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Perspective Manuscripts

Perspective Manuscripts
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This year, 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.

SUBMISSION format:

  • Stage one (Abstraction Submission), a title, abstract, and a list of all co-authors must be submitted by November 29th - CLOSED
  • Stage two (Manuscript Submission), the paper itself is submitted by December 5th - CLOSED
  • To designate your manuscript as a PERSPECTIVE manuscript on the submission site, you must first go to #2 (Select your Submission) and select EDA or ESS submission. On this second page, select the PERSPECTIVE check box above the topic area selection. 


These stages can be done at one time prior to November 29th or if you need more time to complete the manuscript you have the ability to go back into the submission site between November 30th and December 5th and upload the manuscript. 

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscript submission meets all guidelines and that the PDF is readable. To ensure fairness for all submitters, there will be no grace periods to fix a problematic submission.

Accepted manuscripts will be published in the proceedings.

Authors must specify their submission as a “Perspective” submission during the ABSTRACT SUBMISSION stage.

Examples for submissions in this category include, but are not limited to:
  • Surveys or historical perspectives on an important problem
  • New problem formulations and benchmarks
  • Critiques of a current subset of CAD literature (e.g., parallel CAD, floor planning)
  • Descriptions of new, yet relatively unexplored CAD problems
  • Commentary on keynote or plenary talks from other EDA conferences that have not been published
  • Visualization of complex design or algorithmic data
  • New design / algorithm quality metrics or quantification methods
  • Applications of EDA algorithms to non-traditional EDA applications
  • Detailed comparisons and analysis of previously published approaches to better quantify value
  • Position papers that present opinions on important problems and how it can be attacked

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscript meets the 8-page paper-length guidelines. There will be no resubmissions to correct this issue.

All Perspective manuscript will be reviewed as finished manuscripts.  Preliminary submissions will be at a disadvantage.

Manuscript Submission Rules:
All perspective manuscript submissions MUST adhere to the following rules, and manuscripts that do not adhere to these rules will not be considered for any resubmission.
  1. Submitter must enter the names, affiliations, city, state country and email address of ALL co-authors.
  2. The abstract of approximately 100 words must clearly state the significant contribution, impact, and results of the manuscript
  3. The manuscript must be in PDF format only and be a readable file
  4. The total manuscript file must not exceed eight pages (including the abstract, manuscript itself, figures, tables and references). Any manuscripts longer than 8 pages will be rejected.
  5. DO NOT identify the author(s) by their name(s) or affiliation(s) anywhere on the manuscript or abstract, with all references to the author(s)’s own previous work or affiliations in the bibliographic citations being in the third person
  6. Double-columned, 9-pt or 10-pt font
  7. The addition of new co-authors to the submission will not be permitted after November 29th
  8. You will not be able to add authors to your manuscript submission if it has been accepted into a DAC session

Review Process:
  • DAC manuscripts go through a double-blind review process; i.e., the identity of authors and reviewers is only known to the TPC co-chairs.
  • DAC ensures that there are no conflicts of interest between authors and reviewers.
  • DAC will compare each submission against a vast database and any manuscript with significant similarity to previously published works or with manuscripts that are simultaneously under review with other venues with archival publications (e.g., conferences, symposia, journals, and workshops with archival proceedings)
  • Duplicate submissions will be rejected. Furthermore, DAC will notify the technical chair of the venue where the duplicate was submitted.

Accept/Rejection Notification:
  • A list of titles of all accepted manuscripts will be posted on the DAC website on February 10, 2012
  • Accept/reject notices will be sent to all authors by email on February 21, 2012, and will be available thereafter to all authors by logging into the DAC website
  • Complete instructions for final manuscript submission and required release forms will be available on the DAC website by March 6, 2012
  • Authors of accepted manuscripts must sign and submit a copyright release form for their manuscript
  • All conference presenters will be required to register at the time of final manuscript


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)


 







Q. Where should I look for information regarding a DAC submission?

A. Check out the Call for Contributions. Each year, the DAC Executive Committee issues a Call for Contributions (CFC) for research manuscript submissions. While this document addresses research manuscripts (EDA and ESS manuscripts), DAC also encourages User Track papers, panel, tutorial, and special session submissions. Choose the submission venue that best conveys your message to the DAC audience! There are separate deadlines for each submission type; the CFC lists all relevant deadlines. 

In addition to the CFC, the FAQs here provide concise answers to common questions. The FAQs will be updated based on questions directed to the various DAC Chairs.

Q. What is the DAC Perspectives submission timeline?

A. TIMELINE

OCTOBER & NOVEMBER 2011
October 11 to November 29 – Research, WACI and Perspectives abstract submission site is OPEN
November 29 – Research, WACI and Perspectives abstract submission are DUE by 5:00pm MT (-07:00 GMT)
November 30 to December 5 – Research, WACI and Perspectives final manuscript submission site is OPEN

DECEMBER 2011
December 5 – Research, WACI and Perspective final manuscript are DUE by 5:00pm MT
(-07:00 GMT).


JANUARY 2012
January 19 to January 25 – Author clarification

FEBRUARY 2012
February 10 – Accepted manuscripts list is posted on the dac.com website
February 20 – Accept/reject notices will be sent to all authors. Authors will be able to see the Technical Program Committee reviews

MARCH 2012
March 6 – Confirmation forms will be sent to the designated speaker for each accepted manuscript
March 30 – DAC website LIVE with the technical program!

APRIL 2012
April 4 – Speaker registration deadline. A member from each manuscript has to register for DAC
April 4 – Final manuscript is DUE to the proceedings publisher by 5:00pm MT (-07:00 GMT). Instructions will be provided to the speaker by the proceedings publisher
April 4 – Copyright form is DUE to the ACM site. Instructions will be provided to the speaker by the proceedings publisher

MAY 2012
May 7 to May 21 – Speaker submission of presentation slides to the DAC database site
May 21 – Session Chairs to provide feedback to all speakers regarding their presentation slides
May 21 – Speaker bios are DUE to the DAC database site
May 21 – A/V permission and release forms are DUE to the ACM site

JUNE 2012
June 3 – The Design Automation Conference begins!

Q. Who do I contact for more information?

A. For additional information, please contact Soha Hassoun or Donatella Sciuto, 49th DAC Technical Program Co-Chairs.
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


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