| Editor |
De Micheli, Giovanni Hamaguchi, Kiyoharu Parameswaran, Sri Roy, Kaushik Dutt, Nikil Wong, Martin D. F. Chen, Yirng-An Moshnyaga, Vasily Hartenstein, Reiner Kukimoto, Yuji Oguri, Kiyoshi Chang, Yao-Weng Onodera, Hidetoshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Gupta, Rajesh Lee, Seongsoo Wang, Li-C. Cong, Jason Ochi, Hiroyuki Shukla, Sandeep K. Crouch, Alfred Inoue, Takahide Rajsuman, Rochit Mehta, Dinesh P. Shigyo, Naoyuki Rosenstiel, Wolfgang Cheng, Kwang-Ting Tsukahara, Tsuneo Miyamori, Takashi Ishiura, Nagisa Edahiro, Masato Fujita, Masahiro Shiraiashi, Yoichi Pedram, Massoud Benini, Luca Wakabayashi, Shin'ichi Hong, Xinlong Kawahito, Shoji Imai, Masaharu Hashimoto, Masanori Marculescu, Radu Nakajima, Kazuo Ueno, Hiroaki Takada, Hiroaki Nagata, Makoto Nakamura, Tadahiko Date, Hiroshi Yuan, Xin Wada, Tomohisa Tamiya, Yutaka Inoue, Tomoo Hung, Yu-Chung Fukuda, Akira Kimura, Shinji Wang, Albert Z. H. Ki, Wing-Hung Kobayashi, Kazutoshi Chang, Naehyuck Yamada, Masaaki Sato, Yasuo Minato, Shin-Ichi Takashima, Yasuhiro Ishihara, Tohru Reuss, Robert Yasuura, Hiroto Yu, Zhiping Matsushita, Satoshi |
| Abstract |
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to welcome you to the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2003(ASP-DAC 2003), a sister conference of DAC and DATE. ASP-DAC 2003 will be held in Kitakyushu City, the largest industrial city in Kyushu Island, Japan. Kyushu is a center of semiconductor fabrication in Japan and now growing into a center of SoC (System-on-a-Chip) design. The goal of the ASP-DAC is to provide an international forum for researchers and engineers in the area of SoC/VLSI design, and EDA/CAD technologies.We have three excellent keynote speakers, Prof. Geonvanni De Micheli (Stanford Univ.), Prof. Tadahiro Ohmi (Tohoku Univ.) and Dr. Yervant Zorian (Virage Logic), who will talk about future directions of Semiconductor Industries and SoC design technologies.The Technical Program Committee, under the leadership of Prof. Masaharu Imai and Prof. Jason Cong, reviewed 235 papers from 22 countries to organize the outstanding program. 119 papers are selected for presentation in the Conference. The selected papers cover the wide variety of hot topics from system design level to physical design including embedded systems, reconfigurable systems, analog circuits, and TCAD. The program also includes a session for design examples and 3 panel discussions. The University LSI Design Contest is also an important event of ASP-DAC, which focuses a real chip design in academia. The Design Contest Committee, chaired by Prof. TomohisaWada, selected 17 designs for presentation, from which winners of design awards will be announced in the conference. On Tuesday, three full-day and two half-day tutorials are scheduled to give complete introductions of state-of-the-art design/CAD topics.Asia South Pacific region is now growing up very quickly in the design of SoC and VLSI as well as fabrication technology of semiconductor. This region will become the largest market of IT products in the world and also lead the progress of design technologies of SoC in the next five years. ASP-DAC 2003 will be a precious opportunity for you to find valuable information by exchanging ideas with researchers and engineers working on SoC/VLSI design technologies.I hope you will have a valuable and enjoyable experience at Kitakyushu, Japan, in next January. |
