ISPD 2007

March 18 - 21, 2007

Dolce Lakeway Resort and Spa, Austin (Texas), USA

Technical Program (.doc, .pdf)

The International Symposium on Physical Design provides a high-quality forum for the exchange of ideas on the physical layout design of VLSI systems. The scope of this symposium includes all aspects of physical design, from high-level interactions with logic synthesis, down to back-end performance analysis and verification.

Regular paper presentations run 25 minutes. Invited talks are 30-35 minutes.

5:30 – 7:00 pm Evening Reception

8:30 – 9:30 am Welcome and Keynote Address (ppt)

Host: Patrick Madden/SUNY Binghamton

(Keynote) Cell Architecture — Key Physical Design Features and Methodology

Jim Khale, IBM

9:30 – 9:55 am Morning break

9:55 - 12:05 am Session 1: Multicore and DFM

Chair: Hidetoshi Onodera, Kyoto U

(Invited talk) An 8-core, 64-thread, 64-bit Power Efficient SPARC SoC (Niagara2) (pdf)

Tim Johnson and Umesh Nawathe, Sun Microsystems

Dummy Fill Density Analysis with Coupling Constraints (ppt)

Hua Xiang, Liang Deng, Ruchir Puri, Kai-Yuan (Kevin) Chao and Martin D.F. Wong

Variability-Driven Formulation for Simultaneous Gate Sizing and Post-Silicon Tunability Allocation (ppt)

Vishal Khandelwal and Ankur Srivastava

Is Your Layout Density Verification Exact ? --- A Fast Exact Algorithm For Density Calculation (ppt)

Hua Xiang, Kai-Yuan (Kevin) Chao, Ruchir Puri and Martin D.F. Wong

Pattern Sensitive Placement For Manufacturability (ppt)

Shiyan Hu and Jiang Hu

12:05 – 1:25 pm Lunch

1:25 – 3:30 pm:  Session 2: Circuit Analysis & Optimization

Chair: Rajendran Panda (Freescale)

Worst-case delay analysis considering the variability of transistors and interconnects (ppt)

Takayuki Fukuoka, Akira Tsuchiya and Hidetoshi Onodera

Accurate Power Grid Analysis with Behavioral Transistor Network Modeling (ppt)

Anand Ramalingam, Giri Venkata Devarayanadurg and David Z. Pan.

EMPIRE: An Efficient and Compact Multiple-Parameterized Model Order Reduction Method for Physical Optimization (ppt)

Yiyu Shi and Lei He

Repeater insertion for concurrent setup and hold time violations with power-delay trade-off (ppt)

Salim Chowdhury and John Lillis

Circuit Optimization for Leakage Power Reduction using Multi-Threshold Voltages for High Performance Microprocessors (ppt)

Jeegar Shah, Marius Evers, Jeff Trull and Alper Halbutogullari

3:30 – 4:00 pm Afternoon break

4:00 – 5:30 pm: Session 3: Panel on Rules vs Tools – What’s the right way to address IC manufacturing complexity?

Moderator: Lou Scheffer, Cadence (ppt)

Panelists: Lars Liebmann (IBM)

                 Riko Rakojcic (Qualcomm) (ppt)

                 David White (Cadence)  (ppt)  

 6:30 – 9:30 pm: Dinner Banquet

8:30 – 9:30am Session 4: Future Interconnects

Chair: Yao-Wen Chang, National Taiwan Univ.

(Invited talk) Carbon Nanotube Interconnects (pdf)

Azad Naeemi and James D. Meindl, Georgia Institute of Technology

(Invited talk) Optical Interconnects: A Viable Solution for Interconnection Beyond 10 Gbit/sec (pdf)

Ray Chen, Univ. of Texas at Austin

9:30 – 10:00 pm Morning break

10:00 – 12:05 pm Session 5: Placement

Chair: Chris Chu, Iowa State U

X-Architecture Placement Based on Effective Wire Models (ppt)

Tung-Chieh Chen, Yi-Lin Chuang and Yao-Wen Chang

A Morphing Approach to Address Placement Stability (ppt)

Philip Chong and Christian Szegedy

Mixed-Size Placement with Fixed Macrocells using Grid-Warping (ppt)

Zhong Xiu and Rob Rutenbar

An Effective Clustering Algorithm for Mixed-size Placement (ppt)

Jianhua Li and Laleh Behjat

A Stable Fixed-Outline Floorplanning Method (ppt)

Song Chen and Takeshi Yoshimura

12:05 – 1:25 pm Lunch

1:25 – 3:30 pm Session 6: Routing

Chair: Jens Lienig, TU Dresden

Efficient Obstacle-Avoiding Rectilinear Steiner Tree Construction (ppt)

Chung-Wei Lin, Szu-Yu Chen, Chi-Feng Li, Yao-Wen Chang and Chia-Lin Yang

Maze Routing Steiner Trees with Effective Critical Sink Optimization (ppt)

Renato Hentschke, Jagannathan Narasimhan, Marcelo Johann and Ricardo Reis

Semi-Detailed Bus Routing with Variation Reduction (ppt)

Fan Mo and Robert Brayton

Solving Hard Instances of FPGA Routing with a Congestion-Optimal Restrained-Norm Path Search Space (ppt)

Keith So

Algorithms for Automatic Length Compensation of Busses (ppt)

Matthew A. Smith, Lars Anton Schreiner, Erich Barke and Volker Meyer zu Bexten

3:30-4:00pm Afternoon break

4:00-5:30 pm Session 7: ISPD’07 Global Routing Contest and Placement Contest Updates

Chair: Gi-Joon Nam (IBM)

ISPD’07 Global Routing Contest (pdf)

Gi-Joon Nam, IBM

Updates of the ISPD Placement Contest (pdf)

Gi-Joon Nam, IBM

 6:30-9:30 pm: Dinner Banquet

8:30 – 10:30 am Session 8: Statistical and Physical Design for Manufacturability

Chair: Prashant Saxena, Synopsys

(Invited talk) The Good, the Bad, and the Statistical

Noel Menezes, Intel (pdf)

(Invited talk) Fear, Uncertainty and Statistics (pdf)

Chandu Visweswariah, IBM

(Invited talk) Variation and Litho Driven Physical Implementation System

Shankar Krishnamoorthy, Sierra Design Automation(pdf)

(Invited talk) A DFM Aware, Space Based Router

David Cross, Eric Nequist, and Louis Scheffer, Cadence (ppt)

10:30am – 11:00am  Morning Break

11:00—12:15pm Session 9: Clock & Interconnect

Chair: Rob Mains, Sun Microsystems

Minimal Skew Clock Embedding Considering Time Variant Temperature Variation with Automatic Correlation Extraction  (ppt)

Hao Yu, Yu Hu, Chun-chen Liu and Lei He

An Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Low Power Clock Tree Synthesis  (ppt)

Rupesh Shelar

A Methodology for Interconnect Dimension Determination  (ppt)

Jeff Cobb, Rajesh Garg and Sunil Khatri 

12:15 – 12:25  pm Closing Remarks