IFIP Working Group 10.5
Minutes Meeting
Firenze, 27/3/2019 (12:30-14:30)
In conjunction with DATE conference 2019
Masahiro Fujita with the help of Prof. Salvador
Mir
Attendees: L. Miguel Silveira, Eugenio Villar,
Michael Hubner, Graziano Pravadelli, Giovanni De Micheli, Ian O'Connor,
Salvador Mir, Andrea Calimera, Fatih Ugurdag, Lionel Torres, Tiziana Margaria, Donatella
Sciuto, Ahmed Jerraya, Masahiro Fujita, Ricardo Reis (Skype)
Apologies:
Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Franz Rammig, Nikil Dutt, Maciej Ogorzalek, Srinivas
Katkoori, Ibrahim Elfadel, Kiyoung Choi
Invited: Matteo
Sonza-Reorda
Agenda
l Status of
the preparation of VLSI-SoC 2019 in Cuzco
l Status of
the preparation of VLSI-SoC 2020 in Salt Lake City
l Status of the
preparation of VLSI-SoC 2021 in Singapore
l Future
issues
l WG Awards
Committee
l New
member: Prof. Matteo Sonza-Reorda
l Any Other
Business
The meeting room has been assigned automatically to us
by the DATE organization this year.
Status
of the preparation of VLSI-SoC 2019 in Cuzco by Giovanni de Micheli
The organization is running smoothly.
Two special sessions are already under proposal.
3 invited speakers and other invited talks are already
set.
Panel to be seen once all the submissions are in and
the program is clarified.
It may be ideal to have Lima to Cuzco flight in the
morning, since sometimes there are turbulences in the afternoon.
Memory of Understanding for VLSI-SoC 2019 is still
under signing as part of multi-year MOU
Final data will be made available for the DAC meeting.
There is a demand to the General Chair to see if they
will organize some additional social activities by the end of the conference,
so that the participants can organize their trip.
Website of VLSI-SoC19:
Misses Special Sessions Call with the procedure to
apply
TPC is not yet online
TPC members did not receive any e-mail to submit
papers and encourage participation
We need to send last publicity calls
Adk the General Chair to put the required information
on line and encourage WG members to make submissions
Status
of the preparation of VLSI-SoC 2020 in Salt Lake City by Andrea Calimera
The General Chair is arriving to DATE19 late in the
evening
There are no specific news to
mention.
Multi-year Memory of Understanding for VLSI-SoC which
will cover 2019-2021 is still under singing.
Status
of the preparation of VLSI-SoC 2021 in Singapore
Check that the general chair received the acceptance from IFIP (Chair of
WG will send it).
There is a consensus that the timeframe of VLSI-SoC
2021 is in October instead of September.
Multi-year Memory of Understanding for VLSI-SoC which
will cover 2019-2021 is still under singing
Future
issues
Following the decisions of the WG in the meeting in
Verona (VLSI-SoC18), the organizers of a proposal for VLSI-SoC21 in York were
invited by the Steering Committee Chair to present a proposal for 2022. There
was no answer to this invitation and they did not participate in the DATE19
meeting.
The WG Chair will send an e-mail
to the WG in order to seek proposals for the organization of the conference in
2022, with a priority in Europe.
The minutes of the last meeting are missing online and
this poses problems to know the status of the organization of the different
events (now it is under processing).
WG Awards
Committee
Three IFIP awards are now open:
(1) The IFIP Fellow Award, presented every year. IFIP's most prestigious technical distinction. Conferred to a
current or past member of an IFIP body in recognition of outstanding
contributions in the field of Information Processing as a Technical Leader, Scientist,
Engineer or Educator.
The EC has decided to extend the deadline for
nominations to June 15th, 2019.
Up to 48 Fellow awards may be made in 2019. The
nomination process for Fellows is considerably more complex and time-consuming
than for other awards so starting early is strongly recommended. As well as
completing a nomination form you will need to collect forms completed by five
referees and (optionally) one or two 'endorsers' and upload them all with the
nomination form. Referees and endorsers need not be members of the GA.
Proposers for Fellow also need not be GA members. Details of who may act as proposer,
referee and endorser are given on the website.
We will do the same as last
year for the nomination.
(2) The Silver Core: Deadline for
nominations is July 15th, 2019.
(3) The Service Award: Deadline
for nominations is July 15th, 2019.
IFIP Fellow: our last application failed over the
website of IFIP (with the nomination of Ricardo Reis). We have complained about
this.
Ricardo Reis suggests to have
a WG Awards Committee to make nominations. The WG members should be asked to
make nominations to be considered by the Awards Committee.
It is decided to have a WG Awards Committee formed by
3 persons: the WG Chair, an old member and a recent member.
The following people have committed to participate in
this Committee:
Masahiro Fujita/Working Group Chair
Tziana Margaritta (old member)
Graziano Pravadelli (recent member)
The WG Awards Committee will ask for nominations to
the WG. Application to be done by June this year.
We can ask Dominique Borrione as chair of the Conference
Service Award to make a proposal for the coming year.
Introduction
of new member: Matteo Sonza-Reorda
Matteo Sonza-Reorda is a very well-known
professor at Politecnico de Torino, Italy.
His research is in the area of system level test.
Matteo is already well implicated in the organization
of VLSI-SoC and has been Program Co-chair in the past.
Next meeting
San Francisco, June 2019, in conjunction
with DAC 2019.
Tuesday is the preferred date for the following expected
participants: Fujita, Jerraya, Villar
(WG meeting at DAC has been fixed to Tuesday, June 4, 6-8pm)
Any
Other Business
FDL wants to be sponsored by IFIP. The working group
validates the addition of this conference to the WG10.5. Other conferences in
this working group include IOT conference, SBBCCI.