DUHDe 2015

DUHDe - 2nd Workshop on Design Automation for Understanding Hardware Designs

Workshop at DATE 2015

Scope of the workshop and target audience

Understanding a hardware design is tough. When entering a large team as a new member, when extending a legacy design, or when documenting a new design, a lack in understanding the details of a design is a major obstacle for productivity. In software engineering topics like software maintenance, software understanding, reverse engineering are well established in the research community and partially tackled by tools. In the hardware area the re-use of IP-blocks, the growing size of designs and design teams leads to similar problems. Understanding of hardware requires deep insight into concurrently operating units, optimizations to reduce the required area, and specially tailored functional units for a particular use.

The workshop is of interest to practitioners working in circuit design and to researchers interested in design automation.

The aim of the 2nd Workshop on Design Automation for Understanding Hardware Designs (DUHDe) is to consolidate the community for these topics in electronic design automation. The workshop is not limited to the following topics in design understanding but includes:

• Design descriptions from the ESL down to RTL
• Extraction of high-level properties
• Localization of code implementing specialized functionality
• Hardware design evolution : feature integration, feature

interactions

• Innovative GUIs for design
• Managing documentation of hardware designs
• Analysis of interaction between hardware and software
• Formal methods for design understanding
• Scalable approaches to design understanding

Call for Papers and Submission Instructions

Prospective authors are requested to submit extended abstracts of 2 pages or full papers of 6 pages in IEEE conference style. Authors of accepted contributions are required to present their work at the workshop. Informal proceedings will be distributed electronically to the participants of the workshop. The authors retain the copyright of their work and are free to submit extended versions to a conference or journal. Alternatively posters may be submitted that will not be contained in the informal proceedings.

Contributions have to be submitted through Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=duhde2015.

Deadline for extended abstracts or full papers: November 7, 2014
Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2014
Deadline for poster submissions: January 10, 2015
Notification for posters: January 25, 2015
Camera ready papers and posters: February 1, 2015

Event format

The workshop is organized as a Friday workshop associated to DATE 2015.
The topic of design understanding is relatively new as a research topic in hardware. The goal of the workshop is to solicit presentations that resemble early ideas or summarize existing work.

The workshop will have the following elements:

Invited talk from industry on current issues : Eli Arbel, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel

Invited talk from academia on generation of properties : Shobha Vasudevan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Long presentations of selected contributions (15 mn presentation + 15 mn
questions)

Poster and panel sessions

Organizers :

• Emmanuelle Encrenaz-Tiphene, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
• Goerschwin Fey, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and University of Bremen, Germany

Technical Program Commitee :

• Eli Arbel, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel
• Lyes Benalycherif, ST Microelectronics, Grenoble, France
• Valeria Bertacco, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
• Raik Brinkmann, OneSpinSolutions GmbH, Munich, Germany
• Masahiro Fujita, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Franco Fummi, Universita degli Studi di Verona, Italy
• Ian G. Harris, University of California Irvine, USA
• Maksim Jenihhin, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Tun Li ,National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China