Welcome to the ISPD 2017 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design
Organization Committee Steering Committee Chair Evangeline Young Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong General Chair Mustafa Ozdal Bilkent University Technical Program Chair Chris Chu Iowa State Univ. Publication Chair Ismail Bustany Mentor Graphics Publicity Chair Bill Swartz TimberWolf & UT Dallas Contest Chair Stephen Yang Xilinx 2
Hotel Logistics Complimentary internet access in guest rooms and meeting room Wifi passcode: bus94 (Monday morning only) wrath39 (afterwards) Meals at Willamette room Breakfast, lunch, and dinner Your badge will also serve as meal tickets 3
Symposium Logistics Speakers Check in with your Session Chair and load your slides prior to your session Keep on time All slides will be posted (as PDF files) on the ISPD website. Please inform us if this is not acceptable. Session Chairs Know your speakers, help to load slides in advance Keep your sessions on time Audience Please set your cell phones to silent/vibration mode Questions are encouraged, interruptions are okay! Please identify yourself before asking questions 4
Technical Program Paper selection process 39 abstract submissions Double-blind review process & in-person TPC meeting 13 accepted papers Variety of PD-related topics covered, including: Emerging challenges for current/future process technologies FPGA layout Clock & timing Machine learning for EDA 5
Chair ISPD 2017 TPC Yongchan Ban Globalfoundries Ismail Bustany Mentor Graphics Salim Chowdhury Formerly Oracle Sabya Das Xilinx Chair: Chris Chu Iowa State Univ. Sheqin Dong Tsinghua Univ. Mahesh Iyer Intel Iris Hui-Ru Jiang NCTU Jens Lienig TU Dresden Mark Po-Hung Lin NCCU Wen-Hao Liu Cadence David Newmark AMD Ulf Schlichtmann TU Munich Yasuhiro Takashima U of Kitakyushu Hua Xiang IBM Gary Yeap Synopsys Bei Yu CUHK
Invited Talks 3 keynote speeches Technology Options for Beyond CMOS, Ian Young (Intel) Pushing the Boundaries of Moore's Law to Transition from FPGA to All Programmable Platform, Ivo Bolsens (Xilinx) Physical Design Challenges and Innovations to Meet Power, Speed, and Area Scaling Trend, Lee-Chung Lu (TSMC) 14 invited talks from industry and academia Industry: Cadence, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, Synopsys, Xilinx Academia: Hosei Univ., National Taiwan Univ., NYU, UCSD, UFSC, UFRGS, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Waseda Univ. 7
Chair Steering Committee Azadeh Davoodi Univ. of Wisconsin Yao-Wen Chang National Taiwan Univ. Evangeline Young Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong David Pan UT Austin Martin Wong UIUC Jiang Hu Univ. of Texas A&M Noel Menezes Intel Patrick Groeneveld 8 Synopsys
ISPD Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 Given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of physical design automation over multiple decades. The purpose is to recognize their lifetime of achievements and contributions in terms of research work, education, and professional service. Prof. Satoshi Goto Please join us when we present this year's award to Prof. Satoshi Goto on Tuesday. 9
ISPD 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award Session 6: Commemoration for Prof. Satoshi Goto Tuesday 3:30 5:30 pm Session Chair: Jinjia Zhou (Hosei University) The Spirit of in-house CAD Achieved by the Legend of Master "Prof. Goto" and his Apprentices, Yuichi Nakamura (NEC Corp.) Generalized Force Directed Relaxation with Optimal Regions and Its Applications to Circuit Placement, Yao-Wen Chang (National Taiwan University) 100x Evolution of Video Codec Chips, Jinjia Zhou (Hosei University) Physical Layout after Half a Century: From Back-Board Ordering to Multi-Dimensional Placement and Beyond, Chung-Kuan Cheng (University of California, San Diego) Past, Present and Future of the Research, Satoshi Goto (Waseda University) Please join us when we present this year's award to Prof. Satoshi Goto, which will be held at the end of the session. Dinner party from 6:00 to 9:00pm. 10
Contest: Clock-Aware FPGA Placement Sponsored by ACM SIGDA and Xilinx Inc. Co-organized by Xilinx Continuous effort from last year s Routability-driven Placement 13 teams registered from US, Canada, Europe, Asia, South America 9 final submissions Winners to be announced Wednesday morning (Session 8) Top 5 teams will give 8-10 minute presentations 11
Bus Tour to Multnomah Falls: Wed 1:30-6:00pm Scenic ride at Historic Columbia River Highway Women s Forum Viewpoint Multnomah Falls Please sign-up if you re planning to join Boarding: Wednesday 1:30pm (sharp) 12
Sponsors and Supporters Sponsor: Technical co-sponsor: Industry Financial Sponsors: 13
Best Paper Award Candidates Session 1: Bilinear Lithography Hotspot Detection, Hang Zhang, Fengyuan Zhu, Haocheng Li, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Bei Yu Session 5: Automatic Cell Layout in the 7nm Era, Pascal Cremer, Stefan Hougardy, Jan Schneider and Jannik Silvanus Session 7: Pin Accessibility-Driven Detailed Placement Refinement, Yixiao Ding, Chris Chu and Wai-Kei Mak 14
2017 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design Best Paper Award Presented to Hang Zhang, Fengyuan Zhu, Haocheng Li, Evangeline F. Y. Young, and Bei Yu for the paper Bilinear Lithography Hotspot Detection Evangeline F. Y. Young Steering Committee Chair Mustafa Ozdal General Chair March 19 22, 2017 Chris Chu Technical Program Chair
Monday Keynote Technology Options for Beyond-CMOS Dr. Ian Young Intel Senior Fellow and Director of Exploratory Integrated Circuits in the Technology and Manufacturing Group of Intel. Joined Intel in 1983 Technical contributions in Intel s designs of DRAMs, SRAMs, microprocessor clocking, mixed-signal circuits for high-speed I/O links, RF CMOS circuits for wireless transceivers, and research for optical I/O. Recipient of the 2009 International Solid-State Circuits Conference s Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions paper. B.E.E. and M.S. from the University of Melbourne, Australia. PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley IEEE Fellow. 16