Welcome to ISPD 2007

The International Symposium on Physical Design

Austin, Texas March 18th-21st

General Chair: Patrick H. Madden

Steering Committee

•Patrick Groeneveld (Magma)

•Lou Scheffer (Cadence)

•Desmond Kirkpatrick (Intel)

•Dennis Sylvester (Michigan)

•Paul Villarrubia (IBM)

The TPC• David Pan (Chair)• Ulrich Brenner• Yao-Wen Chang• Kai-Yuan Chao• Chris Chu• Bill Halpin• Xianlong Hong• Frank Johannes• Hardy Leung• Jens Lienig• Sung-Kyu Lim• Rob Mains

•Patrick McGuinness•Gi-Joon Nam•Shigetoshi Nakatake•David Newmark•Ray Nijssen•Dave Noice•Hidetoshi Onodera•Yegna Parasuram•Rob Rutenbar•Prashant Saxena•Toshi Shibuya•Hai Zhou

The Program

•22 accepted papers

•Invited Talks from IBM, Sun, Intel, Cadence, Sierra, Georgia Tech, UT Austin

Best Paper

•Variability-Driven Formulation for Simultaneous Gate Sizing and Post-Silicon Tunability Allocation

•Vishal Khandelwal and Prof. Ankur Srivastava from UMCP

•Session 1, paper 3

Logistics

•Breakfast every day near the conference room

•Lunch/Dinner in the adjoining room on M&T

•Drink tickets for dinner (2 per night)

•WiFi should be open for all

The Routing Contest

Support from IEEE/CEDA and SRC

•Gi-Joon Nam (Publications Chair) in charge

•17 teams signed up; 10 survived

•Winners to be announced tomorrow

•Think you know who won? Fill out the score sheet correctly to win!

2008?

•US? International?

•Please fill out the survey for your preferences!

Thank You• ACM for sponsorship, and IEEE CAS for technical co-

sponsorship.

• To the corporate support from Cadence, IBM, Intel, Magma, Sierra, Sun, Synopsys, and Tabula.

• IEEE/CEDA and SRC for sponsoring the Routing Contest.

• The TPC and the steering committee for putting together a program.

• The authors and speakers.

• And you! Thank you for coming to Austin!

Keynote

•Jim Kahle (IBM): Cell Architecture - Key Physical Design Features and Methodology