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IEEE 7th International Workshop on
Microprocessor Test & Verification
(MTV 2006)

December 4 - 5, 2006
Hyatt Town Lake Hotel
Austin, Texas, USA

http://mtv.ece.ucsb.edu/MTV/

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Early Registration Ends November 24, 2006!

Overview -- Advance Program -- Contacts

Overview

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The purpose of MTV'06 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from all areas of work related to verification and test in order to exchange innovative ideas and present new methodologies for solving challenges facing us today in various processor and SoC design environments.

Important dates:
Hotel Registration Deadline: November 13 , 2006
Advanced Registration Deadline: November 24, 2006

Location:
Hyatt Town Lake Hotel,
208 Barton Springs Road, Austin, Texas 78704
Reservation Number: 1 (800) 233-1234 or (512) 477-1234
(Mention "IEEE MTV" for conf. rate)

The advance program, hotel information, and registration links are available on the MTV'06 web pages at: http://mtv.ece.ucsb.edu/MTV/.

Advance Program

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Sunday -- Monday -- Tuesday

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Reception and Registration
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4
7:30 am - 8:30 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:15 am Keynote Speech
Dr. Chekib Akrout
Vice President, Design Technology
Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
9:15 am - 10:30 am Session A: Processor Architecture Compliance
Session Chair: Allon Adir (IBM)

A.1 A Novel Compliance Testing Technology based on Automatic Detection of Misinterpretations
Allon Adir, Sigal Asaf, Itai Jaeger, Laurent Fournier (IBM)

A.2 Verification of the AMBA Protocol
Samin Ishtiaq (ARM)

A.3 IEEE-754/2007: So Many Choices
Dan Zuras (Group70)

10:30 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Session B: Equivalence Checking

B.1 An Automated Compositional Approach on Sequential Equivalence Checking
In-Ho Moon, Per Bjesse, and Carl Pixley (Synopsys)

B.2 Fast Verification of Complex, but Reasonable, Datapaths
Ted Stanion (Synopsys)

B.3 Transaction Level to RTL Formal Compliance Checking
Carl Pixley (Synopsys)

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 am - 2:15 pm

Session C: High Level Test
Session Chair: TBD

C.1 Directed Micro-architectural Test Generation for an Industrial Processor: A Case Study
H.-M. Koo, Prabhat Mishra, Jayanta Bhadra*, Magdy S. Abadir* (University of Florida and *Freescale)

C.2 Software-based on-line test of communication peripherals in processor-based systems for automotive applications
A. Manzone, M. Osella, P. Bernardi, L. Bolzani, M. Violante, M. Sonza Reorda (Centro Ricerche Fiat and Politecnico di Torino)

C.3 Circuit Profiling Mechanisms for High-level ATPG
Jorge Campos and Hussain Al-Asaad (University of California at Davis)

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Coffee Break
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm Session D: Verification, and Functional Test Generation
Session Chair: Vivekananda Vedula (Intel)

D.1 Advanced SAT-Techniques for Bounded Model Checking of Blackbox Designs
Marc Herbstritt, Bernd Becker, and Christoph Scholl (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg)

D.2 A First Look at the Detection of Design Errors Modeled as Missing Logic as a Function of Simulation Vector Quality
Elif Alpaslan and Jennifer Dworak (Brown University)

D.3 MPSoC verification using a unified random program approach Methodology, tool and case study
Jayaram Nageswaran, Ronald Bos (University California at San Diego)
3:45 pm - 5:00 Session E: Technology Challenges
Session Chair: TBD

E.1 Test Implications of in-package/on-chip VRM
T. M. Mak (Intel)

E.2 Statistical Static Timing Analysis Considering The Impact of Power Supply Noise In VLSI Circuits
Hyun Sung Kim and D. M. H. Walker (Texas A&M)

E.3 Fault-tolerant Design in the Era of Variability, Degradation, and Soft Errors
Ming Zhang, T M Mak, Kee Sup Kim (Intel)

5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Dinner & Social Event (TBD)

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5
7:45 am - 8:15 am Continental Breakfast
8:15 am - 10:05 am Session F: Debug and Diagnosis Advances
Session Chair: Al Crouch (Inovys)

