TAU 2011 - 2011 International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems (TAU 2011)

ACM International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems (TAU Workshop) will be held in Santa Barbara, California on March 31-April 1, 2011. The workshop is sponsored by ACM/SIGDA and in-cooperation with IEEE/CAS.

The 2011 TAU Workshop will be co-located with the ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD). The symposium will be held on March 27 - March 30, 2011.

The TAU series of workshops provide an informal forum for practitioners and researchers working on temporal aspects of digital systems to disseminate early work and engage in a free discussion of ideas. The eighteen in the TAU series, the TAU 2011 workshop invites submissions from all areas related to the timing properties of digital electronic systems, including but not limited to

All levels (transistor, system, etc.) of timing analysis
Timing-driven system design, synthesis and physical design
Sensitivity analysis
Full custom design analysis
Integrated functional-temporal analysis
Timing issues in low power design and testing
Power-delay trade-offs
Delay models and metrics
Layout impact on timing
Timing-driven layout optimization

Timing-driven synthesis and re-synthesis
Circuit optimization
Uncertainty-based analysis
Incorporation of manufacture impacts to timing
Reliability impact on performance
Process & environmental variation models
Statistical analysis technique
Clocking, synchronization, and skew
Clock domains, static/dynamic logic
Novel clocking and no-clock (Asynchronous) schemes
Timing implications of emerging technologies

All papers must be submitted electronically. Submissions are limited to 6 pages in the double column proceedings format. TAU is a workshop aimed at fostering a high level of professional interaction, not a conference. Copies of papers will be provided to the attendees, but the proceedings will not be published by the ACM or the IEEE. Therefore, accepted papers can still be submitted to other conferences and journals. The intent of the workshop is to encourage the vigorous and unfettered discussion of the latest ideas in the field.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: December 25, 2010
Acceptance notification: February 10, 2011
Camera-ready paper due: February 24, 2011

Conference Organizers:

General Chair: Florentin Dartu, Synopsys, Inc., fdartu-AT-synopsys.com

TPC Chair: Charlie Chen, National Taiwan University., cchen-AT-cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw