IFIP Working Group 10.5 Minutes Meeting

Santa Cruz, CA, 7/10/2012) 
Dream Inn Hotel

Notes taken by Salvador Mir and Dominique Borrione

Attendees: Dominique Borrione, Andreas Burg (invited), Kiyoung Choi, Luc Claesen, Ayse Coskun, Matthew R. Guthaus, Takashi Kambe, Salvador Mir, Roberto Murphy (invited), Tobias Noll (invited), Ricardo Reis, Luis Miguel Silveira (by Skype), P.A. Subrahmanyam, Reydezel Torres Torres (invited), H. Fatih Ugurdad (invited), Flávio Rech Wagner

Apologies: David Atienza, Juergen Becker, Nikil Dutt, Manfred Glesner, Reiner Hartenstein, Michael Hübner, Masaharu Imai, Ahmed Jerraya, Klaus Müller-Glaser, Wolfgang Nebel,, Ian O'Connor, , Franz J. Rammig, Michel Robert, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Donatella Sciuto, Leandro Soares Indrusiak , Lionel Torres, Chi-Ying Tsui.

The minutes are complemented by several slide presentations used during the meeting, which are attached as a separate documents. Contents of the slide presentations are not necessarily repeated in the minutes.

Agenda

1. Approval of the minutes of the San Francisco Meeting

2. Update on the organization of VLSI-SOC 2013 by Fatih Ugurdag,

3. Presentation of candidate proposals for future editions and decision for the location of VLSI-SOC 2014:

- IIT Mumbai (Proposed by Virendra Singh for 2014)

- Mexico (Proposed by Ricardo Reis for 2014)

- Boston (Proposed by Ayse Coskun, Boston University, supported by Martin Margala, UMass Amherst for 2015)

- Aachen (Presented by Prof. Tobias Noll or by Upasna Vishnoi for 2014)

4. Discussion on the VLSI-SOC Steering Committee principles of operation

5. Any other business

For reasons of availability of Tobias Noll, points 2 and 3 of the agenda are exchanged.

1- Minutes of San Francisco meeting

The minutes of the San Francisco meeting (June 2012) are approved unanimously. These minutes are posted on the WG web site:

http://tima.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/ifip/wg10-5/Minutes/2012-06-SanFrancisco.htm

2- Presentation of candidate locations for VLSI-SOC 2014 and selection

2.1 Presentation of Aachen (Germany) by Tobias Noll, VLSI-SoC’ 14

T. Noll mentioned to M. Glesner his interest for organizing the conference in Aachen during VLSI-SoC’10 in Madrid.

Aachen is close to Brussels, and can be reached by the following airports: Brussels, Köln, Maastrich. The city has good public transportation.

Presentation available on the Web server from tomorrow on: //www.eecs.rwth-aachen.de

Aachen University has 33000 students among whom 5000 are international students (900 from China). The University has 9 faculties, 4 of Engineering, core of the University, one in Electrical Eng. and Information technology with 24 Full Professors. It is one of the 11 universities of excellence in Germany, which received 3 billion Euros for this excellence.

Several locations are considered for VLSI-SOC’14:

SuperC Building, a center for conferences and workshops in the University facilities. Two big rooms for up to 190 persons, each can be rented for 315€/day

Eurogress Convention Center.

Novotel City Aachen . Rooms hold 150-190 persons (rates have to be negociated).

Conference banquet would be at the City Hall

A range of hotels located 5-10 minutes away with Public Transportation

Collaboration from research centers in Jullich and The Netherlands

General Chair: Tobias Noll. Rest of the Committee to be found.

Proposal holds for 2014, since retirement of T. Noll in 2016, thus difficult for 2015.

There will be an important participation of local PhD students.

2.2 Presentation of Playa del Carmen (Mexico) by Roberto Murphy, VLSI-SoC’14

Mayan Riviera (Cancun peninsula), one hour south from Cancun. Reached by International airport Cancun, then bus or collective taxi

Interesting places: Mayan ruins (Tulum: 1 hour, Chichen Itza: 3 hours), ecological parks (Xcaret, Xelha), Isla Cozumel (diving, reefs): 1 hour by ferry.

Large variety of hotels

Organized by INAOE Institute from Puebla, 35 researchers in the Electronics Department, with the largest group in Microelectronics

Many conferences organized in the past. Will bring 10 staff to the conference location.

General co-chairs: Arturo Sarmiento and Ricardo Reis

TPC Chairs to be decided.

Local arrangements: Reydezel Torres

No location yet identified since many alternatives, but top Hotel at 170$/night (all inclusive)

20 to 30 k$ of sponsorship from the Institute expected

2 to 10 k$ from Intel, Freescale

Participation of local people should be good (Puebla, Mexico city, Guadalajara, …)

Suggested dates: beginning of October.

2.3 Presentation Mumbai (India), Virendra Singh, VLSI-SoC’14

Virendra could not attend. He has sent an update of the presentation, including also the possibility of doing the conference in Jaipur. Remarks of previous presentations have been addressed in an e-mail sent to the Steering Committee.

Salvador Mir read his slides and message.

The proposal cannot be retained since there has never been an on-site presentation by Virendra Singh during a WG meeting.

2.4 Selection of location: a large majority of participants voted for Mexico.

3- Update on VLSI-SoC 2013 by Fatih Ugurdag

Istanbul, Turkey. Dates: October 7-9.

ES-Week in 2013 will be the week before.

The Call for Papers is printed and handed to the participants. It is available for the VLSI-SOC’12 participants, and will be brought to ICCAD by Matthew.

Contract with Novotel is already signed

Signature with IEEE CAS still pending.

The PC will be formed shortly after the end of VLSI-SOC’12, with the recommendations of the VLSI-SOC’12 PC Chairs.

4- Report on SBCCI 2012 by Ricardo

The conference attendance was close to 400, including a co-located workshop.

Ricardo distributed the Call for Papers of SBCCI 2013, to be held in Curitiba, Brazil, September 3-6.

5. Steering Committee of VLSI-SOC

This point was postponed for the next WG meeting due to the lack of time.

The IFIP WG 10.5 meeting was immediately followed by a TPC meeting for VLSI-SOC. 2012.

Next meeting

Grenoble, March 2013, in conjunction with DATE