Introduction Modern Debug Issues and Problems (10 mins)
Al Crouch (Inovys)

F.1 On-ATE Diagnosis
Jason Doege (DA Tech)

F.2 Embedded Compression Diagnosis
Nikhil Dakwala (Stridge)

F.3 Real Fault Insertion for Evaluating Diagnosis Tools
John Potter (Inovys)

F.4 Debug Support for Scalable System-on-Chip
Jianmin Zhang, Ming Yan, Sikun Li (National University of Defense Technology, China)

10:05 am - 10:20 am Coffee Break
10:20 am - 12:00 pm

Session G: High Level Modeling, Verification and Debug
Session Chair: Jim Holt (Freescale)

G.1 uADL: A Microarchitecture Description and Modeling Tool
Hangsheng Wang, Brian Kahne (Freescale)

G.2 RFSM: A Rendezvous of TLM and RTL
Wei Qin (Boston University)

G.3 Workload Slicing For Characterizing New Features in High Performance Microprocessors
Hassan Al-Sukhni, David Lindberg, James Holt, Michele Reese (Freescale)

G.4 Deep vs. Shallow, Kernel vs. Language - What is Better for Heterogeneous Modeling in SystemC?
Hiren D. Patel and Sandeep K. Shukla (Virginia Tech)

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Panel: Strategies for Convergence Between Design Validation, Test and Debug
Organizers: Vivekananda Vedula (Intel), Jay Bhadra (Freescale)
Moderator: Magdy Abadir (Freescale)

Participants:
Jacob A. Abraham (University of Texas at Austin)
Michael Hsiao (Virginia Tech)
Gary Miller (Freescale)
Praveen Parvathala (Intel)
Carl Pixley (Synopsys)
Others: TBD.

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Coffee Break
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm

Session H: Error Diagnosis
Session Chair: Alper Sen (Freescale)

H.1 Abstraction and Refinement Techniques in Automated Design Debugging
Sean Safarpour, Andreas Veneris (University of Toronto)

H.2 On Reducing the Global State Graph for Verification of Distributed Computations
Arindam Chakraborty and Vijay Garg (University of Texas at Austin)

H.3 Diagnosing Silicon Failures Based on Functional Test Patterns
C-C. Yen, T. Lin, H. Lin, K. Yang*, T. Liu*, Y.-C. Hsu* (Springsoft Inc. and *Novas Software Inc.)

4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Coffee Break
4:15 pm - 5:55 pm

Session I: Functional Test and validation
Session Chair: Mark Nodine (Intrinsity)

I.1 Functional Test Selection for High Volume Manufacturing
Vijay Gangaram, Deepa Bhan, James K Caldwell (Intel)

I.2 A Probabilistic Analysis For Fault Detectability of Code Coverage Metrics
Sreekumar V. Kodakara, Deepak A. Mathaikutty*, Ajit Dingankar**, Sandeep Shukla*, and David Lilja (University of Minnesota, *Virginia Tech and **Intel)

I.3 Embedded Software Validation: Applying Formal Techniques for Coverage and Test Generation
Tamarah Arons, Elad Elster, Terence Murphy, Eli Singerman (Intel)

I.4 Test Calculation for Logic and Delay Faults in Digital Circuits
József Sziray (Széchenyi University, Hungary)

5:55 pm Closing Remarks
(Committee Meeting)

Contacts

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General Chair
Magdy S. Abadir, Freescale
m.abadir@freescale.com

Program Chair
Li-C. Wang, University of California at Santa Barbara
licwang@ece.ucsb.edu

Program Co-chair
Jay Bhadra, Freescale
jayanta.bhadra@freescale.com

For more information, visit us on the web at: http://mtv.ece.ucsb.edu/MTV/

The IEEE 7th International Workshop on Microprocessor Test &Verification (MTV 2006)is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Council, and the IEEE Computer Society Design Automation Technical Committee.


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Politecnico di Torino - Italy
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LIRMM - France
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Sun Microsystems
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Virage Logic - USA
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Synopsys
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