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DATE 2011 General Chair’s Message

Welcome to DATE2011 which will take place in the beautiful city of Grenoble, France, from 14 to 18 March, 2011. Grenoble is a key semiconductor site in Europe, and a major industrial and scientific centre for micro and nano electronics, making it a perfect place for hosting DATE2011.

DATE2011 will be the place to learn about the latest in the design and engineering of electronic systems and embedded software, please read the message from the Technical Programme Chair, Professor Enrico Macii. DATE 2011 will feature two Special Days focussing on topics of outstanding importance to industry and academia and will dedicate a full-day program of keynotes, panels, tutorials and technical presentations to each of them. The special days are: Smart Devices of the Future and Intelligent Energy Management-Supply and Utilisation.

DATE has a vibrant and professional exhibition which provides excellent opportunities for close interaction between industrial and scientific research, managers, designers, developers, and others. The exhibition in Grenoble will feature a multitude of world market-leaders and numerous start-ups in the semiconductor and EDA sectors. I would be delighted to hear from you if you are considering to exhibit at DATE, or becoming a supporter of DATE.

For more detailed information on DATE2011, visit http://www.date-conference.com/. Join us for an informative and inspiring week in Grenoble.

Best Wishes
Bashir M. Al-Hashimi
University of Southampton, UK
General Chair, DATE2011 

DATE 2011 Technical Program Chair’s Message

Dear DATE contributors and participant,

In line with the tradition, one of the distinguishing characteristics of DATE2011 will be the quality of the technical program, which will feature presentations covering a broad spectrum of topics relevant to the design, automation and test of electronic circuits and (embedded) systems, including both the hardware and the software components.

The final program will consist of a few hundreds of papers; selecting them among the 900+ submissions that we are expecting will not be an easy task. To accomplish it in the best possible manner, and thus ensure an outstanding quality to the technical program, a Technical Program Committee (TPC) has been set up, organized using a hierarchical model. Three “Track Chairs” have been appointed by the General Chair and myself to take care of the paper selection process for the “Application Topics” (Dr. Pol Marchal from IMEC), for the “Test Topics” (Dr. Erik Jan Marinissen from IMEC) and for the “Embedded Software Topics” (Prof. Petru Eles from Linkopping University), respectively, while I will take care personally of the “Design Topics”. Within these four “Tracks”, we have defined a total of 30 “Topics” (15 in Track D, 6 in Track A, 5 in Track T and 4 in Track E), and for each Topic a subcommittee of expert, led by a Chair and a Co-Chair has been appointed; they will manage, under the supervision of the Track Chairs and of the TPC Chair the paper selection process, which will take place in September-October 2011 and which will have its final act during the TPC Meeting that will be held in Torino on October 21, 2010.

Compared to the previous years, the number of topics included in the program has slightly decreased; this in the attempt of making author’s life easier, as they will have to deal with fewer (yet sharper) definitions of the scope of the topics, and will thus find it simpler to decide to what topics their contributions should be submitted.

In addition to this, also the composition of the TPC has been somehow revised, with the purpose of privileging the quality of the paper reviews over the quantity. I strongly believe that for an author it is more important to read meaningful and detailed comments of three-four reviewers than six-seven superficial assessment reports.

A final remark regarding the DATE2011 Technical Program is that, for the first time, besides the regular papers and interactive presentations we are used to since quite some time, it will feature short, 2-page papers, which will give a chance (primarily to industry) of pointing to the community real-life design and technology challenges that should address in a short-to-medium term.

The months to come will be very work-intensive for the entire TPC; I am sure that all together we will be able to deliver, as output of our effort, a DATE2011 Technical Program which will be in line with DATE’s tradition and that will satisfy the expectations of all the conference attendee’s. I am thus looking forward to working with the Track Chairs, the Topics Chairs and Co-Chairs, as well as all the members of the TPC in the near future.

Enrico Macii
Politecnico di Torino
Technical Program Chair, DATE2011
 

DATE 2011 - Call for Papers

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The 14th DATE conference and exhibition is the main European event bringing together designers and design automation users, researchers and vendors, as well as specialists in the hardware and software design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. It puts strong emphasis on ICs/SoCs, reconfigurable hardware and embedded systems, including embedded software.

The five-day event consists of a conference with plenary invited papers, regular papers, panels, hot-topic sessions, tutorials and workshops, two special focus days and a track for executives. The scientific conference is complemented by a commercial exhibition showing the state-of-the-art in design and test tools, methodologies, IP and design services, reconfigurable and other hardware platforms, embedded software, and (industrial) design experiences from different application domains, e.g. automotive, wireless, telecom and multimedia applications. The organisation of user group meetings, fringe meetings, a university booth, a PhD forum, vendor presentations and social events offers a wide variety of extra opportunities to meet and exchange information on relevant issues for the design and test community. Special space will also be allocated for EU-funded projects to show their results.

The Conference

The conference addresses all aspects of research into technologies for electronic and (embedded) systems engineering. It covers the design process, test, and tools for design automation of electronic products ranging from integrated circuits to distributed large-scale systems. [...]

The Exhibition

The conference is complemented a large exhibition and unique networking opportunity for vendors of tools and services for hardware and embedded software for the design, development and test of Systems-on-Chip, IPs, Embedded Systems, ASICs, FPGAs and PCBs including a broad range of design reuse technologies and services.
To inform attendees on commercial and design related topics, there will be a full programme in the Exhibition Theatre which will combine presentations by exhibiting companies and selected conference special sessions.

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