Call for Designs   ASP-DAC 2005
University LSI Design Contest
      http://www.aspdac2005.com
January 18-21, 2005    Hotel Equatorial, Shanghai, China
January 18-21, 2005    Hotel Equatorial, Shanghai, China
Aim of the contest:
A unique feature of ASP-DAC 2005 is the University LSI Design Contest. The aim of the Contest is to encourage teaching and research of VLSI design at universities and other educational organizations. We invite submission of designs that fit in one or more of the following categories:
(1)	Integrated circuits designed and implemented on chips in universities and other educational organizations.
(2)	Designs that report actual measurements and implementations; and
(3)	Innovated design prototypes.
The designers of selected designs will be invited to present their designs in a special session at the Conference. Awards will be given to outstanding designs among those selected. 
Suggested Areas of Design: 
(1)	Analog, RF and Mixed-Signal Circuits; (2) Digital Signal Processing circuits;
(2)	Microprocessors, (4) Custom ASIC.
Methodology or technology used for implementation may include : (a) Full Custom and Cell-Based LSI circuits; (b) Gate arrays; and (c) FPGA/PLD.
Submission of Design Descriptions: 
A camera ready summary is required and is limited to two pages including figures, tables, and references. It is strongly recommended that experimental results and a chip micrograph be included in the submission. If the experimental results and the chip micrograph are not available at the time of submission, they can be submitted at a later date, but not later than September 15, 2004.
Specification of the submission format and other information are available at http://www.aspdac2005.com

Deadline for summary:      	July 15  (Thu)  		2004
Notification of acceptance:   	September 30 (Thu) 	2004. 
Deadline for camera-ready:   	November 5 (Fri)    	2004 
Review:
Submitted designs will be reviewed by the Design Contest Committee in a process similar to that for technical papers. The following criteria will be applied in the selection of designs:
(1)	Reliability of design and implementation, (2) Quality of implementation, (3) Performance of design, (4) Novelty of application, algorithm and architecture.
Presentation:  
The author or one co-author of each selected design will be required to make a short presentation at a special session held for this purpose. The summary of each selected design will be included in the Conference Proceedings.
ASP-DAC 2005
General Chair:               Ting-Ao Tang ( Fudan Univ. )
Co-chair:                    Jason Cong (UCLA), Richard MM Chen (City Univ. of HK), 
Masaharu Imai (Osaka University)
Technical Program Co£­Chair£ºXianlong Hong £¨Tsinghua Univ.£©, Hidekazu Terai (Ritsumeikan University) , C.K.Cheng ( UCSD) , Tony Ma ( Synopsys), Youn-Long Lin (Tsinghua Univ., Hsinchu) 
Design Contest Co-Chair:     Xiaoyang Zeng (Fudan University) , Makoto Ikeda (University of Tokyo), Lin Yang (Legend Silicon Corp.)