013 AUSTIN, TX | JUNE 2-6

2012 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

DAC’s technical program offers the best-in-class solutions that promise to advance Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Embedded Systems and Software (ESS).

DAC 2012 is seeking submissions that deal with design technologies and algorithms, addressing all aspects of electronic design across several submission categories.

Submission Categories: In addition to well established EDA and ESS subjects, special focus areas in 2012 include embedded software and architectures, multi-core, security, virtualization, energy harvesting, emerging devices, cloud computing, parallelization, 3-D, design for manufacturability, cyber-physical systems, bio interfaces, bio sensors, and bio design automation.

Call for Contributions PDF

    DAC invites submissions in the following categories:

    User Track Extended Abstracts - CLOSED

    Sponsored by:


    ABSTRACT SUBMISSION - CLOSED

    The User Track addresses practical and pressing issues facing IC designers, application engineers, and design-flow developers.

    “Work-In-Progress” (WIP) Abstracts - Submission site is Closed

    View Work-In-Progress (WIP) Submission

    SUBMISSIONS DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) March 12, 2012

    In contrast to other tracks at DAC, Work-In-Progress track aims to provide authors an opportunity for early feedback on work-in-progress or to share early results.

    Workshop Proposals - CLOSED

    View Workshop Submission

    PROPOSALS DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) January 19, 2012

    DAC invites you to organize a workshop on topics related to design, design methodologies, and design automation.

    DAC workshops are considered a central part of DAC’s technical program and span anywhere from two to nine hours.

    Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Research Manuscripts - CLOSED

    View EDA Research Manuscript Submission

    ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) November 29, 2011- CLOSED
    MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION: DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) December 5, 2011-CLOSED

    DAC's technical program offers the best-in-class solutions that promise to advance Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Embedded Systems and Software (ESS)

    DAC is seeking submissions that deal with design technologies and algorithms, addressing all aspects of electronic design across several submission categories

    All EDA research manuscripts that do not adhere to the submission rules will not be considered for submission.

    Embedded Systems and Software (ESS) Research Manuscripts - CLOSED

    View ESS Research Manuscript Submission

    ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) November 29, 2011 - CLOSED
    MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION: DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) December 5, 2011 - CLOSED

    The ESS Track at DAC 2011 was a huge hit, resulting in more over 33% ESS-relevant technical content Research submissions on all aspects of ESS are encouraged.

    All EDA research manuscripts that do not adhere to the submission rules will not be considered for submission.

    Perspective Manuscripts - CLOSED

    View Perspective Manuscript Submission

    ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) November 29, 2011- CLOSED
    MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION: DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, -07:00 GMT)December 5, 2011- CLOSED

    New! DAC is soliciting a new class of manuscripts that do not necessarily require original research content. The purpose of this category is to provide a forum for valuable, but non-traditional content for the DAC program.

    All Perspective research manuscripts that do not adhere to the submission rules will not be considered for submission.

    “Wild and Crazy Ideas” (WACI) Short Manuscripts - CLOSED

    View Wild and Crazy Ideas (WACI) Submission

    ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) November 29, 2011- CLOSED
    MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION: DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) December 5 , 2011-CLOSED

    The aim of WACI is to promote revolutionary and way-out ideas that do not fit the conventional mold, that inspire discussion among conference attendees, that create a buzz, and that get people talking.

    See 2011 WACI videos

    Special Session Proposals - CLOSED

    View Special Session Submission

    PROPOSALS DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) November 20, 2011

    A special session is devoted to a topic of strong contemporary or future interest. The topic must represent an emerging area that does not yet receive sufficient focus from research manuscripts. Special session proposals must include descriptions of the proposed manuscripts and speakers, and the importance of the special session to the DAC audience. A submission must list at least three inspiring speakers who address the topic from different angles. DAC reserves the right to restructure all special session proposals. For early feedback on a proposal topic, please contact the technical program co-chairs. All submissions must utilize the format specified in the frequently asked questions area.

    Panel Proposals - CLOSED

    View Panel Submission

    PROPOSALS DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) November 2, 2011 - CLOSED

    A good panel session explores a single, high-level issue or question and has representatives of differing viewpoints. The panel topic should be interesting, timely, informative, and enlightening. The topic should be relevant to one or more segments of DAC attendees.

    Tutorial Proposals - CLOSED 

    View Tutorial Submission

    PROPOSALS DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) November 2, 2011

    In 2012, DAC tutorials will be scheduled as two-hour short tutorials presented multiple times on tutorial day such that attendees can cover three topics of their choice.

    DAC is looking for tangible, hands-on topics that provide immediate value for the attendee. The areas can cover:

    • Traditional EDA topics (for example “How to architect a parallel timing analyzer”)
    • Hot design topics (for example “How to design a low-power memory controller”) or
    • Emerging software development topics (for example “How to get started on writing iPhone apps”)
      DAC reserves the right to restructure all tutorial suggestions.

