Friday Workshops

Co-Chairs:
Nicola Nicolici, McMaster University, CA
Peter Y K Cheung, Imperial College London, UK 

The DATE Friday Workshops initiative was first introduced in 2003 and, since then, the workshops topics and participation have increased to over 250 researchers and designers attending eight workshops at DATE 09. This initiative has now become an integral part of the conference, offering workshops on current and emerging important issues in design, test, EDA and software to complement the regular conference programme running throughout the week. They provide a unique opportunity for the various research and design communities to spend a day discussing the latest and the best, sharing their experiences and visions.

This year’s programme includes six workshop themes. Three workshops are related to architecture and technology, ranging from multi/many cores parallel platforms, 3D integration and silicon debugging. Two other workshops themes examine the fruits of large publicly funded consortia research into reconfigurable computing and process variability. The intention is that lessons learn would help in promoting new research consortia for future proposals. The final workshop is concerned with model-based engineering methods applied to embedded systems design.

Friday Workshop attendees should choose in advance one of W1, W2, W3, W4, W5 or W6. The Friday Workshops run from 0830 in the morning until 1700 in the afternoon. The individual timetables for each Friday Workshop vary and are as listed below.