IFIP Working Group 10.5
Minutes Meeting
Lausanne Congress Center, 03/29/2017 (12:45-14:30)In conjunction with DATE 2017
Notes taken by Dominique Borrione, revised by Masahiro Fujita
Attendees: Dominique Borrione, Kiyoung Choi, Ibrahim Elfadel, Masahiro
Fujita, Ahmed Jerraya, Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon,
Salvador Mir, Ian O'Connor, Graziano Pravadelli, Donatella Sciuto, Luis Miguel Silveira, Alexander
Stempkovskiy, Chi-Ying Tsui, Fatih Ugurdag(by Skype), Marilyn Wolf
Apologies:
Takashi Kambe,
Carlos Silva Cardenas, Luc Claesen, Atienza Alonso David, Eugenio Villar, Juergen
Becker, Nikil Dutt, Tiziana Margaria, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Michael Huebner, Jerraya
Ahmed, Dimitrios Soudris, Ricardo Reis
Agenda
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Welcome
¥ Welcoming new members: Prof. Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon and Prof. Ibrahim (Abe) Elfadel
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Status of
VLSI-SoC 2017
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Status of
VLSI-SoC 2018
¥ Status of VLSI-SoC 2019 (Prof. Carlos Silva Cardenas may not be coming but he will attend the next meeting at VLSI-SoC 2017)
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Sponsorship
of FDL 2017
¥ Others such as proposals for VLSI-SoC 2020
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AOB
Welcome
Masahiro welcomes all the attendees and introduces the two new members: Prof. Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon and Prof. Ibrahim (Abe) Elfadel
Pierre-Emmanuel
Gaillardon presents his
research at University of Utah
Abe Elfadel presents his CV and activities at
Masdar Institute and Khalifa University
Status of preparation of VLSI-SoC 2017 by Abe Elfadel
See attached slides. Information on slides is not repeated here.
The Conference website and submission page are online.
Already 3 papers have been submitted.
Track chairs and TPC members are named. There are 10 tracks and roughly 10 TPC members/track.
The Call for Papers has been largely distributed by e-mail, also printed copies have been brought at various conferences.
The pile of printed copies on display at DATE'17 is rapidly lowering, showing that people are taking the Call.
4 levels of company sponsorship are presented, with increasing
benefits.
A surplus of $10,000 is planned on the budget, assuming a sponsorship of $70,000.
If that sponsorship is not obtained, there will be a reduction of expenses on the awards and on the gala dinner.
In the discussion that follows, it is felt that the requested money for sponsorship is too high, and the foreseen amount of sponsorship is too optimistic.
Companies to be asked for sponsorship should be local or regional.
In comparison, Fatih recalls the numbers for VLSI-SoC in Istanbul: 190 attendees, total budget: $150,000, total sponsorship: $30,000.
Sponsors should be offered more than visibility, which they feel they already have. For instance, they could have a session with students, or a special session in the conference.
The organizing committee is requested to evaluate the budget for different number of attendees.
There is still work to be done on invited speakers.
It is felt by group members that some invited speakers should be regional, to give a regional visibility of scientists and industry leaders.
Abe proposes to have a new workshop on Photonic SoCs on Thursday October 26, 2017, organized in cooperation with VLSI-SoC 2017.
A reduced fee would be offered to VLSI-SoC attendees to register to the workshop.
How many people would register to the workshop only? No one had a clue.
This is a first time experiment, with the hope that the workshop could become a conference of its own.
A budget of around $10,000 would be needed for space and lunch for 80 people.
Status of preparation of VLSI-SoC 2018 by Graziano Pravadelli
See attached slides. Information on slides is not repeated here.
Graziano presents his preferred location, and a conservative budget without any sponsorship.
Status of VLSI-SoC 2019
Prof. Carlos Silva Cardenas could not come to Lausanne, but he will attend the meeting at VLSI-SoC 2017
Request for Sponsorship of FDL 2017 by Graziano Pravadelli
See attached slides. Information on slides is not repeated here.
FDL 2017 will take place in Verona, Italy. General Chair: Franco Fummi.
Several past FDL events were sponsored in previous years.
The requested sponsorship is scientific, without financial implication.
The working group agrees to the sponsorship of FDL 2017.
Next meeting: in
conjunction with DAC 2017