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      <font color=3D"#000080">QUALITY ELECTRONIC DESIGN</font></a><br>=0D=
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      manufacturability and quality issues front-to-back.  ISQED spa=
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      days, Monday through Wednesday, in three parallel tracks, hosting n=
ear 100 =0D
      technical presentations, six keynote speakers, two-three panel =0D
      discussions, workshops /tutorials and other informal meetings. Conf=
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      proceedings are published by IEEE Computer Society and hosted in th=
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      digital library. Proceedings CD ROMs are published by ACM.  In=
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      continuing the tradition of reaching a wider readership in the IC d=
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      community, ISQED will continue to publish special issues in leading=
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      journals. The authors of high quality papers will be invited to sub=
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      </font></b></font><font size=3D"2">A pioneer and leading multidisci=
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      manufacturing, VLSI design and EDA. Authors are invited to submit p=
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      in the various disciplines of high level design, circuit design, te=
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      verification, design automation tools; processes; flows, device mod=
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      semiconductor technology, and advance packaging. <br>=0D
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      </font><b><font size=3D"2" color=3D"#000080">1. Manufacturing, proc=
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      <x-tab>        </x-tab></fo=
nt></b><font size=3D"2">1.1 Design for =0D
      Manufacturability & Quality (DFMQ)<br>=0D
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Effects of Technology on IC Design, =0D
      Performance, Reliability, and Yield  (TRD)<br>=0D
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nt></b><font size=3D"2">2.1 System-level Design, =0D
      Methodologies & Tools (SDM)<br>=0D
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Package - Design Interactions & Co-Design  (PDI)<br>=0D
      <x-tab>        </x-tab>2.3 =
Robust Device, Interconnect, and Circuits (RDIC)<br>=0D
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      </font><b><font size=3D"2" color=3D"#000080">3. EDA/CAD<br>=0D
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nt></b><font size=3D"2">3.1 EDA Methodologies, =0D
      Tools, & IP Cores; Interoperability  and Reuse(EDA)<br>=0D=
      <x-tab>        </x-tab>3.2 =
Design Verification and Design for Testability =0D
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Physical Design, Methodologies & Tools (PDM)<br>=0D
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      </font><font color=3D"#000080"><b><font size=3D"2">Design for =0D
      Manufacturability & Quality (DFMQ)<br>=0D
      </font></b></font><font size=3D"2">Analysis, modeling, and abstract=
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      manufacturing process parameters and effects for highly predictable=
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      silicon performance.  Design and synthesis of high complexity =
ICs:  signal =0D
      integrity,  transmission line effects, OPC, phase shifting,&nb=
sp; and =0D
      sub-wavelength lithography, manufacturing yield and technology =0D
      capability.  Design for diagnosability,  defect detection=
 and tolerance;  =0D
      self-diagnosis, calibration and repair.  Design and manufactur=
abilty =0D
      issues for Digital, analog, mixed signal, RF, MEMS, opto-electronic=
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      biochemical-electronic, and nanotechnology based ICs. Redundency an=
d other =0D
      yield improving techniques. Design quality definitions and standard=
s; =0D
      design quality metrics to track and assess the quality of electroni=
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      circuit design, as well as the quality of the design process itself=
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      design quality assurance techniques.  Global, social, and econ=
omic =0D
      implications of design quality.  Design metrics, methodologies=
 and flows =0D
      for custom, semi-custom, ASIC, FPGA, RF, memory, networking circuit=
, etc. =0D
      with emphasis on quality.  Design metrics and quality standard=
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esign  (PDI)<br>=0D
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ity. 3D =0D
      design challenges.  Electrical and thermal model of package an=
d =0D
      package-die interactions.  SoC versus system in a package (SiP=
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      tradeoffs.  di/dt modeling techniques. MCM and other packaging=
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      Die and package power delivery modeling and simulation, heat sink =0D=
      technology modeling, design and optimization. <br>=0D
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bility (DVFT)<br>=0D
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n =0D
      verification techniques to ensure the functional correctness of har=
dware =0D
      early in the design cycle. DFT and BIST for digital and SoC.  =
DFT for =0D
      analog/mixed-signal ICs and systems-on-chip, DFT/BIST for memories.=
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      synthesis and synthesis for testability.  DFT economics, DFT c=
ase =0D
      studies.  DFT and ATE.  Fault diagnosis,  IDDQ test,=
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      prediction. SoC/IP testing strategies. <br>=0D
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      <font color=3D"#000080"><b>Robust Device, Interconnect, and Circuit=
s (RDIC)<br>=0D
      </b></font>Device, substrate, interconnect, circuit , and IP block =
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      modeling and simulation techniques;  quality metrics, model or=
der =0D
      reduction; CMOS, Bipolar, and SiGe HBTs device modeling in the cont=
ext of =0D
      advanced digital, RF and high-speed circuits.  Modeling and si=
mulation of =0D
      novel device and interconnect concepts. Signal integrity analysis: =
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      coupling, inductive and charge sharing noise; noise avoidance techn=
iques. =0D
