IFIP Working Group 10.5 Minutes Meeting

 

Dresden, 21/3/2018 (12:30-14:30)

 

In conjunction with DATE 2018

 

 

 

Notes taken by Masahiro Fujita and Salvador Mir

 

Attendees: L. Miguel Silveira, Chi Ying Tsui, Eugenio Villar, Michael Hubner, Franco Fummi (Representing Graziano Pravadelli), Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Giovanni De Micheli, Ian O'Connor, Juergen Becker, Salvador Mir, Andrea Calimera

 

Apologies: Matthew Guthaus, Dominique Borrione, Ayse K. Coskun, Manfred Glesner, Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Ricardo Reis, Fl‡vio Wagner, P.A.Subrahmanyam, Fatih Ugurdag, Kiyoung Choi, Lionel Torres, Dimitrios Soudris, Srinivas Katkoori, Luc Claesen, Tiziana Margaria, Atienza Alonso David, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Lionel Torres, Jose L. Ayala, Odysseas Koufopavlou, Adam Pawlak, Fl‡vio Wagner, Victor Grimblatt, Donatella Sciuto, Ibrahim Elfadel

 

Invited: Virendra Singh, Aleksandr Ivannikol (representing Aleksandr Stemphobydvi, invited)

 

Agenda

 

New member: Prof. Andrea Calimera

IFIP awards nomination

-        Fellow (this year Ricardo)

-        Silver Core and Service award

VLSI-SoC 2018, 2019, and 2020

Future issues

 

Introduction of new member : Andrea Calimera

 

-        Andrea presented himself and his research directions in the area of design automation for digital ICs at various levels of abstraction:

o   Low-power and reliability (nanometric CMOS technologies)

o   Emerging technologies (graphene and ambipolar technologies)

o   Data-flow computing (deep-learning)

-        Andrea is already well implicated in the organization of VLSI-SoC

 

 

IFIP Award nomination

 

-        Ricardo Reis has been selected for nomination as IFIP Fellow this year.

-        Masahiro proposes to discuss a more formal procedure via the WG to nominate people for the IFIP Awards. The nomination is done over the website of IFIP. IFIP introduced IFIP fellowships this year and we need a procedure to suggest members, probably via the WG.

-        We should put in the minutes a link to the website of IFIP awards and weÕll put this link in the website of the WG. The IFIP awards webpage describes the different awards (Silver Core, Service Award, Fellowship).

http://www.ifip.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=148&Itemid=554

 

 

Status of the preparation of VLSI-SoC 2018 in Verona by Franco Fummi

 

-        Searching for industrial sponsorships

-        Technical program:

o   1 more keynote to be appointed from Asia

o   1 or 2 embedded tutorials to be defined

o   Panel: organized by Said Hamdioui

-        Break even has been set at 90 participants. A detailed and complete financial analysis has been presented to the WG.

 

Status of the preparation of VLSI-SoC 2019 in Cuzco by Giovanni de Micheli

 

-        CFP has been distributed at DATEÕ18.

-        The Event Request Form needs to be completed.

-        The hotel location is already defined.

 

Status of the preparation of VLSI-SoC 2020 in Salt Lake City by Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon

 

-        Venue: UofU Conference Center

-        Prize range for the Hotel: 119-159 $ (Wifi, breakfast)

-        Expected revenue: 64 k$ = expected expenses

 

Proposal for the organization of VLSI-SoC 2021 by Virendra Singh

 

Virendra Singh joined the WG meeting to present an application for the organization of VLSI-SoC 2021:

-        IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

-        Organized within campus, Victor Menezes Convention Centre than can house up to 400 people in the large auditorium, 6 conference halls for 200 persons, exhibition space, É

-        Dates: mid-October, Sunday to Wednesday

-        Co-general chairs: Prof. V. Singh, M.S. Gaur director IIT Jammu

-        Vice-general chair: Prof. Anzehla Matrosokova

-        Programs chairs: Prof. Michiko Inoue

-        Nearby hotels with hotel transport organized by the conference

 

The application is similar to the one done in 2014. Virendra should present the application during the VLSI-SoC meeting in Verona.

He is also interested in joining the WG.

The organization of VLSI-SoC 2021 should go to Asia (after Daejeon, South Korea in 2015). The members of the Steering Committee from Asia (Masahiro, Chi-Ying) should study with Virendra this application. Salvador notes that Chi-Ying mentioned in the past the possibility of organizing the event in Singapore.

 

Next meeting: San Francisco, June 2018, in conjunction with DAC 2018