    Colocated Conference Proposals - CLOSED

    View Colocated Conference Submission

    PROPOSALS DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT) December 2, 2011

    Join Us and Colocate Your Event at DAC!
    DAC Colocated Conferences are meetings that have already obtained event sponsorship from IEEE, ACM, the EDA Consortium or another organization. DAC invites you to colocate your conference with DAC, whether it is a conference, meeting or some other special event.

     

    TOPIC AREAS:

    Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

    SUBMISSION CATEGORIES FOR EDA PAPERS
    Authors of research papers are required to specify a category from the list below. Authors of submissions that cover cross-cutting topics (e.g. low-power, reliability, 3-D, etc.) should select a category that is closest to the essential contribution of the submission. Authors may choose a second submission category to accommodate cross-cutting contributions. Please note the separate categories for embedded systems and software topics.

    EDA1. System-Level Design & Codesign
    EDA1.1 System specification, modeling, simulation, verification, and performance analysis
    EDA1.2 Scheduling, HW/SW partitioning, HW/SW interface synthesis
    EDA1.3 IP and platform-based design
    EDA1.4 Security and IP protection
    EDA1.5 Design of Multiprocessor System-On-Chip (MPSOC)
    EDA1.6 Application-specific processor design tools

    EDA2. System-Level Communication and Networks-on-Chip
    EDA2.1 Modeling and performance analysis
    EDA2.2 Communications-based design, communication and network synthesis
    EDA2.3 Optimization for energy, fault tolerance, reliability
    EDA2.4 Interfacing and software issues, beyond-the-die communication
    EDA2.5 NoC design methodologies, case studies and prototyping

    EDA3. Power Analysis and Low-Power Design
    EDA3.1 System-level power design and thermal management
    EDA3.2 System/Architectural low-power techniques: partitioning, scheduling, and resource management
    EDA3.3 High-level power estimation and optimization
    EDA3.4 Gate-level power analysis and optimization
    EDA3.5 Device and circuit techniques for low-power design
    EDA3.6 Power-aware and energy-efficient wireless protocols, algorithms and design techniques

    EDA4. Verification
    EDA4.1 Functional, transaction-level, RTL, and gate-level modeling and verification of hardware design
    EDA4.2 Dynamic simulation, equivalence checking, formal (and semiformal) verification model and property checking
    EDA4.3 Emulation and hardware simulators or accelerator engines
    EDA4.4 Modelling languages and related formalisms, verification plan development and implementation
    EDA4.5 Assertion-based verification, coverage analysis, constrained random testbench generation

    EDA5. High-Level Synthesis, Logic Synthesis, and FPGAs
    EDA5.1 Combinational, sequential and asynchronous logic synthesis
    EDA5.2 Library mapping, cell-based design and optimization
    EDA5.3 Transistor and gate sizing, resynthesis
    EDA5.4 Interactions between logic design and layout or physical synthesis
    EDA5.5 High-level, behavioral, algorithmic, and architectural synthesis, “C” to gates tools and methods
    EDA5.6 Resource scheduling, allocation, and synthesis
    EDA5.7 Logic synthesis and physical design techniques for FPGAs
    EDA5.8 Configurable and reconfigurable computing

    EDA6. Circuit, Interconnect and Manufacturing Simulation and Analysis
    EDA6.1 Electrical, thermal, and electro-thermal simulation
    EDA6.2 Model order reduction methods
    EDA6.3 Interconnect and substrate modeling and extraction
    EDA6.4 High-frequency and electromagnetic simulation of circuits
    EDA6.5 Process technology characterization, and modeling
    EDA6.6 Technology CAD and fab automation

    EDA7. Timing Analysis, Integrity and Design Reliability
    EDA7.1 Deterministic and statistical timing analysis
    EDA7.2 Signal integrity and substrate noise
    EDA7.3 Power delivery analysis and optimization
    EDA7.4 Electrical and thermal reliability
    EDA7.5 Soft errors
    EDA7.6 Novel clocking methodologies

    EDA8. Physical Design
    EDA8.1 Floorplanning, partitioning, placement
    EDA8.2 Buffer insertion, routing, interconnect planning
    EDA8.3 Physical verification and design rule checking
    EDA8.5 Automated synthesis of clock networks
    EDA8.6 Physical design of 3-D integrated circuits
    EDA8.8 System-in-package design, package-board codesign

    EDA9. Design for Manufacturability
    EDA9.1 Reticle enhancement, lithography-related design optimizations
    EDA9.2 Design for manufacturability, yield, defect tolerance, cost issues, and DFM impact
    EDA9.3 Design for resilience under manufacturing variations

    EDA10. Analog, Mixed-Signal, and RF
    EDA10.1 Analog, mixed-signal, and RF design methodologies
    EDA10.2 Automated synthesis
    EDA10.3 Analog, mixed-signal, and RF simulation
    EDA10.4 High-frequency design and advanced antenna design for wireless design

    EDA11. Testing
    EDA11.1 Test quality/reliability, current based test, delay test, low-power test
    EDA11.2 Digital fault modeling, automatic test generation, fault simulation
    EDA11.3 Digital design for test, test data compression, built-in self test
    EDA11.4 Memory test and repair, FPGA testing
    EDA11.5 Fault-tolerance and online testing
    EDA11.6 Analog/mixed-signal/RF testing, system-in-package (SIP) testing
    EDA11.7 Board- and system-level test, system-on-chip (SoC) testing
    EDA11.8 Silicon debug and diagnosis, post-silicon design validation

