12th International Symposium & Exhibits on QUALITY ELECTRONIC DESIGN — ISQED 2011
March 14-16, 2011
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara, CA USA
http://www.isqed.org
Conference Highlights:
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Keynote Speeches
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“Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Innovations and advances for IC Design”
Vinod Kariat – Fellow, Cadence Design Systems
“Multitechnology Hyperintegration Platform: The Technology Crystal Ball”
Kamran Eshraghian – President, Innovation Labs, Perth, Australia & Distinguished Professor,
World Class University (WCU), Korea
“For how much longer can Moore’s Law hold?”
R. Fabian W.Pease – William Ayer Professor (Emeritus) of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
“Virtual Prototyping for HW-SW Co-verification and Co-debugging in a Multi processor, Complex Chip Designs”
Eshel Haritan – Vice President, Engineering, System Level Solutions, Synopsys
“Ensuring Known Good IP for Successful IC Development”
Juan C. Rey – Senior Engineering Director, Mentor Graphics
“The State of 3D Circuit Integration and Its Effect on Design”
Robert Patti – Chief Technology Officer, Tezzaron Semiconductor
Tutorials/Workshops
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ISQED2011 includes a full day tutorial consisting of 6 topics on Monday 3/14, plus 3 embedded tutorials
on Tuesday 3/15 and Lunch tutorial on Wednesday 3/16. List of tutorials is as follows:
“SRAM and Logic Circuit Techniques for Low Power Design in 32nm and Below”
Muhammad M. Khellah – Intel
“Automated Design and Porting of Analog/Mixed-signal Circuits”
David Colleran – Magma Design Automation
“Current and Electric Field Induced Switching of Ferromagnets for Low-power Memory Applications”
Sayeef Salahuddin – University of California, Berkeley
“Application of Spintronics for MRAM and Memristor-based Computing”
Hai (Helen) Li- Polytechnic Institute of New York University
“Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage Systems”
Naehyuck Chang – Seoul National University, Massoud Pedram – University of Southern California
“System Level Power Management for Cellular Chipsets”
Christopher Chun – Qualcomm
“Modeling, Abstraction, and Verification of Industrial Flash Memories”
Sandip Ray – University of Texas at Austin
“Stress Management for 3D ICs using TSV (Through Silicon Vias)”
“TechTuning : DFM Methodology for Stress Management for 3D TSV Products”
Riko Radojcic – Qualcomm
“Stress Assessment for 3D IC performance: Full chip analysis”
“TCAD Simulation for Stress Management in 3D IC”
Xiaopeng Xu – Synopsys
“Multi-scale materials characterization – Input for stress simulation and model validation”
Ehrenfried Zschech – Fraunhofer Institute for Non-Destructive Testing IZFP
“Verification of Power Managed Wireless SoCs”
Bhanu Kapoor – Mimasic, Amit Kumar – CSR plc, Prapanna Tiwari – Synopsys
Lunch Tutorial (Wednesday 3/16)
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“Signoff-driven Custom Physical Design”
Rich Morse – SpringSoft, Joseph C. Davis – Mentor Graphics
ISQED Award
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Award winners for the following 3 category of awards will be announced during luncheon on Tuesday 3/15:
ISQED Quality Award (IQ-Award)
ISQED Education Leadership Award
ISQED best paper
Technical Sessions
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ISQED Technical sessions start on Tuesday 3/15 and continue until the afternoon of Wednesday 3/16. Beside plenary sessions, and workshops, the program consists of 22 technical sessions featuring well over 100 papers on various challenging topics related to system and IC design, IP qualification, design flows, and design for manufacturability and quality. Detail program is available on the web at www.isqed.org.
Registration
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Please refer to ISQED web site at www.isqed.org for information regarding the tutorials, conference, tutorials, and hotel registration. Direct all conference inquiries to isqed2011@isqed.org. Early registration is recommended to take advantage of the discounted registration fee. Link to registration: http://tinyurl.com/4r99qqv
Free Exhibitions
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ISQED Exhibition floor will be open on Tuesday March 15 at 10AM and features vendors offering design tools, methodologies, and services in the areas of design for manufacturing, yield, reliability, and quality. Exhibition includes keynotes and embedded tutorials. Exhibition floor attendance is free but needs
advance on-line registration: http://tinyurl.com/4r99qqv
Free Education Conference and Chance to Win an iPad
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ISQED is pleased to sponsor the first “International Electronic Design Education Conference (IEDEC)”. This event will take place on March 16th in conjunction with ISQED event at Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara, CA. The conference is held with technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Education Society, SCV Chapter. Registration is FREE and you get a chance to participate in FREE iPad drwaing. To find out more and register please visit: http://www.iedec.org
