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DAC 2013 AUSTIN, TX | JUNE 2-6

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 2013 is seeking submissions that deal with design technologies and algorithms, addressing all aspects of electronic design across several submission categories.

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS PDF

Designer Track - OPENS January 7, 2013

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SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: February 6, 2013
       


The DAC Designer Track brings together IC designers and embedded software developers from across the globe. It offers a unique opportunity to network with and learn from other industry experts. This unique track features presentations on a wide variety of EDA topics. Designers and software developers from Intel, IBM, Samsung, TI, Toshiba, Qualcomm, AMD, Freescale, and other leading IC companies will present their experiences on effective design flows, methods, and tool usage. There is no other way to improve your “design IQ” in such a short amount of time.

Special Session Proposals - CLOSED

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PROPOSALS DUE BEFORE: October 29, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)


A special session is devoted to either a traditional core EDA topic, a topic of future interest, or an ESS topic. The topic should be presented from an angle that does not overlap content from traditional research manuscripts, having a more educational component.  A complete submission should list at least three inspiring speakers who address the topic from different angles. Incomplete special sessions with just one or two speakers WILL also be considered and are encouraged (but complete proposals are preferable). Incomplete proposals may potentially be merged with other proposals. The special session submission form is streamlined this year, requiring an overall abstract for the special session plus a title, abstract, and speaker name (and contact info) for each of the proposed talks.  Note that the organizer/submitter of the special session may also be a speaker for the session.

Technical and Pavilion Panel Proposals - CLOSED

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PROPOSALS DUE BEFORE: October 29, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)


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

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PROPOSALS DUE BEFORE: October 29, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)


In 2013, 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.

Workshop Proposals - CLOSED

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PROPOSALS DUE BEFORE: October 29, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)


DAC invites you to organize a workshop on emerging topics related to design, design methodologies, and design automation. DAC Workshops address topics which span the interest of many suppliers and users, and are not for a single vendor to advertise their technology.

Colocated Conference Proposals - CLOSED

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PROPOSALS DUE BEFORE: November 16, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)


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.

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Research Manuscripts - CLOSED

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: November 27, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION: DUE BEFORE: December 3, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)


Authors of EDA research manuscripts 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.

Embedded Systems and Software (ESS) Research Manuscripts - CLOSED

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: November 27, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION: DUE BEFORE: December 3, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)


Embedded Systems and Software topics at DAC 2012 were a huge hit, resulting in more than 33% of the conference’s technical content focused on ESS. Authors of research manuscripts on all aspects of Embedded Systems and Software are encouraged to submit from the topic category list below.

Authors may choose a second submission category (both from the EDA research topics as well as from the focus embedded topics) to accommodate cross-cutting contributions. All Embedded Systems and Software manuscript submissions must adhere to the same rules outlined for the EDA research manuscripts.

Perspective Manuscripts - CLOSED

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: November 27, 2012
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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION: DUE BEFORE: December 3, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)


DAC is soliciting "perspective" manuscripts that contain information of significant interest to the DAC audience, but non-traditional content for the DAC program. In other words, original research results are NOT required. Perspective papers enable authors to submit papers that do not follow the traditional form factor (introduction, problem statement, algorithms, experimental results) of a typical research paper.

"Wild and Crazy Ideas" (WACI) Short Manuscripts - CLOSED

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: November 27, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION DUE BEFORE: December 3 , 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)


DAC invites submissions with genuinely forward-looking, radical, and innovative ideas in the area of electronic design or electronic design automation. The WACI sessions feature novel (and even preliminary or unproven) technical ideas.

"Work-In-Progress" (WIP) - CLOSED

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS DUE BEFORE: November 27, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION DUE BEFORE: December 3, 2012
5:00pm MT, (-07:00 GMT)


DAC Work-in-Progress aims to provide authors an opportunity for early feedback on current work and preliminary results

Authors have two different opportunities to be part of the Work-in-Progress Poster Session.

Option 1:
If you submit a research manuscript and it is not accepted as part of the regular technical program, authors can have a second opportunity to have their submission reviewed as part of the DAC WIP poster session. Please select the following box “If not accepted as a Manuscript, please review for inclusion to the WIP program” when you are on the submission form.

Option 2:
Authors must submit a 100 word abstract and a one page manuscript to be reviewed as part of the DAC Work-in-Progress Poster session. Please select the following box “Please review only as a DAC WIP” when you are on the submission form.


TOPIC AREAS:
In addition to well established EDA and ESS subjects, special focus areas in 2013 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.

