Proposal to form IEEE CAD Council

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Proposal to form IEEECAD Council

• Bryan Ackland
• SSCS rep. to TAB ad-hoc committee
• 2/6/05

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Evolution of CAD Technology

• Computer aided design
• Set of technologies evolved to deal with
  complexity in design of integrated systems
• Originally SPICE, circuit simulation, and Calma
  drawing systems
• Nowadays it spans many topics
• Physical mixed signal CAD solid state
  circuits
• Embedded system CAD computer systems
• Technology CAD modeling of electron devices
• Wireless technology CAD design of antennas
• System design CAD design of circuits and systems

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CAD Professional Community

• Innovation in CAD requires
• Large multidisciplinary community (5000-10,000
  within IEEE)
• Vertical integration of different technologies
• ACM SIGDA has strong growth
• Open, multi-faceted organization
• Covers many of the CAD needs
• Strong university support
• IEEE has no corresponding organization
• Lack of coordination
• Loss of relevance and members
• CAD industry revolves around the EDA Consortium
• CAD industry funding and activities bypasses IEEE

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The case for an IEEE CAD council

• An IEEE CAD Council can be instrumental in being
  the focal point for CAD activities
• Will bring value to IEEE and member Societies
• Will coordinate CAD activities
• A TAB ad hoc committee has studied various
  options and has determined
• A Field of Interest for the council
• A Constitution and Bylaws for the council
• A set of links with Societies who would like to
  become members

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TAB Ad Hoc Committee(for the CAD council)

• Society Representatives include
• IEEE-Antennas and Propagation Society Rep. John
  Volakis
• IEEE-Circuits and Systems Society Rep. Georges
  Gielen
• IEEE-Computer Society Rep. Yervant Zorian
• IEEE-Electron Devices Society Rep. Steve
  Hillenius
• IEEE-Solid State Circuits Society Rep. Bryan
  Ackland
• Technical Committee representatives include
• CANDE(IEEE-CASS) Dick Smith
• DATC(IEEE-CS) Ron Waxman
• Other members
• Raul Camposano CTO Synopsys
• Giovanni De Micheli CAD Prof. EPFL, 03 CAS Pres
• Al Dunlop Consultant, CAS BOG
• Rajesh Gupta CAD Prof UCSD, EIC
  IEEE-DesignTest
• Andreas Kuehlmann Director of Cadence
  Laboratories
• Enrico Macii CAD Prof Politecnico di Torino,
  CAS BOG
• Massoud Pedram CAD Prof USC, CAS VP Publ

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The Field of Interest

• The field of interest of the council spans the
  theory, implementation and use of CAD tools to
  design integrated electronic circuits and
  systems.
• This includes tools that automate all levels
  of the design, analysis and verification of
  hardware and embedded software up to and
  including complete working systems.

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Highlights of CB

• Member Societies
• Those societies having interest in CAD
• Each society has two representatives for two
  years
• Technology Members Organizations
• Conferences, publications or organizations
  related to CAD
• Bring technical leadership to the council
• One representative per TMO
• AdCom - representatives from
• Societies
• TMOs
• Officers and Standing Committee Chairs
• Officers
• Elected by AdCom

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Sponsoring Societies

• All Societies have been invited to join the CAD
  council initiative
• Societies that expressed support
• Antenna and Propagation
• Circuits and Systems
• Computer
• Electron Devices
• Solid State Circuits
• All these Societies have representatives in the
  ad hoc committee

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Founding Member Technology Organizations

• The Design Automation Conference
• Currently supported by IEEE/CAS, ACM/SIGDA and
  EDA Consortium
• The International Conference on Computer Aided
  Design
• Currently supported by IEEE/CAS, IEEE/CS and
  ACM/SIGDA
• The Transactions on Computer-Aided Design
• Currently sponsored by CAS
• Design And Test Magazine
• Currently sponsored by IEEE/CS and by IEEE/CAS
  (small share)
• The Computer Aided Network Design TC of CAS
• The Design Automation TC of CS

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Value of Council to IEEE SSCS

• The overall impact of the activities will be
  larger than the sum of the fragmented parts
• The council will start new activities
• Attract and retain members
• Generate new income
• The council will have a strong technical
  character

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SSCS AdCom Motion

• That SSCS support of the formation of the CAD
  Council and commit up to 10K seed money if
  necessary

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Backup
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Computer Aided Design

• What is CAD ?
• Computer-aided design is a set of technologies to
  design systems using computational methods that
  analyze and/or synthesize its circuits and
  components
• What are the technology drivers ?
• Systems on chips
• Complete electronic systems integrated in a
  single die
• Systems in packages
• Systems consisting of multiple integrated or
  discrete components packaged together
• Integrated circuits based on silicon or
  heterogeneous technologies, including nano
  technologies
• Technology migration to ever smaller geometries
• What is the state of the art ?
• CAD has a vibrant industry (more than 4B/year)
• System design is continuously challenged by
  complexity (large scale) and technology (small
  scale) issues, requiring continuously newer CAD
  tools

