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2010 International Symposium on Physical Design
Marriott Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California, USA
March 14 - 17, 2010
www.ispd.cc

Sponsored by ACM/SIGDA with Technical Co-Sponsorship from IEEE CAS
Additional support from Cadence, IBM Research, Intel Corporation, Mentor Graphics, SpringSoft, Sun, and Synopsys


PROGRAM
The International Symposium on Physical Design provides a high-quality forum for the exchange of ideas on the physical layout design of VLSI systems. The scope of this symposium includes all aspects of physical design, from high-level interactions with logic synthesis, down to back-end performance analysis and verification.

Each regular paper presentation runs 25 minutes. Each invited talk is 30 minutes.

SUNDAY, March 14

5:30 - 7:00 pm Evening Reception

MONDAY, March 15

8:30 - 9:40 am Welcome and Keynote Address
Host: Prashant Saxena / Synopsys

(Keynote Talk) Physical Design of Biological Systems
Louis K. Scheffer from Howard Hughes Medical Institute

9:40 - 10:10 am Morning Break

10:10 am - 12:10 pm Session 1: Modern Physical Design Challenges
Chair: Lars Hagen / Cadence

(Invited Talk) Going with the Flow: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in Physical Design
Patrick Groeneveld from Magma

(Invited talk) Design Planning Trends and Challenges
Neeraj Kaul from Synopsys

(Invited talk) Physical Design Challenges beyond the 22nm Node
Sani Nassif and Kevin Nowka from IBM

(Invited talk) Challenges and Opportunities in Optimization of Automotive Electronics
Serge Leef from Mentor Graphics

12:10 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 4:15 pm Session 2: Advances in Routing
Chair: Mustafa Ozdal / Intel

(Invited talk) What Makes a Design Difficult to Route
Charles Alpert, Zhuo Li, Michael Moffitt, Gi-Joon Nam, Jarrod Roy, and Gustavo Tellez from IBM

FOARS: FLUTE Based Obstacle-Avoiding Rectilinear Steiner Tree Construction
Gaurav Ajwani, Chris Chu and Wai-Kei Mak

Completing High-Quality Global Routes
Jin Hu, Jarrod Roy and Igor Markov

(Invited talk) Thinking Outside of the Chip
John Park from Mentor Graphics

B-Escape: A Simultaneous Escape Routing Algorithm Based on Boundary Routing
Lijuan Luo, Tan Yan, Qiang Ma, Martin Wong and Toshiyuki Shibuya

4:15 - 4:45 pm Afternoon Break

4:45 - 6:10 pm Session 3: Analog Design Automation
Chair: Lei He / UCLA

(Invited talk) Analog Layout Synthesis: What's Missing?
Rob Rutenbar from University of Illinois

(Invited talk) Design Platform for Electrical and Physical Co-Design of Analog Circuits
Mar Hershenson from Magma

Automatic Generation of Hierarchical Placement Rules for Analog Integrated Circuits
Michael Eick, Martin Strasser, Helmut Graeb and Ulf Schlichtmann

6:10 - 9:00 pm: Dinner Banquet

TUESDAY, March 16

8:30 - 10:25 am Session 4: Physical Design for 3D ICs
Chair: Sung Kyu Lim / Georgia Institute of Technology

(Invited talk) Adding a New Dimension to Physical Design
Sachin Sapatnekar from University of Minnesota

(Invited talk) Physical Design Implementation for 3D IC: Methodology and Tools
Vassilios Gerousis from Cadence

(Invited talk) Efficient Design Practices for Thermal Management of a TSV Based 3D IC System
Zongwu Tang from Synopsys

An Analytical Placer for Mixed-Size 3D Placement
Jason Cong and Guojie Luo

10:25 - 10:55 am Morning Break

10:55 am - 12:35 pm: Session 5: Physical Synthesis
Chair: Igor Markov / University of Michigan