      Power grid design, analysis and optimization; timing analysis and =0D=
      optimization; thermal analysis and design techniques for thermal =0D=
      management.  Modeling statistical process variations to improv=
e design =0D
      margin and robustness, use of statistical circuit simulators. =0D
      Power-conscious design methodologies and tools; low power devices, =
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      circuits and systems; power-aware computing and communication; =
; =0D
      system-level power optimization and management. Design techniques f=
or =0D
      leakage current management. <br>=0D
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      <font color=3D"#000080"><b>EDA Methodologies, Tools, & IP Cores=
; =0D
      Interoperability  and Reuse (EDA)<br>=0D
      </b></font>EDA tools addressing design quality. Management of desig=
n =0D
      process, design flows and design databases. EDA tools interoperabil=
ity =0D
      issues and implications. Effect of emerging technologies, processes=
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      devices on design flows, tools, and tool interoperability. Emerging=
 EDA =0D
      standards. EDA design methodologies and tools that address issues w=
hich =0D
      impact the quality of the realization of designs into physical inte=
grated =0D
      circuits. IP modeling and abstraction. Design and maintenance of =0D=
      technology independent hard and soft IP blocks. Methods and tools f=
or =0D
      analysis, comparison and qualification of libraries and hard IP blo=
cks. =0D
      Challenges and solutions of the integration, testing, and qualifyin=
g of IP =0D
      blocks from multiple vendors. Third party testing of IP blocks. Ris=
k =0D
      management of IP reuse. IP authoring tools and methodologies.<br>=0D=
      <br>=0D
      <font color=3D"#000080"><b>Physical Design, Methodologies & Too=
ls (PDM)<br>=0D
      </b></font>Physical synthesis flows for correct-by-construction qua=
lity =0D
      silicon, implementation of large SoC designs.  Tool frameworks=
 and =0D
      datamodels for tightly integrated incremental synthesis, placement,=
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      routing, timing analysis and verification.  Placement, optimiz=
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      routing techniques for noise sensitivity reduction and fixing. =
; Algorithms =0D
      and flows for harnessing crosstalk-delay during physical synthesis.=
  Tool =0D
      flows and techniques for antenna rule and electromigration rule avo=
idance =0D
      and fixing.  Spare-cell strategies for ECO, decoupling capacit=
ance and =0D
      antenna rule fixing.  Planning tools for predictable high-curr=
ent, =0D
      low-voltage power distribution. Reliable clock tree generation and =
clock =0D
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design =0D
      techniques, and methodologies, dealing with issues such as: timing =
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      closure, R, L, C extraction, ground/Vdd bounce, signal noise/cross-=
talk =0D
      /substrate noise, voltage drop, power rail integrity, electromigrat=
ion, =0D
      hot carriers, EOS/ESD, plasma induced damage and other yield limiti=
ng =0D
      effects, high frequency effects, thermal effects, power estimation,=
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      EMI/EMC, proximity correction & phase shift methods, verificati=
on (layout, =0D
      circuit, function, etc.).<br>=0D
      <br>=0D
      <font color=3D"#000080"><b>Effects of Technology on IC Design, Perf=
ormance, =0D
      Reliability, and Yield  (TRD)<br>=0D
      </b></font>Effect of emerging processes & devices on design?s t=
ime to =0D
      market, yield, reliability, and quality.  Emerging issues in D=
SM CMOS: =0D
      e.g. sub-threshold leakage, gate leakage, technology road mapping a=
nd =0D
      technology extrapolation techniques.  New and novel technologi=
es such as =0D
      SOI, Double-Gate(DG)-MOSFET, Gate-All-Around (GAA)-MOSFET, Vertical=
-MOSFET, =0D
      strained CMOS, high-bandwidth metallization, etc.  Challenges =
of =0D
      mixed-signal design in digital CMOS or BiCMOS technology, including=
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      of substrate coupling, cross-talk and power supply noise.  Sig=
nificance of =0D
      reliability effects such as gate oxide integrity,  electromigr=
ation, ESD, =0D
      etc.,  in relation to electronic design.  Impacts of proc=
ess technologies =0D
      on circuit design and capabilities (e.g. low-Vt transistors versus =
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      increased off-state leakages) and the accuracy, use and implementat=
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      SPICE models that faithfully reflect process technologies. Successf=
ul =0D
      applications of TCAD to circuit design. <br>=0D
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      <font color=3D"#000080"><b>System-level Design, Methodologies &=
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      </b></font>Global, Social, and Economical Implications of Electroni=
c =0D
      System and Design Quality. Emerging standards and regulations influ=
encing =0D
      system quality. Emerging system-level design paradigms, methods and=
 tools =0D
      aiming at quality. System-level design process and flow management.=
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      System-level design modeling, analysis and synthesis, estimation an=
d =0D
      verification for correct high-quality hardware/software systems. =0D=
      Responsive, secure, and defect tolerant systems. New concepts, meth=
ods and =0D
      tools addressing system-level design complexity and multitude of as=
pects. =0D
      Methods and tools addressing the usage of technology information an=
d =0D
      manufacturing feedback in the system-, RTL- and logic level design.=
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      influence of the nanometer technologies' (application-dependent) yi=
eld and =0D
      other issues on the system-, RTL- and logic-level design. System-le=
vel =0D
      trade-off analysis and multi-objective (yield, power, delay, area ?=
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      optimization. Effective and efficient design, implementation, analy=
sis and =0D
      validation of large SoCs integrating IP blocks from multiple vendor=
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      bridging the gap between and integration of, electronic design tool=
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      achieve design quality. ISQED is the pioneer and leading conference=
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