ISPD 2011 - The International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD)

The International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) provides a premier forum to exchange ideas and promote research on critical areas related to the physical design of VLSI systems. ISPD-2011 will be held March 27-30, 2011 in Santa Barbara, California and will honor Professor Ernest Kuh for his contributions to the physical design community.

http://www.sigda.org/ispd
All aspects of physical design, including its interactions with architecture, behavioral- and logic-level synthesis, and back-end performance analysis and verification are within the scope of the symposium. Target domains include semi-custom and full-custom IC, regular fabrics, FPGA, and systems-on-chip/systems-in-package. Following its nineteen predecessors, the 2011 symposium will highlight new directions and leading-edge theoretical and experimental contributions to the field.

IMPORTANT DATES
Full manuscript submission deadline
Midnight, October 11, 2010 (PST)
Acceptance notification
November 17, 2010
Camera-ready paper due
January 18, 2011
Symposium dates

March 27-30, 2011

Press Coverage of 2010 ISPD

IBM benchmarks prod microprocessor designers, ISPD design contest expected to spur new clock distribution schemes, EE Times, 4/2/10.
IBM warns of 'design rule explosion' beyond 22-nm, EE Times, 3/31/10.
Contest

Over the past five years, ISPD has organized contests in placement, global routing, and clock network synthesis, that have not only attracted enthusiastic participation from all around the globe, but have also led to significant seminal research advances in these fields. These contests have also resulted in the release of new state-of-the-art benchmark suites that have already found widespread acceptance and usage in the physical design research community. ISPD 2011 will continue this proud tradition of organizing a contest open to research groups from universities around the world.