Logical and Physical Restructuring of Fan-In Trees
Hua Xiang, Haoxing Ren, Louise Trevillyan, Lakshmi Reddy, Ruchir Puri and Minsik Cho

Ultra-Fast Interconnect Driven Cell Cloning for Minimizing Critical Path Delay
Zhuo Li, David Papa, Charles Alpert, Shiyan Hu, Weiping Shi, Cliff Sze and Ying Zhou

ITOP: Integrating Timing Optimization within Placement
Natarajan Viswanathan, Gi-Joon Nam, Jarrod Roy, Zhuo Li, Charles Alpert, Shyam Ramji and Chris Chu

Physical Synthesis of Bus Matrix for High Bandwidth Low Power On-Chip Communications
Renshen Wang, Evangeline Young, Ronald Graham and Chung-Kuan Cheng

12:35 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 3:40 pm Session 6: Design for Manufacturing
Chair: Ting-Chi Wang / National Tsing-Hua University

Dummy Fill Optimization for Enhanced Manufacturability
Yaoguang Wei and Sachin Sapatnekar

Density Gradient Minimization with Coupling-Constrained Dummy Fill for CMP Control
Huang-Yu Chen, Szu-Jui Chou and Yao-Wen Chang

Total Sensitivity Based DFM Optimization of Standard Library Cells
Yongchan Ban, Savithri Sundareswaran and David Z. Pan

A Matching Based Decomposer for Double Patterning Lithography
Yue Xu and Chris Chu

3:40 - 4:10 pm Afternoon Break

4:10 - 5:40 pm Session 7: Advances in Clock Tree Designs and ISPD'10 Clock Tree Synthesis Contest
Chair: Cliff Sze / IBM Research

Skew Management of NBTI Impacted Gated Clock Trees
Ashutosh Chakraborty and David Z. Pan

Accurate Clock Mesh Sizing via Sequential Quadratic Programming
Venkata Rajesh Mekala, Yifang Liu, Xiaoji Ye, Jiang Hu and Peng Li

(Invited talk) ISPD 2010 High Performance Clock Network Synthesis Contest: Benchmark Suite and Results
Cliff Sze from IBM

6:00 - 9:00 pm: Dinner Banquet

WEDNESDAY, March 17

8:30 - 10:40 am Session 8: Performance and Reliability Optimization
Chair: Linda Huaizhi Wu / Synopsys

(Invited talk) Impact of Local Interconnects on Timing and Power in a High Performance Microprocessor
Rupesh Shelar and Marek Patyra from Intel

Interconnect Power and Delay Optimization by Dynamic Programming in Gridded Design Rules
Konstantin Moiseev, Avinoam Kolodny and Shmuel Wimer

Performance Study of VeSFET-Based, High-Density Regular Circuits
Yi-Wei Lin, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska and Wojciech Maly

A Statistical Framework for Designing On-Chip Thermal Sensing Infrastructure in Nano-Scale Systems
Yufu Zhang, Bing Shi and Ankur Srivastava

Optimal Wiring Topology for Electromigration Avoidance Considering Multiple Layers and Obstacles
Iris Hui-Ru Jiang, Hua-Yu Chang and Chih-Long Chang

10:40 - 11:10 am Morning Break

11:10 am - 12:25 pm Session 9: Clustering and Biochip Placement & Routing
Chair: Jens Lienig / Dresden University of Technology

SafeChoice: A Novel Clustering Algorithm for Wirelength-Driven Placement
Jackey Z. Yan, Chris Chu and Wai-Kei Mak

Droplet-Routing-Aware Module Placement for Cross-Referencing Biochips
Zigang Xiao and Evangeline F. Y. Young

A Two-Stage ILP-Based Droplet Routing Algorithm for Pin-Constrained Digital Microfluidic Biochips
Tsung-Wei Huang and Tsung-Yi Ho

12:25 - 12:40 pm Closing Remarks

12:40 - 2:00 pm Lunch