CALL FOR PAPERS
ISQED 2006, 7th International Symposium on
QUALITY ELECTRONIC DESIGN
March 27-29, 2006. San Jose, CA, USA
ISQED is the pioneer and leading international conference dealing with the design for manufacturability and quality issues front-to-back. ISQED spans three days, Monday through Wednesday, in three parallel tracks, hosting near
100 technical presentations, six keynote speakers, two-three panel discussions, workshops /tutorials and other informal meetings. Conference proceedings are published by IEEE Computer Society and hosted in the digital library. Proceedings CD ROMs are published by ACM. In addition, continuing the tradition of reaching a wider readership in the IC design community, ISQED will continue to publish special issues in leading journals. The authors of high quality papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for the special journal issues.Papers are requested in the following areas =========================================== A pioneer and leading multidisciplinary conference, ISQED accepts and promotes papers related to the design and manufacturing of quality-based integrated circuits and systems, from design concept to production and all key steps between. Authors are invited to submit papers in the various disciplines of high level design, circuit design, test & verification, design automation tools; processes; and flows, device modeling, semiconductor technology, and advance packaging. Authors are further encouraged to highlight the link between their subject of interest to the overall design flow chain and address the design quality aspects of the subject (e.g.,. performance, power, yield, reliability, manufacturability, time to market , and environmental considerations, etc.).
Design for Manufacturability & Quality (DFMQ) ============================================= Analysis, modeling, and abstraction of manufacturing process parameters and effects for highly predictable silicon performance. Design and synthesis of high complexity ICs: signal integrity, transmission line effects, OPC, phase shifting, and sub-wavelength lithography, manufacturing yield and technology capability. Design for diagnosability, defect detection and tolerance; self-diagnosis, calibration and repair. Design and manufacturabilty issues for Digital, analog, mixed signal, RF, MEMS, opto-electronic, biochemical-electronic, and nanotechnology based ICs. Redundency and other yield improving techniques. Design quality definitions and standards; design quality metrics to track and assess the quality of electronic circuit design, as well as the quality of the design process itself; design quality assurance techniques. Global, social, and economic implications of design quality. Design metrics, methodologies and flows for custom, semi-custom, ASIC, FPGA, RF, memory, networking circuit, etc. with emphasis on quality. Design metrics and quality standards for SoC, and SiP.
Package - Design Interactions & Co-Design (PDI) ================================================ Concurrent circuit and package design and effect on quality. Packaging electrical and thermal modeling and simulation for improved quality of product. SoC versus system in a package (SiP): design and technology solutions and tradeoffs; MCM and other packaging techniques; heat sink technology.
Design Verification and Design for Testability (DVFT) ===================================================== Hardware and Software, formal and simulation based design verification techniques to ensure the functional correctness of hardware early in the design cycle. DFT and BIST for digital and SoC. DFT for analog/mixed-signal ICs and systems-on-chip, DFT/BIST for memories. Test synthesis and synthesis for testability. DFT economics, DFT case studies. DFT and ATE. Fault diagnosis, IDDQ test, novel test methods, effectiveness of test methods, fault models and ATPG, and DPPM prediction. SoC/IP testing strategies.
Robust Device, Interconnect, and Circuits (RDIC) ================================================ Device, substrate, interconnect, circuit , and IP block modeling and simulation techniques; quality metrics, model order reduction; CMOS, Bipolar, and SiGe HBTs device modeling in the context of advanced digital, RF and high-speed circuits. Modeling and simulation of novel device and interconnect concepts. Signal integrity analysis: coupling, inductive and charge sharing noise; noise avoidance techniques. Power grid design, analysis and optimization; timing analysis and optimization; thermal analysis and design techniques for thermal management. Modeling statistical process variations to improve design margin and robustness, use of statistical circuit simulators. Power-conscious design methodologies and tools; low power devices, circuits and systems; power-aware computing and communication; system-level power optimization and management. Design techniques for leakage current management.
EDA Methodologies, Tools, & IP Cores; Interoperability and Reuse(EDA) ====================================================================== EDA tools addressing design quality. Management of design process, design flows and design databases. EDA tools interoperability issues and implications. Effect of emerging technologies, processes & devices on design flows, tools, and tool interoperability. Emerging EDA standards. EDA design methodologies and tools that address issues which impact the quality of the realization of designs into physical integrated circuits. IP modeling and abstraction. Design and maintenance of technology independent hard and soft IP blocks. Methods and tools for analysis, comparison and qualification of libraries and hard IP blocks. Challenges and solutions of the integration, testing, and qualifying of IP blocks from multiple vendors. Third party testing of IP blocks. Risk management of IP reuse. IP authoring tools and methodologies.
