Day 1: Saturday, April 8 |
09:00 - 10:00 |
Breakfast |
10:00 - 10:15 |
Chair's Welcome |
10:15 - 12:00 |
Embedded tutorial: |
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Managing Interconnect Resources, Phillip
Christie (U. Delaware) |
12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch |
13:00 - 14:30 |
Session P1: Interconnect Technology Prediction |
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Theoretical Limits For Signal
Reflections Due To Inductance For On-chip Interconnections, D.
Deschacht, F. Huret, G. Servel, E. Paleczny, and P. Kennis (C.N.R.S., France) |
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Power Supply Design Parameters
Prediction For High-Performance IC Design Flows, M. Graziano, M.
Delaurenti, G. Masera, G. Piccinini, and M. Zamboni (Politecnico di Torino,
Italy) |
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Energy-Efficient High-Speed On-chip
Signaling In Deep-SubMicron CMOS Technology, Imed Ben Dhaou and
Hannu Tenhunen (KTH, Sweden) |
14:30 - 15:00 |
Discussion |
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- D1: Measurement techniques for interconnect estimation,
Dennis Sylvester (Synopsys) |
15:00 - 15:30 |
Break |
15:30 - 16:30 |
Invited talk: |
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Performance Analysis and Technology of
3-D ICs, Krishna C. Saraswat (Stanford): |
16:30 - 18:00 |
Session P2: System-level Prediction |
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Pre-layout Estimation of Individual Wire Length, Srinivas
Bodapati (UIUC) and Farid Najm (U. Toronto, Canada) |
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Efficient Representation of Interconnection
Length Distributions Using Generating Polynomials, Dirk
Stroobandt and Herwig Van Marck (Ghent U., Belgium) |
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Prediction of Interconnect Fan-out
Distribution Using Rent's Rule, P. Zarkesh-Ha, J. Davis, W. Loh
and J. Meindl (GA Tech) |
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Day 2: Sunday, April 9 |
07:30 - 08:30 |
Breakfast |
08:30 - 10:00 |
Session P3: Multi-layer Architectures |
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Wiring Layer Assignments with
Consistent Stage Delays, Andrew B. Kahng (UCLA) and Dirk
Stroobandt (Ghent U., Belgium) |
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Vertical Pitch Limitations on Performance
Enhancement in Bonded Three-Dimensional Interconnect Architectures, J.
W. Joyner, P. Zarkesh-Ha, J. A. Davis and J. D. Meindl (GA Tech) |
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Cost Based Tradeoff Analysis of Standard Cell
Design, Peng Li, Pranab K. Nag and Wojciech Maly (CMU) |
10:00 - 10:30 |
Break |
10:30 - 11:30 |
Invited talk: |
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Real-Life Aspects of IC Routing That
Make Interconnect Prediction Hard, Eric Nequist and Lou Scheffer
(Cadence): |
11:30 - 12:30 |
Discussions |
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- D2: Projections of Interconnect
Limits and Optimal n-tier Architectures Jeff Davis (GA Tech), |
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- D3:, Estimation and Removal of Routing Congestion,
Amir Farrahi (IBM Watson) |
13:00 - |
Workshop lunch at Sea World |