IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation

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IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation

• Report to SSCS Adcom
• Bryan Ackland
• 8/28/06

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Members of CEDA

• Societies
• APS (8067)
• CAS (12099)
• CS (93009)
• EDS (11509)
• SSCS (12364)
• MTT (12047)

• Tech. Member Org.
• DAC
• ICCAD
• T-CAD
• DT
• CANDE
• DATC

SSCS Reps to CDA Adcom Bryan Ackland Jan Rabaey
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CEDA Activities

• Newsletter CEDA Currents
• edited by Kartikeya Mayaram, Preeti Ranjan Panda
• quarterly (approx.) - 3rd issue distributed at
  DAC
• Distinguished Speaker Series
• Presentations by winners 2005 T-CAD Best Paper
  Award
• Cadence (May) DAC (July)
• Expand with best paper winners from conferences
  etc.
• Online video access (DAC model)
• Sponsored IWLS Programming Challenge
• Student contest to develop new synthesis tools
  and scripts
• Proposal to jointly sponsor Kaufman award
• With EDA Consortium
• Duplicate submission/publication tools
• Periodic hash function to measure similarity of
  submissions
• Not possible to reconstruct original paper
• Trials in 2006 full deployment in 2007

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Transactions on CAD

• Editor Enrico Macii
• Large backlog - 14 months
• Limits reader interest
• Limits Explote income
• Goal to reduce to 6 months
• Purchase extra pages in 2006 (approx 20k)
• From 1866 to 3106 (leverage CAS 100k)
• Reduce max. paper length to 14 pages
• Reduce acceptance ratio (from 60 to 35-40)

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CEDA CONFERENCES(increased from 3 sponsored
conferences to 9)

• Conference   Sponsorship     Other
  Sponsors           Estimated 2006
  RevenueCODESISSS 10 ACM/SIGDA, CASS, CS
  1,600DAC 6.6 ACM/SIGDA, CASS, EDAC 13,597DATE 2
  ACM/SIGDA, EDAA, EDAC, CS 4,377
  FMCAD 25 FMCAD    280ICCAD 13.5 ACM/SIGDA,
  CASS, CS    949MEMOCODE 15 ACM/SIGDA, CASS,
  CS    676MPSoC 50 CASS, CS, EDAA   
  530PATMOS 5 CNRS, UM2, IEEE CASS     
  8VLSI-SOC 20 IFIP    785 Total Conf.
  Revenue 22,802

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2006 Projected Expenditures

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2007 budget - income
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2007 budget - expenditures
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Members of CEDA AdCom