    EDA12. Design Automation for System & Synthetic Biology
    EDA12.1 Design methodologies for system & synthetic biology
    EDA12.2 Tools for engineering parts and devices
    EDA12.3 Tools for protein and pathway engineering
    EDA12.4 Tools for bridging experimental and computational frameworks

    EDA13. New and Emerging Design Technologies (including but not restricted to)
    EDA13.1 New transistor structures, devices, and novel process technologies
    EDA13.2 Nanotechnologies, nanowires, nanotubes
    EDA13.3 Optical devices and communication
    EDA13.4 Quantum computing
    EDA13.5 Biologically-based or biologically-inspired computing systems
    EDA13.6 MEMS, sensors, actuators, imaging devices
    EDA13.7 Cyber-physical systems

    EDA14. EDA Wild and Crazy Ideas (WACI)

     

     

    Embedded Systems and Software (ESS)

    ESS1. Embedded System Specification and Software Engineering
    ESS1.1 Domain-specific programming languages
    ESS1.2 Software architectures and software engineering
    ESS1.3 Model- and component-based embedded software design
    ESS1.4 Software frameworks
    ESS1.5 Hardware/software co-specification techniques

    ESS2. Embedded Software
    ESS2.1 Real-time operating systems and middleware
    ESS2.2 Middleware and virtual machines
    ESS2.3 OS Runtime support for resources management
    ESS2.4 Software techniques for multicore, GPU, multithreaded embedded architectures
    ESS2.5 Compilation strategies, code transformation and parallelization techniques for embedded systems
    ESS2.6 Static and dynamic timing analysis for embedded systems
    ESS2.7 Hardware-dependent software
    ESS2.8 Customized interfaces and protocols
    ESS2.9 I/O management in embedded systems: device drivers, timers, etc.

    ESS3. Architectures for Embedded Systems
    ESS3.1 Many- and multi-core embedded architectures
    ESS3.2 Application-specific platforms and embedded processors (ASIP) design
    ESS3.3. Design of heterogeneous distributed embedded systems including wireless sensor networks
    ESS3.4 Run-time and design time reconfigurable platforms and processors
    ESS3.5 Architectures for self-adaptive computing systems
    ESS3.6 On-chip memory architectures and management: scratchpads, compiler controlled memories, etc.
    ESS3.7 Custom storage organizations: flash, etc.
    ESS3.8 Custom communication design

    ESS4. Embedded System Validation, Verification, Security, Dependability
    ESS4.1 Formal verification
    ESS4.2 System validation
    ESS4.3 Testing and regression analysis
    ESS4.4 Hardware/software co-validation
    ESS4.5 Hardware and software security and dependability techniques
    ESS4.6 Verification techniques for software correctness

    ESS5. Embedded Systems Platforms and Case Studies
    ESS5.1 Platforms and design flows for domain-specific applications (e.g.,
    avionics, automotive, medical, mobile, multimedia, etc.)
    ESS5.2 IP-based design
    ESS5.3 Rapid prototyping
    ESS5.4 Packaging issues
    ESS5.5 Case studies

    ESS6. Embedded systems design methodologies
    ESS6.1 Modeling embedded constraints: performance, reliability, power, security, etc.
    ESS6.2 Early estimation and co-simulation of embedded systems designs
    ESS6.3 Multiple-constraint-driven embedded system design exploration, synthesis and optimization
    ESS6.4 Design methodologies for pervasive distributed networked embedded systems
    ESS6.5 Design methodologies for runtime reconfiguration management, self-adaptive systems and autonomous embedded systems
    ESS6.6 System level power management and optimization in embedded systems

    ESS7. Embedded Systems and Software (ESS) Wild and Crazy Ideas (WACI)


     

     

    User Track

    U1. Embedded Systems and Software
    Architectural exploration, design and optimization
    Software specification, models and frameworks
    Security for embedded systems and software
    Validation and verification
    Design methodologies and flows
    Case studies

    U2. Silicon Design (Front-End)
    System and high-level hardware synthesis
    Power/area/performance trade-offs and low-power design
    Bus and network communication
    Logic simulation
    Validation, test planning, and coverage
    FPGAs and emulation
    Formal verification

    U3. Silicon Design (Back-End)
    Physical synthesis tools and techniques
    Floor planning
    Timing and circuit analysis; circuit optimization
    Reliability
    Interconnect simulation and analysis
    Physical design and manufacturability
    Manufacturing test and silicon debug
    Analog, mixed-signal, and RF design
    Custom, standard cell, and FPGA design flows
    Tool control and integration

     

    Templates for ACM proceedings are presented in LaTex (Option#2-sig-alternate class file), WordPerfect and Microsoft Word (using Word is preferred) and located at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

    Design Automation Conference Sponsors IEEE Solid State Circuits Society Electronic Design Automation Consortium CEDA - IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation SIGDA Special Interest Group - Design Automation