International Center on System-on-a-chip (IC-SOC) Workshop

Changsha, China

August 6-7, 2004

 

1. Welcome and Opening Remarks

Welcome: Organizers

ICSOC Center Status ( Jason Cong, UCLA )

Bio, Nano and Quantum Computing (Mitra Basu, NSF)

Design Automation for Micro and Nano Systems (Mitra Basu, NSF)

2. Synthesis and Optimization

Decomposition of Instruction Decoder for Low Power (TingTing Hwang, NTHU)

Layer Assignment Algorithm for RLC Crosstalk Minimization (Bin Liu, Tsing Hua University)

Bitwidth-Aware Scheduling and Binding in High-Level Synthesis (Junjuan Xu, UC Los Angeles, & Peking University)

Recursively Combine Floorplan and Q-Place in Mixed Mode Placement Based on Circuit‘s Variety of Block Configuration (Changqi Yang, Tsing Hua University)

Crosstalk Driven Routing Resource Assignment (Hailong Yao, Tsing Hua University)

Solution Space Smoothing Method & Its Application in VLSI Floorplanning (Song Chen, Sheqin Dong & Xianlong Hong, Tsing Hua University)

An Effective Floorplanning Algorithm in Mixed Mode Placement Integrated with Rectilinear-Shaped Optimization for Soft Blocks (Changqi Yang, Tsing Hua University)

3. Test and Verification

Status Report of ATPG-Solvers for Verification (Tim Cheng, UC Santa Barbara)

Status Report of Test Project at Tsing Hua Univ (Tsin-Yuan Chang, NTHU)

Research Status of Equivalence Checking at Zhejiang University (Feijun Zheng, Zheijiang University)

High-Speed Serial IO Testing (Tim Cheng, UC Santa Barbara )

Discussion

  4. Design Drive Status Update

Status Report of NSP (TingTing Hwang, NTHU)

CPU (Xu Cheng, Peking University)

Low-Power FPGAs (Jason Cong, UC Los Angeles)

  5. Beyond SOCs—Science, Education, and Culture

There is Mathematics in Poetry, and Poetry in Mathematics (C. L. Liu, former president of NTHU )

The Joy of Speech Making (C. L. Liu, former president of NTHU)

6. All-Around Training of Engineering Students in 21st Century -- Roundtable Discussion

7. Invited Talks

Global IC Industry and SoC Design Trend in Asia Pacific (Lung Chu, Magma Design Automation )

The Changing Business Model In IC Design Houses (Jeremy Wang, Fabless Semiconductor Association in Asia Pacific)

The Methodology and technology for SOC Design (Yason Wang, Cadence Inc.)

8. Guest Speakers

Hierarchical Platform-Based SOC Design Method (Zhihui Xiong, National University of Defense Technonogy)

Latency Insensitive Systems: Analysis & Optimization (Cheng-Kok Koh, Purdue Univ.)

Nanometer Physical Design Research at Univ. of Texas, Austin (David Pan Univ. of Texas, Austin)

Hierarchical Simulation Modeling -- An Effective Approach For Hardware And Software Co-design (Zhao Yulai, Peking University)

Synthesizable SystemC Codes from MDA Models in UML 2.0 (Winson Zhu, National University of Singapore)