IFIP Working Group 10.5 Minutes Meeting

Dresden, 9/3/2010 (6 PM-8 PM), DATE conference
 

 

Attendees : Ricardo Reis, David Atienza, Michel Robert, Dominique Borrione, Salvador Mir, Juergen Becker, Ian O'Connor, Eugenio Villar, Donatella Sciuto, Franz Rammig, Luis Miguel Silveira, Nick Dutt, Matthew Guthaus (Skype)

Apologies : Flavio Rech Wagner, Dimitrios Soudris, Kiyoung Choi, Osamu Karatsu, Luc Classen, Franc Brglez

 

 

-Updated information on IFIP TC 10 (see attached file)

- Slides from IFIP presented and discussed (Bernhard Eschermann) concerning IFIP with 56 IT Societies from different countries contributing, 14 technical committees. A new area of green computing should be investigated in TC10.5. 50 years of IFIP will be celebrated during the World Congress

- Nominations of TC10 people to IFIP awards are required (proposal : Robert Piloti TU Darmstadt, founder of TC10 and WG10.2). Dominique Borrione will communicate data to Michel Robert). Ricardo Reis proposed that the WG should nominate other names also.

- Suggestions for new WG 10.5 chair will be considered in the Madrid meeting

 

- Status of VLSI-SoC book

- 2008 Book from Rhodes: Springer is now producing the book, that should be available soon. Draft of the book available, including cover page. Book price around 40 Euro (for the bulk selling to the conference organizers).

 

- 2009 Book from Brazil: still missing the final version of two chapters

 

- VLSI-SoC 2009

- Very good organization.

- 81 submitted, 44 accepted, 37 rejected

- Full registration: 40, students 44, non paying (students that helped during the event)17 ==> total 101 (including two invited speakers)

- Edutech with about 30 participants

 

- Status of VLSI-SoC 2010 (Madrid) (see attached file)

- VLSI-SoC 2010, Madrid. September 27-29 (Monday - Wednesday)

- Keynotes are fixed. Subhasish Mitra (Stanford), Giovanni de Micheli (EPFL), Sani Nassif (IBM), Nik Dutt (UC Irvine)

- Already 10 papers submitted. Submission deadline March 28th

- Conference special theme: Green computing

- Two special sessions: 1- Green computing and datacenters, 2- Bioengineering VLSI

-Sponsoring: IFIP 50%, CEDA 25%, CASS 25%

- Break even with 80 people, target attendance 100

- U. Madrid - provides auditorium + 3 meeting rooms

- EasyChair system to be used for reviews (and reviewer evaluation). DUDE replication of papers.

- Invited members of IFIP WG10.5 to organization committee - still open! David will send a mail to all members.

 

- Status of VLSI-SoC 2011 Chi-Ying Tsui

- Proposal 17-19 October (Chi-Ying Tsui)

- Could be in conflict with ESWeek - ideally some coordination is necessary (David / Donatella but Donatella is not in the decision process for ESWeek 2011). Back to back events ? Joint event ? Note that ESWeek has a rotation schedule.

Avoid first week of October (costs)

Donatella will (a) communicate possible dates to Salvador and (b) communicate tentative VLSI-SoC dates to ESWeek steering committee.

- Theme suggestion for conference "SOC design for ubiquitous sensing and computing". To be discussed taking into account TC10 priorities (green electronics).

- Proposal to keep topic chairs from 2010. There is an increase in TPC members from Asia in 2010. Participation list from previous years of VLSI-SoC

- Preparation for call for papers is under way. Adobe Design format.

CFP VLSI-Soc'11 should be available end of March.
For CASS sponsoring, paperwork has to be started at least one year before the conference. CEDA will do it very quickly.

 

- View of VLSI-SoC 2012 (Santa Cruz)

- No response yet for possible locations (cost to be optimised)

- Target 7th or 14th October (avoid last week in September (classes start and hotels expensive)

- Sunday reception + 3 days of sessions

- Two rooms for parallel sessions

- 120-150 on-site + 50 off-site from Silicon Valley

 

- Proposals for other future VLSI-SoC editions

Proposal for 2013 in Istanbul brought up by A. Orailoglu (decision : Madrid meeting)

 

- New members proposal

- New areas to be explored : 10.5 "Green Computing"

In relation to this, two new proposals from David Atienza may be submitted to the WG approval: A. Acquaviva (simulation of large scale systems), A. Coskun (thermal modelling and thermal management)

 

- Next meeting:

- DAC meeting to be organized by Michel Robert or Ricardo Reis

- Madrid during VLSI SOC 2010