CM International Symposium on Physical Design 2010
http://www.ispd.cc

* IMPORTANT DATES
Title and abstract submission deadline: Midnight, September 30, 2009 (PST)
Full manuscript submission deadline: Midnight, October 4, 2009 (PST)
Acceptance notification: November 12, 2009
Camera-ready paper due: January 10, 2010
Symposium date: March 14 - 17, 2010

Location: Marriott Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California
(Co-located with TAU, March 18 - 19, 2010, http://www.tauworkshop.com)
Sponsored by ACM SIGDA with Technical Co-sponsorship from IEEE CAS

The International Symposium on Physical Design provides a premier forum
to exchange ideas and promote research on critical areas related to the
physical design of VLSI systems. All aspects of physical design,
including its interactions with architecture, behavioral- and logic-level
synthesis, and back-end performance analysis and verification are within
the scope of the symposium. Target domains include semi-custom and
full-custom IC's, regular fabrics, FPGA's, and
systems-on-chip/systems-in-package. Following its eighteen predecessors,
the 2010 symposium will highlight key new directions and leading-edge
theoretical and experimental contributions to the field. The ACM Press
will publish accepted papers in the Symposium proceedings. Topics of
interest include but are not limited to:

- Floorplanning and interconnect planning
- Interactions with behavior-level synthesis flows
- Partitioning, placement and routing
- Interactions with logic-level (re-)synthesis flows
- Physical design for manufacturability and yield
- Analysis and management of power dissipation
- Synthesis optimizations within physical design
- Management of design data and constraints
- Estimation and modeling
- New physical design methodologies
- Timing and crosstalk issues in physical design
- New paradigms in physical design
- Special structures for clocking and power networks
- Circuit performance measurements in a PD context
- Physical design for emerging process technologies
- Multithreaded/distributed algorithms in physical design


* SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

All papers must be submitted electronically. Details will be posted
on the web site http://www.ispd.cc. Potential authors will be required
to submit full-length, original, unpublished papers (a maximum of 8
pages in ACM conference format) along with an abstract of at most 200
words and contact author information (name, street/mailing address,
telephone/fax, e-mail). Previously published or papers concurrently
submitted for publication to other conferences/journals will not be
considered. If one or more related papers have been previously
published elsewhere or have been concurrently submitted elsewhere for
publication, the authors should clearly state the differences between
these papers and the current submission. All submitted papers will be
under blind reviews, and thus they must not include name(s) or
affiliation(s) of the author(s) anywhere in the manuscripts. Failure to
comply with these requirements will result in automatic rejection.

ISPD will recognize excellent contributions through a Best Paper Award.

* SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION

General Chair: Prashant Saxena (Synopsys) [Prashant.Saxena@synopsys.com]
Steering Committee Chair: Gi-Joon Nam (IBM) [gnam@us.ibm.com]
Technical Program Chair: Yao-Wen Chang (National Taiwan Univ.) [ywchang@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw]
Publications Chair: Jiang Hu (Texas A&M Univ.) [jianghu@ece.tamu.edu]
Publicity Chair/Webmaster: Cheng-Kok Koh (Purdue Univ.) [chengkok@purdue.edu]
Contest Chair: Cliff Sze (IBM) [csze@us.ibm.com]