Physical Design, Methodologies & Tools (PDM) ============================================ Physical synthesis flows for correct-by-construction quality silicon, implementation of large SoC designs. Tool frameworks and datamodels for tightly integrated incremental synthesis, placement, routing, timing analysis and verification. Placement, optimization, and routing techniques for noise sensitivity reduction and fixing. Algorithms and flows for harnessing crosstalk-delay during physical synthesis. Tool flows and techniques for antenna rule and electromigration rule avoidance and fixing. Spare-cell strategies for ECO, decoupling capacitance and antenna rule fixing. Planning tools for predictable high-current, low-voltage power distribution. Reliable clock tree generation and clock distribution methodologies for Gigahertz designs. EDA tools, design techniques, and methodologies, dealing with issues such as: timing closure, R, L, C extraction, ground/Vdd bounce, signal noise/cross-talk /substrate noise, voltage drop, power rail integrity, electromigration, hot carriers, EOS/ESD, plasma induced damage and other yield limiting effects, high frequency effects, thermal effects, power estimation, EMI/EMC, proximity correction & phase shift methods, verification (layout, circuit, function, etc.).
Effects of Technology on IC Design, Performance, Reliability, and Yield (TRD) ============================================================================== Effect of emerging processes & devices on design's time to market, yield, reliability, and quality. Emerging issues in DSM CMOS: e.g. sub-threshold leakage, gate leakage, technology road mapping and technology extrapolation techniques. New and novel technologies such as SOI, Double-Gate(DG)-MOSFET, Gate-All-Around (GAA)-MOSFET, Vertical-MOSFET, strained CMOS, high-bandwidth metallization, etc. Challenges of mixed-signal design in digital CMOS or BiCMOS technology, including issues of substrate coupling, cross-talk and power supply noise. Significance of reliability effects such as gate oxide integrity, electromigration, ESD, etc., in relation to electronic design. Impacts of process technologies on circuit design and capabilities (e.g. low-Vt transistors versus increased off-state leakages) and the accuracy, use and implementation of SPICE models that faithfully reflect process technologies. Successful applications of TCAD to circuit design.
System-level Design, Methodologies & Tools (SDM) ================================================ Global, Social, and Economical Implications of Electronic System and Design Quality. Emerging standards and regulations influencing system quality. Emerging system-level design paradigms, methods and tools aiming at quality. System-level design process and flow management. System-level design modeling, analysis and synthesis, estimation and verification for correct high-quality hardware/software systems. Responsive, secure, and defect tolerant systems. New concepts, methods and tools addressing system-level design complexity and multitude of aspects. Methods and tools addressing the usage of technology information and manufacturing feedback in the system-, RTL- and logic level design. The influence of the nanometer technologies' (application-dependent) yield and other issues on the system-, RTL- and logic-level design. System-level trade-off analysis and multi-objective (yield, power, delay, area .) optimization. Effective and efficient design, implementation, analysis and validation of large SoCs integrating IP blocks from multiple vendors.
Submission of Papers ==================== Paper submission must be done on-line via the conference web site at
I Title of the paper II Name, affiliation, complete mailing address and phone, fax, and email of the first author III Name, affiliations, city, state, country of additional authors IV Person to whom correspondence should be sent, if other than the 1st author V Suggested area (as listed above)
The guidelines for the final paper format are provided on the conference web site at
Paper Submission Deadline
October 26, 2005
Acceptance Notifications
November 1, 2005
Final Camera-Ready paper Janurary 3, 2006
About ISQED =========== The International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), is a premier Design & Design Automation conference, aimed at bridging the gap between and integration of, electronic design tools and processes, integrated circuit technologies, processes & manufacturing, to achieve design quality. ISQED is the pioneer and leading conference dealing with design for manufacturability and quality issues front-to-back. The conference provides a forum to present and exchange ideas and to promote the research, development, and application of design techniques & methods, design processes, and EDA design methodologies and tools that address issues which impact the quality of the realization of designs into physical integrated circuits. The conference attendees are primarily designers of the VLSI circuits & systems (IP & SoC), those involved in the research, development, and application of EDA/CAD Tools & design flows, process/device technologists, and semiconductor manufacturing specialists including equipment vendors. ISQED emphasizes a holistic approach toward design quality and intends to highlight and accelerate cooperation among the IC Design, EDA, Semiconductor Process Technology and Manufacturing communities.