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES:

Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

EDA1. System-Level Design & Codesign
EDA1.1 System specification, modeling, analysis, 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) and case studies
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 Modeling 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 Interactions between logic design and layout or physical synthesis
EDA5.4 High-level, behavioral, algorithmic, and architectural synthesis, "C" to gates tools and methods
EDA5.5 Resource scheduling, allocation, and synthesis
EDA5.6 Logic synthesis and physical design techniques for FPGAs
EDA5.7 Configurable and reconfigurable computing

EDA6. Analog Design and Simulation
EDA6.1 Analog, mixed-signal, and RF design methodologies
EDA6.2 Automated synthesis and optimization of analog designs
EDA6.3 Analog, mixed-signal, and RF simulation
EDA6.4 High-frequency and electromagnetic simulation
EDA6.5 Model order reduction techniques for analog/RF designs
EDA6.6 Substrate noise simulation for analog/RF designs

EDA7. Physical Design and Design Closure
EDA7.1 Floorplanning, partitioning, placement
EDA7.2 Buffer insertion and interconnect planning
EDA7.3 Routing and congestion analysis
EDA7.4 Transistor and gate sizing, local physical synthesis
EDA7.5 Clock network synthesis
EDA7.6 Physical verification and design rule checking
EDA7.7 Physical design of 3-D integrated circuits
EDA7.8 Reticle enhancement, lithography-related design optimizations

EDA8. Analysis of Digital Design
EDA8.1 Deterministic and statistical timing analysis
EDA8.2 Electrical simulation, delay modeling and library characterization
EDA8.3 Electrical and thermal reliability, electrical-thermal simulation
EDA8.4 Power delivery analysis and reduction
EDA8.5 Signal integrity and crosstalk modeling
EDA8.6 Process technology characterization, BEOL extraction, and modeling
EDA8.7 Timing and signal/power integrity analysis of 3-D ICs
EDA8.8 Novel clocking methodologies

EDA9. Test and Reliability
EDA9.1 Test quality/reliability, current based test, delay test, low-power test
EDA9.2 Digital fault modeling, ATPG, DFT, BIST, compression
EDA9.3 Memory / FPGA test and repair
EDA9.4 Fault-tolerance and online testing
EDA9.5 Analog/mixed-signal/RF testing
EDA9.6 Board- and system-level test, system-on-chip (SOC) testing
EDA9.7 Silicon debug and diagnosis, post-silicon design validation
EDA9.8 Soft errors
EDA9.9 Design for resilience under manufacturing variations
EDA9.10 Design for manufacturability, yield, defect tolerance, cost issues, and DFM impact
EDA9.11 Testing of 3-D ICs

EDA10. New and Emerging Design Technologies (including but not restricted to)
EDA10.1 New transistor structures, devices, and novel process technologies
EDA10.2 Nanotechnologies, nanowires, nanotubes
EDA10.3 Optical devices and communication
EDA10.4 Quantum computing
EDA10.5 Biologically-based or biologically-inspired computing systems
EDA10.6 MEMS, sensors, actuators, imaging devices
EDA10.7 Design Automation for System & Synthetic Biology

EDA11. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Wild and Crazy Ideas (WACI)

Embedded Systems and Software (ESS)

ESS1. Embedded System Specification and Embedded Software
ESS1.1 Embedded systems specification methodologies
ESS1.2 Model- and component-based embedded software design
ESS1.3 Embedded software verification
ESS1.4 Operating systems for embedded systems, middleware and virtual machines
ESS1.5 OS Runtime support for resources management
ESS1.6 Software techniques for multicore, GPU, multithreaded embedded architectures
ESS1.7 Compilation strategies, code transformation and parallelization techniques for embedded systems
ESS1.8 Static and dynamic timing analysis for embedded systems
ESS1.9. Hardware-dependent software
ESS1.10 Customized interfaces and protocols
ESS1.11 I/O management in embedded systems: device drivers, timers, etc.

ESS2. Architectures for Embedded Systems
ESS2.1 Many- and multi-core embedded architectures
ESS2.2 Application-specific platforms and embedded processors (ASIP) design
ESS2.3. Design of heterogeneous distributed embedded systems including wireless sensor networks
ESS2.4 Run-time and design time reconfigurable platforms and processors
ESS2.5 Architectures for self-adaptive computing systems
ESS2.6 On-chip memory architectures and management: scratchpads, compiler controlled memories, etc.
ESS2.7 Custom storage organizations: flash, etc.
ESS2.8 Cyberphysical systems: design, analysis and optimization of networked control and switched control systems, architectures, case studies


ESS3. Embedded System Validation, Verification, Security, Dependability
ESS3.1 Formal verification, validation and testing of embedded systems
ESS3.2 Hardware/software co-validation
ESS3.3 Hardware and software security techniques
ESS3.4 Dependable and safety-critical embedded systems: design and case studies

ESS4. Embedded Systems Design Methodologies
ESS4.1 Modeling embedded constraints: performance, reliability, power, security, etc.
ESS4.2 Early estimation and co-simulation of embedded systems designs
ESS4.3 Multiple-constraint-driven embedded system design exploration, synthesis and optimization
ESS4.4 Design methodologies for pervasive distributed networked embedded systems
ESS4.5 Design methodologies for runtime reconfiguration management, self-adaptive systems and autonomous embedded systems
ESS4.6 System level power management and optimization in embedded systems

ESS5. Embedded Systems and Software (ESS) Wild and Crazy Ideas (WACI)

Designer/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




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