IEEE COUNCIL ON ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION
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Congratulations to Dr. Aart de Geus on being chosen as the 2008 Phil Kaufman Award recipient! This annual award honors an individual who has had demonstrable impact on the field of electronic design through contributions in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). The EDA Consortium (EDAC) and the IEEE Council on EDA (CEDA) will hold the 15th annual Phil Kaufman Award ceremony and dinner on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at the Doubletree Hotel, 2050 Gateway Place, San Jose, California. The reception will begin at 6PM, followed by dinner at 7PM. Phil Kaufman Award Dinner seats are available for purchase (each seat costs $75 for EDA Consortium members and $150 for non-members). For more details, just visit the Dinner Registration website.
The call for nominations for the Technical Impact Award on Electronic Design Automation will be announced at the 2008 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design. The call for nominations for the yearly award for outstanding technical contributions to the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) honoring the late Dr. Richard Newton will be announced during the 26th International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). The "A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation" is sponsored by the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) and the ACM Special Interest Group in Design Automation (ACM SIGDA). This award will be presented to an individual or individuals for their outstanding technical contributions to EDA, recognized over a significant period of time. The qualification will based on a high-impact, seminal paper published by either ACM or IEEE nominees at least 10 years ago.
IEEE/ACM 14th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2009). ASP-DAC 2009 is the fourteenth annual international conference on VLSI design automation in Asia and South Pacific region, one of the most active regions of design and fabrication of silicon chips in the world. The conference aims at providing the Asian and South Pacific CAD/DA and Design community with opportunities of presenting recent advances and with forums for future directions in technologies related to Electronic Design Automation (EDA). The format of the meeting intends to cultivate and promote an instructive and productive interchange of ideas among EDA researchers/developers and system/circuit/device designers. All scientists, engineers, and students who are interested in theoretical and practical aspects of VLSI design and design automation are welcome to ASP-DAC. For more details, just visit the conference website.
IEEE Council of EDA Sponsored Panel on Ethics During Transitions at ICCAD 2007. IEEE CEDA sponsored a lunch panel titled, "Ethics During Transitions", during the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) Tuesday, November 6, from noon-1:30 p.m. in the Donner Ballroom at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, Calif. The members of the panel, chosen for their wealth of experience and insight, included: Jo Dale Carothers, an attorney specializing in IP Litigation and Information Technology at Heller Ehrman LLP; Penny Herscher, president and CEO of FirstRain; Mona Sabet, vice president and associate general counsel at Cadence Design Systems; Keith Miller, an expert in Computer ethics, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Click here for more information.
CEDA Launches IEEE D&T Electronic Edition. Working in cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Press, the Council is pleased to announce the availability of IEEE Design & Test - Electronic Edition. The electronic edition is specially designed by QMAGS Publishers to be delivered to CEDA affiliates via the internet. The Electronic Edition is exact cover-to-cover copy of the printed magazine, in a QuVu format that fits the computer screen perfectly and does not require page manipulations. This compact and highly navigable form is delivered to you every two months for a subscription price of $19.95. This is half the price of the best member rate for subscription to regular D&T print issue. Click here for more information.
CEDA Hosts Dinner Reception, Distinguished Speaker Lecture at DAC. CEDA will host a reception and Distinguished Speaker Lecture during the 44th DAC on Monday, June 4, starting at 6 p.m. in the Sails Pavilion at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA. This networking event will include a presentation from C.-J. Richard Shi of the University of Washington and co-author of the IEEE Transactions on CAD Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award, titled "On symbolic model order reduction . It addresses the problem of reducing a large circuit that contains symbolic circuit parameters to smaller low order models at its ports. Click here to read the Business Wire article.
IC routing contest boosts CAD research. CEDA sponsored the International Symposium on Physical Design which was organized by IBM on March, 20. Many participants from academia and research institutions made the event succeful, showcasing new directions for research in IC routing algorithms. Click here to read the EE Times article.