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CAD Council new activities

• For young member growth and retention
• Ph.D. forum program at various meetings
• Showcase best university graduate research
• CADathlon competitions
• Grow and reward best young professionals
• Make junior IEEE members (student and recent
  graduates) aware, proud and active in IEEE
  activities
• For the CAD industrial community
• Involve major CAD industries
• Provide active link between Council and
  IEEE/Standards
• Accelera, VSIA,
• Involve industry in the definition of new
  publications to become more effective in reaching
  out to the industrial world

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CAD Council new activities

• Exploit cross-disciplinary nature of council
• New meetings
• Design technologies for novel technologies, such
  as nano, bio-related systems
• Explore the hot spots at the cross-road between
  traditional areas represented by societies
• New publications may follow along this line
• Use new web-based information and content
  delivery
• Study and promote ways of providing essential
  information to members on technology updates, as
  complements to the IEEE Xplore repository
• Links between technology, announcements, company
  values, etc.
• Ubiquitous presence of CAD Council information
  via novel, web-based delivery and member
  interaction
• Engage IEEE members

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Expanding existing activities

• Linking some conferences with CAD industry
• Coordinating world industry participation in DAC,
  DATE and ASPDAC shows, to increase presence
• Provide a more cost-effective means to showcase
  RD tools
• Provide a good link between design and test
  disciplines
• Provide a bridge to Computer Societys activities
  in test
• Design and test are two faces of the same coin
• Design for yield/reliability is a major issue in
  microelectronics

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CAD Council new style

• The CAD Council is meant to be a lean technical
  organization
• Light administrative structure
• Strong technical orientation
• Volunteerism
• Recreate a climate of volunteerism
• Foster enthusiasm for IEEE within CAD industry
• The CAD Council wants to be an example of an IEEE
  organization of a new style
• Totally transnational
• Innovative in nature
• Less political
• Fast communication
• Embracing new technologies

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Overall impact DAC

• CAS is the only IEEE sponsor of DAC
• The CAD field has expanded tremendously
• In the physical design direction for DSM
• Toward embedded systems and software
• DAC has tried to be successful in Embedded
  Systems
• Success has been very limited
• DAC has sessions exchanges with ISSCC
• Very well received sessions at both conferences
• DAC needs the support of volunteers from
• SSCS and EDS to support DSM work
• CS and APS to support embedded and wireless
  system design
• These needs are serious. If DAC does not open up
  its perspectives, it will become obsolete and
  suffer seriously the competition of DesignCon
• DACs surplus is a major resource for IEEE and
  the community. To keep the inflow, DAC must have
  a bigger scope, and ride the technology wave

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Overall impact ICCAD

• CAS and CS are the IEEE sponsors of ICCAD
• The CAD field has expanded tremendously, but
  ICCAD has halved its attendance over 10 years
• With an injection of new ideas, ICCAD can play a
  more significant role
• Show the effectiveness of CAD methods to circuit
  designers
• Attract engineers from SSCS and EDS communities
• Branch off to application areas, such as wireless
  design technology
• Attract engineers from APS community
• The CAD council can position ICCAD as a
  leadership conference better than the CAS CS
  societies alone
• Provide links to the EDA Consortium
• It is a shame that no IEEE Society has a tight
  contact with them
• Use ICCAD as a venue for the Kaufmann award
• Major industrial award in CAD

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Overall impact TCAD

• TCAD is the IEEE/CAS premiere journal on CAD
• But TCAD has been loosing membership
• The impact of TCAD is limited in CAD industries
• Most engineers in the CAD industry
• Read conference proceedings
• Are not interested in mathematical details
• The CAD Council can revitalize TCAD to be an
  attractive journal for both industry and academia
• Tie TCAD to the council technical activities
• Provide links to EDA Consortium and industries
• Continue to maintain very high standards

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Overall impact DT

• Design and Test is technically cosponsored by
  IEEE CS and CAS
• It is co-published by CS and CAS, with a formula
  that splits revenues according to subscribers
• Design and Test has an untapped potential
• Increase in readership by reaching both academic
  and industrial communities
• The latter likes magazine style articles
• Increase in advertisement revenue
• By tapping EDA companies
• The CAD Council can fuel a virtuous circle
• More exposure of articles ? more readers
• More readers ? more issues (go monthly)
• More issues ? more publicity (from vendors)
• More industrial readers --gt more exposure

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Overall Impact CODES/ISSS

• CODES/ISSS is the result of the merger of two
  conferences sponsored by CAS and CS
• Hw/Sw codesign is a fast growing area
• The conference is not up to expectations
• Too academically oriented
• The CAD Council can take charge of making
  CODES/ISSS the major system-level CAD conference
• The council is more likely to succeed due to its
  focused mission and technical competence