IFIP Working Group 10.5 Minutes Meeting

Abu Dhabi, 22/10/2017 (16:00-19:30)
In conjunction with VLSI-SoC 2017

Notes taken by Dominique Borrione

Corrections by Masahiro Fujita and Ricardo Reis

Attendees: Dominique Borrione, Kiyoung Choi, Ibrahim Elfadel, Masahiro Fujita, Manfred Glesner, Tiziana Margaria (online), Salvador Mir, Luciano Ost, Graziano Pravadelli, Ricardo Reis, Chi-Ying Tsui, Fatih Ugurdag

Apologies: Jose L. Ayala, Jürgen Becker, Andrea Calimera, Luc Claesen, Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Reiner W. Hartenstein, Michael Hübner, Srinivas Katkoori, Ian O'Connor, Franz Rammig, Flávio Rech Wagner, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Donatella Sciuto, Luis Miguel Silveira, Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Eugenio Villar

Invited: Nicola Bombieri, Carlos Silva-Cardenas

Agenda

• Welcome and approval of minutes of previous meeting

• Status of VLSI-SOC 2016 book

• Status of VLSI-SOC 2017

• Status of preparation of VLSI-SoC 2018

• Status of preparation of VLSI-SoC 2019

• Application for VLSI-SoC 2020

• Application for VLSI-SoC 2021

• Discussions on cross-domain conference on IoT, September 18-20, 2018 in Poznan 

• IFIP Fellow award

• AOB

Welcome and presentation of minutes of previous meeting

Masahiro thanks our host Ibrahim Elfadel for organizing the venue of the meeting.

Ricardo Reis presents the minutes of meeting during DAC which have been approved. Not well attended, because the Tuesday was conflicting with many other meetings.

It is suggested that the next time, the meeting at DAC should be on Wednesday evening (not noon).

Status of VLSI-SOC'16 book by Ricardo Reis

The book of VLSI-SoC 2016 revised best papers (VLSI-SOC'16 book) is already published. It is available for free access to the participants of VLSI-SOC 2017 and during 4 weeks, on line on the web site of Springer, but when accessed from VLSI-SoC 2017 website. The Books related to VLSI-SoC from 1997 to nowadays are also freely accessible from the conference website during these 4 weeks (until Nov.23).

Status of VLSI-SOC 2017 by Ibrahim Elfadel

There was a PC meeting just before, where all the information about the programme was presented.

Ibrahim presents the 3 social events.

Welcome address: a state minister for education was scheduled to give the welcome address, but the ministries have been changed last Tuesday.

100 participants, 85 paying registrations

26 K$ revenue from registrations + industry and institutions support:

• Cadence : 2000$,
• New York University : 2400$ paying the expenses of one keynote speaker,
• Khalifa University supported 6 registrations and one keynote,
• Support of Masdar Institute for the website

9 foreign PhD students in the PhD forum. They should get support from IFIP.

The programme also includes a local students poster session.

Manfred and Ricardo will have podium time to tell the history of VLSI-SoC and celebrate the 25^th anniversary of VLSI-SoC.

Status of preparation of VLSI-SOC 2018 by Graziano Pravadelli

See attached slides. Information on slides is not repeated here.

The Roseo hotel Leon d’Oro has been reserved. 1km away from city center. There are many other hotels nearby (see list in slides).

A theme has been selected for the conference: see slide

A PhD School could be organized in cooperation with Politecnico di Torino. Still to be decided.

ESWEEK will be in Turin in the week of Sept 30 to Oct 5;

Lectures of the PhD school will be on Oct 5-7

VLSI-SoC on Oct 8-10.

Students could attend either ESWEEK+PhD School or PhD School+VLSI-SoC

Turin – Verona: 2:30 hours of train.

Conservative budget, based on IEEE fee only, and only support of 3K€ sponsorship from University of Verona.

Break even point: 90 participants paying IEEE fee

Call for Papers has already been distributed to several conferences, by people from Verona and by Ricardo. Graziano brought paper copies of the Preliminary Call for Papers to be included in the conference material of the VLSI-SoC’17 attendees.

Remarks: the list of Steering Committee is to be updated. Salvador Mir will send information to Graziano.

Logos: one more to be added.

The WG agrees that it is OK to replace a gift to the attendees by a donation to a non-profit organization.

Social activities:

• Monday evening: welcome reception in a good pizzeria
• Social event: several alternatives

1. 2-hours guided tour of the city + dinner in a restaurant in the city center

2. Wine tour moving around the hills, and dining in one of the villas

3. Going to the Garda lake (keep for the last day?)

The invitations to the TPC are not yet sent, should be started next week.

