Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE international symposium on Low power electronics and design

Abstract

Welcome to the 16th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low-power Electronics and Design! The ISLPED'10 technical program features four exciting keynote talks (two back-to-back talks on the first two days), three Special Sessions spread over the second and third day, an Embedded Tutorial, and a Design Contest. ISLPED'10 opens with a keynote talk by Professor Jan Rabaey (University of California at Berkeley) on Wednesday, August 18th, describing the challenges in designing energy-efficient systems in the post-Moore era. Dr. Raj Jammy, VP Materials and Emerging Technologies, SEMATECH, will follow-up with a keynote speech on innovations in functional materials and nanostructures needed to overcome the power-performance-cost barriers in realizing next generation systems. The keynote talk by Dr. Ajith Amerasekera, Director, Kilby Research Labs, Texas Instruments, Inc., on Thursday, August 19th, will describe key challenges in the design of ultra-low power ICs for personal and health technology to solutions for energy generation and delivery for autonomous systems. Dr. Kevin Nowka, Senior Manager, VLSI Systems Research, IBM, Austin, TX, will give the final keynote talk describing the key technology variability and modeling challenges for current and future technologies, and describe new device and circuit technologies available to system designers. Thursday afternoon will feature three special sessions and an embedded tutorial. The first special session presents Dr. Benjamin Vigoda from Lyric Semiconductor Inc, Dr. Keith Bowman from Intel Corporation, Professor Rakesh Kumarfrom the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Dr. Ravi Nair from IBM, who will discuss the emerging topic of employing error-resiliency to achieve energy-efficiency. The second special session will focus on energy storage systems for emerging applications and will feature Dr. Jeffrey Lee from LG, Professor Massoud Pedram from the University of Southern California, Dr. Kathryn Miles from EETrex, and Professor Li Shang from the Univ. of Colorado at Boulder. The third special session will highlight talks by Professor Mani Srivastava from UCLA and Professor Rajesh Gupta from University of California at San Diego describing energy-efficiency issues in smart buildings. The embedded tutorial by Dr. Mondira Pant from Intel Corporation will focus on power delivery challenges for next generation microprocessors. We have prepared an exciting technical program for ISLPED 2010. Out of 203 paper submissions, 69 were accepted for presentation in paper or poster sessions, yielding an acceptance rate of 23.6% for regular and short papers (48 papers), or 34% including the 21 posters. Topics range from low-power technology, circuits, and memory; low voltage analog and RF design; power aware design and tools; power efficient architecture techniques; and system and application level power optimization. The program is organized into eleven technical sessions featuring long (30 min) and short (20 min) paper presentations, as well as an interactive poster session that will provide an additional venue for authors and symposium attendees to interact in an informal setting. Winning entries to the annual Student Low Power Design Contest will also be featured in a separate technical session on Friday.