IFIP Working Group 10.5 Minutes Meeting

Room 3014, Moscone Center, San Francisco, 25/6/2018 (18:45-20:00)

In conjunction with DAC 2018

Attendees: Eugenio Villar, Michael Hubner, , Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Klaus D. Müller-Glaser, Ricardo Reis, Dimitrios Soudris, Luis Miguel Silveira, Ibrahim Elfadel, Ahmed Jerraya, Masahiro Fujita

Apologies: Graziano Pravadelli, L. Miguel Silveira, Chi Ying Tsui, Giovanni De Micheli, Ian O'Connor, Juergen Becker, Salvador Mir, Andrea Calimera, Matthew Guthaus, Dominique Borrione, Ayse K. Coskun, Manfred Glesner, Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Flávio Wagner, P.A.Subrahmanyam, Fatih Ugurdag, Kiyoung Choi, Lionel Torres, , Srinivas Katkoori, Luc Claesen, Tiziana Margaria, Atienza Alonso David, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Lionel Torres, Jose L. Ayala, Odysseas Koufopavlou, Adam Pawlak, Flávio Wagner, Victor Grimblatt, Donatella Sciuto,

Invited: Carlos Silva Cardenas,

Agenda

- Welcome

- Status of VLSI-SoC conferences (2018, 2019, 2020)

- MOU for VLSI-SoC conferences

- Any more proposal for VLSI-SoC 2021?

- Others if any

Welcome

The chair of the working group welcomes all the attendees.

The only freely available room was a big one (DAC regular session room).

Status of the preparation of VLSI-SoC 2018 in Verona by Masahiro Fujita on behalf of Graziano Pravadelli.

· 106 abstracts registered and 96 papers uploaded

· Review process to be completed by end of June (4 reviews per paper)

· 3 keynotes confirmed: Giovanni De Micheli (EFPL): Cyber medical systems: Requirements, Components, Design, Valeria Bertacco (U. Michigan): Reimaging scalable system designHeinz Koepple (Darmstad Univ.): Computational challenges in the design automation for synthetic biology

· 1 panel confirmed: Organizer: Said Hamdioui, Topic: “emerging non-volatile memories in enabling new computing paradigms”

· 1 possible industrial panel by Alberto Ferrari (UTRC) to be confirmed

· 4 special sessions confirmed: Lionel Torres: “Non-volatile Emerging memories – Breaking down the memory wall”. Daniel Chillet: “IoT For health, wellness and personal assistance”, Lorena Anghel: “Neuromorphic Computing - From Robust Hardware Architectures to Testing Strategies”, Heinz Riener: “Design Understanding”

· Social event: Organizing committee + WG 10.5 dinner on Sunday evening, Welcome reception on Monday evening, Wine tasting tour on Tuesday late afternoon + dinner, Visit to the city of Verona (to be decided when. Some monuments will close early in the afternoon)

· Co-located PhD School (5-7 October): 4 speakers confirmed (Todd Austin, Medhi Tahoori, Said Hamdioui, Daniela De Venuto)

Final budget issues will be fixed once the number of registrations becomes available.

Status of the preparation of VLSI-SoC 2019 in Cuzco by Carlos Silva Cardenas

Preparation is on schedule. The details will be presented at the next WG meeting at Verona.

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

Preparation is on schedule. The details will be presented at the next WG meeting at Verona.

MOU for VLSI-SoC conferences

Multi-year MOU has been prepared and proposed. It has been approved by the people who attended the meeting.

Any more proposal for VLSI-SoC 2021?

No new proposal is given in the meeting, but there are already 3-4 proposals (York, Mumbai, Singapore???, ???) for VLSI-SoC 2021. In the next meeting at Verona in conjunct with VLSI-SoC 2018, the selection will be performed.

Others

Ricardo mentioned that the two submissions from our WG members to the IoT workshop which will be held in conjunct with WCC of IFIP in September in Poland have both been accepted. There are around 30 submissions. That workshop can be a continuous one.

Next meeting: Verona, Italy, October 2018, in conjunction with VLSI-SoC 2018