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Call for Papers
DUHDe - 1st Workshop on Design Automation for Understanding Hardware Designs

March 28, 2014 - Friday Workshop at DATE 2014, Dresden, Germany

http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/duhde2014/
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/duhde2014/DUHDe_cfp.pdf

Deadline for submissions: November 24, 2013
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2013
Camera ready papers: February 15, 2013

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 1st Workshop on Design Automation for Understanding Hardware
Designs (DUHDe) is to establish a 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

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; accepted papers will NOT be included in the DATE proceedings. The
authors retain the copyright of their work and are free to submit extended
versions to a conference or journal.
Contributions have to be submitted through Easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=duhde2014

Important dates
Deadline for submissions: November 24, 2013
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2013
Camera ready papers: February 15, 2013

COMMITTEE
Organizers

Emmanuelle Encrenaz-Tiphene, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Email : Emmanuelle.Encrenaz@lip6.fr

Goerschwin Fey, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and University of Bremen,
Germany
Email : fey@informatik.uni-bremen.de

Technical PC

Lyes Benalycherif, ST Microelectronics, Grenoble, France

Valeria Bertacco, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Raik Brinkmann, OneSpinSolutions GmbH, Munich, Germany

Franco Fummi, Universita degli Studi di Verona, Italy

Masahiro Fujita, University of Tokyo, Japan

Wenchao Li, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Tun Li, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China