Proceedings of the 2014 on International symposium on physical design

Abstract

On behalf of the organizing committee, we are delighted to welcome you to the 2014 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), held at the Sheraton Sonoma County Petaluma, California. Continuing the great tradition established by its twenty-two predecessors, which includes a series of five ACM/SIGDA Physical Design Workshops held intermittently in 1987-1996 and seventeen editions of ISPD in the current form since 1997, the 2014 ISPD provides a premier forum to present leading-edge research results, exchange ideas, and promote research on critical areas related to the physical design of VLSI and other related systems. We received 40 submissions from all around the world. After a rigorous, month-long, doubleblind review process, the Technical Program Committee (TPC) met face-to-face to select papers to be included in the technical program based on about 200 reviews provided by 20 TPC members and 10 external reviewers. Finally, the committee accepted 14 papers to be presented in the symposium. These papers exhibit latest advancements in a variety of topics in placement, routing, 3D integration, clocking and power-grid planning, and design for manufacturability, and applications of physical design in cyber-physical systems. The ISPD 2014 program is complemented by two keynote addresses as well as nine invited talks, all of which are delivered by distinguished researchers in both industry and academia. Serge Leef, Vice President, New Ventures and General Manager of System-Level Engineering Division at Mentor Graphics will present in the Monday keynote speech challenges and opportunities in hardware cyber security from a physical design perspective. Rob Aitken, R & D Fellow at ARM will present in the Tuesday keynote speech impacts of FinFET technology on physical design. A commemorative session on Tuesday afternoon pays a tribute to Dr. Bryan Preas. His collaborators will share with us Dr. Preas's exceptional contributions, both to EDA research as well as community, including his contributions to the first Physical Design Workshops and first EDA contest/benchmarks, and his services to Design Automation Conference and ACM SIGDA, and for his pioneering effort in electronic publication of proceedings of EDA conferences. Dr. Preas will conclude the commemoration session with a talk entitled "Smart Matter Systems: An Introduction Through Examples." Other invited talks will be interspersed with the presentations of accepted papers. The topics of invited papers range from emerging technologies such as 3D ICs and carbon nanotube computers, to modern challenges of place & route for FPGAs and structured ASICs, and applications of EDA algorithms in cyber-physical systems. Since 2005, ISPD has organized highly competitive contests to promote and advance research in placement, global routing, clock network synthesis, and discrete gate sizing. This year's contest is on detailed routing-driven placement and is organized by Mentor Graphics. Specifically, the contest evaluates the quality of placement using a commercial detailed router in order to motivate research to address significant complexity of routing-design rules in advanced technology nodes. The contest results will be announced by the ISPD Contest Chair, Ismail Bustany, on Wednesday morning. Continuing the tradition of all the past contests, a new large-scale real-world benchmark suite will be released in industry-standard formats including LEF, DEF, and Verilog description in ISPD website: http://www.ispd.cc