PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

The International Symposium on Physical Design provides a high-quality forum for the exchange of ideas and results in critical areas related to the physical design of VLSI systems. The scope of this symposium includes all aspects of physical design, from interactions with behavior- and logic-level synthesis, to back-end performance analysis and verification.
ISPD 2004 Program: PDF and Microsoft Word.
Regular papers are 30 minutes. Short papers (s) are 15 minutes.
SUNDAY, APRIL 18
5:30 to 7:00 pm Evening Reception
MONDAY, APRIL 19
8:30 - 9:30 am Welcome and Keynote Address
Host: Charles J. Alpert

Beyond Moore's Law: The Interconnect Era
James D. Meindl / Georgia Institute of Technology


9:30 - 10:00 am Morning break
10:00 - 12:00 am Session 1: Placement Techniques
Chair: Patrick Madden/ SUNY Binghamton

Almost Optimum Placement Legalization by Minimum Cost Flow and Dynamic Programming
Ulrich Brenner, Anna Pauli, Jens Vygen / University of Bonn

Sensitivity Guided Net Weighting for Placement Driven Synthesis
Haoxing Ren, David Z. Pan, David S. Kung / UT Austin and IBM

Implementation and Extensibility of an Analytic Placer
Andrew B. Kahng and Qinke Wang / UCSD

FastPlace: Efficient Analytical Placement using Cell Shifting, Iterative Local Refinement and a Hybrid Net Model
Natarajan Viswanathan, Chris Chong-Nuen Chu / Iowa State University

12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 pm Session 2: Routing Topology Optimization
Chair: Narendra Shenoy/ Synopsys

Multilevel Routing with Antenna Avoidance
Tsung-Yi Ho, Yao-Wen Chang, Sao-Jie Chen/National Taiwan University

(s) An ECO Algorithm for Eliminating Crosstalk Violations
Hua Xiang, Kai-yuan Chao and Martin D. F. Wong/ UIUC

(s) Fast Algorithm for Identifying Good Buffer Insertion Locations
Charles J. Alpert, Milos Hrkic, Stephen T. Quay/ IBM Austin

Performance-Driven Register Insertion in Placement
Dennis K.Y. Tong and Evangeline F.Y. Young / Chinese University of Hong Kong

3:00 - 3:30 pm Afternoon break
3:30 - 5:00 pm Panel session 3: Buffering and Agony: What does the Future Hold?
Organizer and Chair: Desmond Kirkpatrick/Intel
Panelists:
Dennis Sylvester/ University of Michigan
Prashant Saxena/ Intel
Lou Scheffer/ Cadence
Pete Osler / IBM

6:30 - 9:30 pm Heard Museum Dinner Banquet
Dinner Speaker: Steve Schulz/ SI2
The Many Paradoxes of EDA

TUESDAY, APRIL 20

8:30 - 10:00 am Session 4: Floorplanning
Chair: Andrew B. Kahng/ UCSD

Floorplanning for Throughput
Mario R. Casu Luca Macchiarulo / Politecnico di Torino

Multi-project Reticle Floorplanning and Wafer Dicing
Andrew B. Kahng, Ion Mandoiu, Qinke Wang, Xu Xu, and Alex Z. Zelikovsky / UCSD, University of Connecticut, Georgia State University

(s) An Area-Optimality study of floorplanning
Jason Cong, Gabriele Nataneli, Michail Romesis, Joe Shinnerl/ UCLA

(s) Recursive Bisection Based Mixed Block Placement
Ateen Khatkhate, Chen Li, Ameya R. Agnihotri, Mehmet Can Yildiz, Satoshi Ono, Cheng-Kok Koh, Patrick H. Madden/ Binghamton University, Purdue University, IBM Austin

10:00 - 10:30 am Morning break
10:30 - 12:00 am Session 5: Regular Circuit Fabrics: Act Two -- the Industrial Perspectives (invited)
Organizer and chair: Jason Cong / UCLA

Design Tools and flow for NEC's Structured ASIC ISSP
Takumi Okamoto/ NEC Corporation

Design Considerations for Regular Fabrics
Deepak Sherlekar/ Virage Logic

Structured ASIC, Evolution or Revolution?
Kun-Cheng Wu/ Faraday Corporation

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 pm Session 6: 3-D Design (invited)
Organizers: Sani Nassif/IBM, Sachin Sapatnekar/UMN (chair)

The Four Degrees of 3D
Robert Montoye/ IBM

Technology, Performance, and Computer-Aided Design of Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits
Rafael Reif/ MIT

2:30 - 3:45 pm Session 7: Power optimization
Chair:

Topology Optimization of Structured Power/Ground Networks
Jaskirat Singh, Sachin Sapatnekar / University of Minnesota

Power-Delivery Networks Optimization with Thermal Reliability Integrity
Ting-Yuang Wang, Jeng-Liang Tsai, Charlie Chung-Ping Chen / University of Wisconsin

(s) Early-stage Power Grid Analysis for Uncertain Working Modes
Haifeng Qian, Sani R. Nassif, Sachin S. Sapatnekar / IBM, University of Minnesota

3:45 - 4:15 pm Afternoon break
4:15 - 5:00 pm Session 8: Clock (invited)
Organizer and chair: Sachin S. Sapatnekar / University of Minnesota

Power-Aware Clock Tree Planning
Enrico Macii, Alessandro Ivaldi/ Politecnico di Torino, Monica Donno/ BullDAST s.r.l., Luca Mazzoni/ Accent s.r.l.

5:00 - 5:45 pm Session 9: FPGA (invited)
Organizer and chair: Massoud Pedram/ UC Irvine

Innovate or Perish: FPGA Physical Design
Majid Sarrafzadeh/ UCLA, Salil Raje/Hier Design Inc.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21

8:30 - 10:15 am Session 10: Parasitic Analysis and Control
Chair: David Blaauw/ University of Michigan

(s) On Optimal Physical Synthesis of Sleep Transistors
Changbo Long, Jinjun Xiong, Lei He/ UCLA

Mutual Inductance Extraction and the Dipole Approximation
Salvador Ortiz, Rafael Escovar, Roberto Suaya/ Mentor Graphics France

(s) A New Multi-Ramp Driver Model with RLC Interconnect Load
Lakshmi K. Vakati, Janet Wang/ University of Arizona

(s) Optimal Gate Sizing for Coupling-Noise Reduction
Debjit Sinha, Hai Zhou, Chris C. N. Chu/ Northwestern

Clock Network Sizing via Sequential Linear Programming with Time-domain Analysis
Kai Wang, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska/ UCSB

10:15 - 10:45 am break

10:45 - 11:15 am Session 11: Design Styles (invited)
Organizer and chair: Charles J. Alpert/IBM

Placement Driven Synthesis Case Studies on Two Monster Chips: Hierarchical and Flat
Pete Osler/ IBM

11:15 - 12:15 am Session 12 Statistical Analysis for Placement
Chair: Raymond Nijssen/ Magma

(s) A Study of Netlist Structure and Placement Efficiency
Qinghua Liu, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska/UCSB

(s) Probabilistic Congestion Prediction
Jurjen Westra, Chris Bartels, Patrick Groeneveld/ Eindhoven University

A Predictive Distributed Congestion Metric and its Application to Technology Mapping
Rupesh S. Shelar, Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Prashant Saxena, Xinning Wang/ University of Minnesota and Intel

12:15 - 12:30 pm Closing Remarks