WORKSHOP: EDA Education and Research Workshop (EDA)

EDA Education and Research Workshop (EDA) at ICCAD

Organizers: Satoshi Goto - Waseda Univ., Kitakyushu, Japan
Yao-Wen Chang - National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Sponsored by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan, Waseda University in Japan, National Taiwan University, and ICCAD, this workshop invites EDA educators and researchers to have a one-day forum on EDA education and research, including curriculum development, education/teaching experience sharing, recent research topics and directions for the next 10 years, etc. The purpose is to connect worldwide EDA educators and researchers and to provide guidance for the aforementioned issues. This workshop is free with advance registration. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and coffee will be served.

Time: 9am--6pm, November 9th, 2008 (Sunday)

Place: Oak Ballroom, The DoubleTree Hotel, San Jose, CA

Breakfast: Time 8:00-8:50am, Oak Ballroom

Opening: Time 9:00-9:10am [slide]
Satoshi Goto (Waseda Univ., Kitakyushu, Japan)[bio]
Yao-Wen Chang (National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan)[bio]

Session I: EDA Education Programs in the World
         Time: 9:10-11:00am
         Chair: Yao-Wen Chang (National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan)[bio]
         Speakers: Georges Gielen (Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium) [slide][bio]
                      Sheqin Dong [bio] / Jinyu Zhang [bio] (Tisnghua Univ., Beijing, China)[slide]
                      Shinji Kimura (Waseda Univ., Kitakyushu, Japan))[slide][bio]
                      Hidetoshi Onodera (Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan)[slide][bio]
                      Jyuo-Min Shyu (National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan)[slide][bio]

David Pan, (Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX)[slide][bio]

Coffee Break: Time: 11:00-11:30pm

Session II: Future EDA Education and Research Directions from the IDM and Foundry Perspective

Time: 11:30am-12:30pm

Chair: Louis Scheffer (Janelia Farms Research Campus, Ashburn, VA) [bio]

Speakers: Kai-Yuan Kevin Chao (Intel, Hillsboro, OR)[slide][bio]
Kazutoshi Wakabayashi (NEC Corp., Kanagawa, Japan)[slide][bio]
David Lan (TSMC Ltd., San Jose, CA)[slide][bio]

Lunch: Time 12:30-2:00pm, Fir Ballroom

Session III: Future EDA Education and Research Directions from the EDA Vendors' Perspectives
         Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm
         Chair: Ting-Chi Wang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan)[bio]
         Speakers: Louis Scheffer (Janelia Farms Research Campus, Ashburn, VA)[slide][bio]
                      Patrick Groeneveld (Magma Design Automation, Inc., San Jose, CA)[slide][bio]

Charles Chiang (Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA)[slide][bio]

Coffee break: Time: 3:00pm-3:30pm

Session IV: Future EDA Education and Research Directions from the Academic Perspective
         Time: 3:30pm-5:40pm
         Chair: Satoshi Goto (Waseda Univ., Kitakyushu, Japan)[bio]
         Speakers: C. K. Cheng (Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA)[slide][bio]
                      Jong-Wha Chong (Hangyang Univ., Seoul, Korea))[slide][bio]
                      Giovanni De Micheli (Ecole Polytèchniquè Federale de Lausanne,

   Lausanne, Switzerland)[slide][bio]
                      Tei-Wei Kuo (National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan)[slide][bio]
                      Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA)[slide][bio]
                      Martin D. F. Wong (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Urbana, IL)[slide][bio]

Closing: Time 5:40pm-5:50pm [slide]
Satoshi Goto (Waseda Univ., Kitakyushu, Japan)

Dinner: Time 6:00-8:00pm