Salvador reminds that an invitation should be sent to WG members to involve them. To be done prior to inviting other people in the TPC.

Report on FDL 2017, Graziano Pravadelli

Technical co-sponsorship from IFIP WG10.5 without financial implication.

See attached slides. Information on slides is not repeated here

Sept 18-20 2017 in Verona.

FDL no longer organized by ECSI.

The name will change, not the acronym : design languages are no longer a big thing; papers are on verification, embedded software, multi-core

HLDVT: another conference, last week in Santa Cruz, 30 attendees

There is a question about the possibility of merge. But there is a problem with the geographical tradition of these events : HLDVT is mainly in Northern America and came to Europe only once; FDL is European.

Masahiro reported that having HLDVT in Europe a second time had been suggested but has not been decided during HLDVT’17.

Decision: Next FDL’18 will be supported by WG10.5, as previously : technical co-sponsorship from IFIP WG10.5 without financial implication.

Status of organization of VLSI-SoC 2019 by Carlos Silva-Cardenas, Pontifical Catholic University of Perù (PUCP), Cuzco

See attached slides. Information on slides is not repeated here.

PUCP has the experience of organizing many conferences in Cusco, Perù.

They are used to work with the convention center.

Two hotels nearby: 120$ and 100$ per night

A draft call for papers is distributed during the meeting, to be completed with many Chair names.

Provisional date: October 6-9, 2019.

ESWEEK date not known at this time, they don’t have a fixed week.

Discussion about the date. Salvador proposes to make a Doodle and ask the WG members to answer the preferred date.

Proposal for the organization of VLSI-SoC 2020

5-7 October in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Proposal was presented at the previous meeting at DAC.

Masahiro Fujita presents the slides of Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, who could not come to this meeting.

Beginning of October: no snow. This is why they propose 1^st week of October.

The proposal gives two alternatives:

• The Conference Center on the campus of University of Utah (Salt Lake City)
• A Conference Center in Snow Bird (a ski resort). Hotel rooms would be more expensive.

In the budget, the IFIP fee is not included.

The option of the campus would be preferable for cost reasons, and for student accommodation.

Convention Center and Hotel at Campus are in neighboring buildings.

Attendance in the USA is always low.

In Salt Lake City, there is a tram service between the airport and campus, going through down town.

The Working Group approves to have VLSI-SoC 2020 in Utah.

Preference for University of Utah Campus.

Proposal for the organization of VLSI-SoC 2021, York, GB, by Luciano Ost

Joint proposal of Luciano Ost and Leandro Indrusiak.

See slides

Luciano and Leandro have looked at several options in York. Luciano presents their preferred two. Both have a cost of 15K£ for 100 participants

• University of York;
• Principal Hotel York, in city center, in front of train station; there are other hotels around.

The main reason for having VLSI-SoC 2021 in Great Britain is the celebration of the Conference 40^th anniversary. The Conference first venue was Edinburgh.

Salvador feels 2021 would be the turn of Asia, and would like to give a chance to an Asian proposal. Also, we are 4 years ahead of time. Ricardo support the idea to celebrate the 40^th anniversary in UK. The last VLSI-SoC edition in UK was in Edinburgh in 1991.

After discussion in the group, it is voted to postpone the final decision on the venue of VLSI-SoC 2021 to the WG meeting in October 2018.

Cross Domain Conference and Committee on IoT, by Ricardo Reis

A draft Call for Papers was sent by Riccardo. The conference is to be held September 18-20 2018 in Poznan, Poland as part of the World Computer Congress

Can we propose some members to the Program Committee?

The idea is to discuss IoT from the point of view of different communities, and have people from different WG.

Chi-Ying Tsui and Ibrahim Elfadel are interested in participating.

IFIP Fellow award

New award. TC chairs are requested to nominate people before Feb. 28, 2018

Salvador proposes Ricardo.

There is a form to be filled for each nomination.

Ricardo says we should nominate 3 or 4 people.

Ricardo and Dominique with the help of added volunteer members will constitute a committee to make nomination proposals.

AOB

Ricardo has done a short report about SBCCI. The 2017 was organized at Fortaleza, and it was a successful edition. SBCCI is being co-sponsored by WG10.5 since year 2000.

Ricardo also distributed the SBCCI 2018 Call for Papers, which will celebrate 35 years next year. SBCCI 2018 will be organized in Bento Gonçalves, Brazil (about 120 km from Porto Alegre), the main Brazilian wine region.
SBCCI2019 will be in São Paulo.

Next meeting: Dresden, March 2018, in conjunction with DATE 2018