Minutes of the IFIP Working Group 10.5 Meeting

Munich, Technical University of Munich, March 7^th, 2003

Present : E.Aas, D.Borrione, L.Claesen, C.Delgado Kloos, K.-H.Diener, N.Dutt, J.Jing-Yang, T.Margaria, W.Nebel, F.Rammig, P.Schwarz, F.Wagner

Apologies : F.Anceau, K.Antreich, F.Brglez, J.Darringer, H.Eveking, N.Fristacky, R.Hartenstein, G.Hellestrand, A.Jerraya, S.Johnson, P.Paulin, R.Reis, M.Robert, L.M.Silveira, A.Stempkovski, W.Wolf, A.Yamada

Invited : L.Indrusiak, A.Osseiran

1. New member

Tiziana Margaria, who had been invited to become a member of the WG, presented herself, giving an overview of his past and current activities and research interests. Her admission as new member has been approved unanimously.

2. CODES-ISSS

The co-sponsorship of CODES-ISSS, the new conference formed after the merge of CODES and ISSS, has been approved. The IFIP financial involvment will amount to 16% (50% of the value of the IFIP involvment with the previous CODES conference).

3. Report on the IFIP Council meeting

F.Rammig, the TC 10 chair, reported on the past IFIP Council meeting, held on March 4^th — 5^th in Bilbao, Spain. He reported that Kluwer, the official publisher of IFIP, has a new owner, and the contract between Kluwer and IFIP ends in 2005. TC 10 contributes with a small part of the IFIP publication revenues. TC 10 has an annual budget of 80 thousand Euros by now, whereby 75% of this value comes from conference earnings and 25% from royalties of publications.

4. CHARME copyright

F.Rammig will help settling things with regard to the royalties IFIP is asking from the CHARME conference, which is considered to be too high by the CHARME organizers.

5. Workshop on Education

The WG approved the organization of a workshop on Education and E-learning in the field of Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems. This workshop shall be held together with the next IFIP World Computer Congress (Toulouse, France, August 2004), and C.Delgado-Kloos kindly accepted to be general chair of this new WG event. Cooperation with IFIP TC 3 (on Education) will be sought.

6. Report on the VLSI-SoC’2003 conference

On behalf of M.Glesner, the general chair of the VLSI-SoC’2003 conference, L.Indrusiak (TU Darmstadt) gave a report on the organization of the upcoming conference, which will be held in Darmstadt, from December 1^st to 3^rd. Submission deadline is in May. A PhD forum will be held in parallel to the conference, as previously approved by the WG. Funds are being asked to TC 10 to support students from developing countries.

7. Proposal of a VLSI-SoC’2004 conference

R.Reis proposed the organization of a 2004 edition of the VLSI—SoC conference. The WG did not approve this proposal, since it considers too risky to held a new edition of the event only few months after the 2003 edition, to be held in Darmstadt in December 2003.

8. VLSI-SoC’2005

The WG approved the proposal from the Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth, Australia, to host the 2005 edition of the VLSI-SoC conference. General chair will be Prof. K.Eshraghian (ECU). The proposal has been presented by Adam Osseiran (ECU), who has been invited to attend the meeting.

9. Aims and Scope

The WG approved the new text for its Aims and Scope. It is included as an Appendix of these minutes.

10. Next meetings

Next meetings will be held in Irvine, USA, on June 6^th 2003 (the day after the Design Automation Conference), and in Darmstadt, Germany, on November 30^th 2003 (the day before the VLSI-SoC conference).

11. Invited talks on E-Learning

The administrative meeting was followed by two invited technical presentations on the field of E-Learning, given by WG members:

1. "The Fraunhofer Knowledge Network - an Approach to Support life-long learning", by Peter Schwarz and Karl-Heinz Diener
2. "E-learning experiences at UC3M", by Carlos Delgado-Kloos.

After these presentations, D.Borrione gave a brief report on the educational aspects of the "European Network of Excellence on Systems-on-Chip ".

APPENDIX — New Aims and Scope

AIMS

Electronic system design demands a tight integration on a very large profile of knowledge and skills ranging from hardware and software system architecture to semiconductor physics.

Functionality of complex embedded or stand-alone systems, to be applied in areas such as general-purpose computing, telecommunications, automotive, entertainement, and multimedia, may be realized by various combinations of analog and digital hardware and software parts.

Systems can be implemented by single or multiple integrated circuits and software modules that can be either of special purpose, programmable, or reconfigurable.

The working group aims at providing a forum amongst creative experts to explore problem areas and solutions for the design of such complex electronic systems and also disseminating the solutions to a broader industrial and educational sphere.

SCOPE

The Working Group is interested in a broad range of topics related to the design and engineering of heterogeneous systems, containing hardware, software, and even mechanical parts.