DATE 2009 Friday Workshop - Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

Scope -- Workshop Description -- Topic Areas -- Submissions -- Key Dates -- Additional Information

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The Design, Automation, and Test in Europe conference and exhibition is the main European event bringing together designers and design automation users, researchers and vendors, as well as specialists in hardware and software design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. The conference includes plenary invited papers, regular papers, panels, hot-topic sessions, tutorials and workshops, two special focus days, and a track for executives. Friday Workshops are focusing on emerging research and application topics. At DATE 2009, one of the Friday Workshops is devoted to 3D Integration. This one-day event consists of a plenary keynote, regular and poster presentations, and a panel session.

Workshop Description

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The Design, Automation, and Test in Europe conference and exhibition is the main European event bringing together designers and design automation users, researchers and vendors, as well as specialists in hardware and software design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. The conference includes plenary invited papers, regular papers, panels, hot-topic sessions, tutorials and workshops, two special focus days, and a track for executives. Friday Workshops are focusing on emerging research and application topics. At DATE 2009, one of the Friday Workshops is devoted to 3D Integration. This one-day event consists of a plenary keynote, regular and poster presentations, and a panel session.

Topic Areas

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You are invited to participate and submit your contributions to the DATE 2009 Friday Workshop on 3D Integration. The area of interest includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:

3D technologies: wire-bonding, micro-bumping, contactless, and through-silicon-vias interconnect
3D design space exploration
Architectures for 3D integration
3D combinations of logic, memory, analog, RF
3D design methods and EDA tools
Signal integrity and noise coupling in 3D
Thermal analysis and thermal-aware design
Test, design-for-test, and debug techniques
Product or test chip case studies
Economic benefit/cost trade-off studies
Standardization initiatives

Submissions

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Submissions are invited in the form of (extended) abstracts not exceeding two pages and must be sent in as PDF file to yann.guillou@stnwireless.com and geert.vanderplas@imec.be with “DATE09-3D-WS” as subject.

All submissions will be evaluated for selection with respect to their suitability for the workshop, originality, and technical soundness. Selected submissions can be accepted for regular or poster presentation. At the workshop, an Electronic Workshop Digest will be made available to all workshop participants, which will include all material that authors are willing to provide: abstract, paper, slides, poster, etc.

Key Dates

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Paper Submission deadline: November 8, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: November 17, 2008
Camera-Ready Material due: April 10, 2009

Additional Information

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Erik Jan Marinissen – General Chair
IMEC
Nomadic Embedded Systems
Kapeldreef 75
3001 Leuven, Belgium
E-mail: erik.jan.marinissen@imec.be

Yann Guillou – Program Co-Chair
ST-NXP Wireless
Wireless Multimedia Division
12, rue Jules Horowitz – BP 217
38019 Grenoble cedex, France
E-mail: yann.guillou@stnwireless.com

Geert Van der Plas – Program Co-Chair
IMEC
Nomadic Embedded Systems
Kapeldreef 75
3001 Leuven, Belgium
E-mail: geert.vanderplas@imec.be

For more information, visit us on the web at: http://www.date-conference.com/

The Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE 2009) is sponsored by the European Design and Automation Association, the EDA Consortium, the IEEE Computer Society (TTTC), (CEDA), ECSI, RAS and ACM SIGDA.