IFIP Working Group 10.5 Minutes Meeting

San Francisco, 06/09/2015 (18:00-20:00)
In conjunction with DAC 2015

Notes taken by Srinivas Katkoori

Attendees: Kiyoung Choi, Matthew Guthaus, Michael Hübner, Takashi Kambe, Srinivas Katkoori, Martin Margala, Ricardo Reis

Apologies: David Atienza, Juergen Becker, Dominique Borrione, Luc Claesen, Giovanni De Micheli, Nikil Dutt, Reiner Hartenstein, Odysseas Koufopavlou , Salvador Mir, Wolfgang Nebel, Ian O'Connor, Adam Pawlak, Franz Rammig, Flávio Rech Wagner, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Luis Miguel Silveira, Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Dimitrios Soudris, Alexander Stempkovsky, Lionel Torres, Fatih Ugurdag, Eugenio Villar

Invited: Martin Margala, Ibrahim Elfadel, Naeyhyuck Chang, Jaan Raik, Kiyoung Choi

Agenda

• Welcome Participants

• Minutes Grenoble meeting approved by e-mail by participants, see

• http://tima.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/ifip/wg10-5/Minutes/2015_03_10_Minutes_IFIP_WG_10_5.htm

• Update on the organization of VLSI-SOC 2015

• Update on the organization of VLSI-SOC 2016

• Proposals for the organization of VLSI-SOC 2017

• AOB

Welcome

Srinivas welcomed the attendees.

Approval of the minutes of Grenoble Meeting

Approved by the attendees, and posted on the web site of the WG.

Status of preparation of VLSI-SoC 2015 by Kiyoung Choi

( see attached slides)

• 10 Tracks
• 138 abstracts received
• 118 papers received (lower than expected); potentially due to conflict with ESWEEK
• Acceptance Rate:
• Regular: 41%
• Regular + Poster: 56%
• PhD Forum
• Abstracts will be included in the soft proceedings distributed at the conference
• Suggested to have printed proceedings for PhD forum only at conference
• No inclusion in the final proceedings
• Make this clear in the CFP for the PhD Forum
• Partial grants available for students from non-emerging countries
• MOU – Copyright issue between IFIP/IEEE
• The conference organizers (Kiyoung Choi) got an MOU in place with the following parties signed IEEE CASS, CEDA, KIISE (Korean Info of Scientists and Engineers). The following parties still need to sign: IEEE and IFIP (WG10.5 Chair).
• Srinivas volunteered to help Kiyoung with the extension of the MOU with IFIP and IEEE as signatories.

Tallinn status of preparation for VLSI-SoC 2016

No update for VLSI-SOC 2016

Proposals for VLSI-SoC 2017

Boston Proposal (Martin Margala)

(see attached slides)

Dr. Martin Margala presented a proposal for VLSI-SOC 2017 to be held in Boston, Massachusetts.

Clearwater Proposal (Srinivas Katkoori)

(see attached slides)

Srinivas Katkoori presented a proposal for VLSI-SOC 2017 to be held in Clearwater, Florida.

Abu Dahbi Proposal (Ibrahim Elfadel)

(see attached slides)

Ibrahim Elfadel was unable to attend the meeting due to a conflicting DAC poster session, but sent the slides afterwards.

Next meeting: Daejeon, South Korea, Venue of VLSI-SoC, October 2015