Call for papers - TAU 2015 (http://www.tauworkshop.com)
ACM International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems
[PDF call for papers: http://www.tauworkshop.com/2015/TAU15_CFP_v2.pdf]

* IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: November 17, 2014
Acceptance notification: December 22, 2014
Camera ready paper due: January 12, 2015
Workshop date: March 12-13, 2015
Contest registration starts: October 1, 2014 [Contest is now open - https://sites.google.com/site/taucontest2015/]

Location: Monterey, CA, USA [Hilton Garden Inn, Monterey]

What is the future of timing analysis? How to meet the industry’s insatiable quest for speed, capacity, accuracy, and integration with optimization? Will parallelism be the final answer, or shall we fundamentally re-think timing? What about the challenges for process, 3D, variability, analog modeling and validation?

The TAU series of workshops provide an informal forum for practitioners and researchers working on these and other temporal aspects of analog and digital systems to disseminate early work and engage in a free discussion of ideas. The twenty-second in the TAU series, the TAU 2015 workshop invites submissions and proposals from the traditional as well as emerging areas related to the timing properties of digital electronic systems, including but not limited to the topics listed below.

- Timing: System/circuit/gate/transistor-level timing, CPPR
- Modeling and simulation: Digital, analog, mixed-signal circuits
- Variability: Modeling and analysis
- Power, trade-offs and optimization
- Signal integrity
- Clocking
- Characterization: Library (cell/latch/SRAM) characterization
- Hierarchical timing: Timing macro-modeling
- Emerging technologies: Full custom design analysis, special circuits, 3D ICs, TSVs
- Others: Integrated functional-temporal analysis, formal methods, asynchronous systems, sensor placement

* TIMING CONTEST
Similar to prior years, TAU will organize a timing contest. The topic for the TAU 2015 contest is “Incremental timing and CPPR (common path pessimism reduction)”. Details are posted on the workshop website. Winners of the contest will be awarded plaques as well as cash prizes!

* SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
All papers must be submitted electronically via the workshop website www.tauworkshop.com. Submissions are limited to 6 pages in the double column proceedings format. In order to allow for a blind review, submitted pdf version of the papers should not contain the authors name or any direct reference to the authors. TAU is a workshop aimed at fostering a high level of professional interaction, not a conference. Copies of papers will be provided to the attendees, but the proceedings will not be published by the ACM or the IEEE. Therefore, accepted papers can still be submitted to other conferences and journals.

* ORGANIZATION
General chair: Igor Keller (Cadence) [ikeller@cadence.com]
Past chair: Chirayu Amin (Intel)
Technical program chair: Debjit Sinha (IBM) [debjit.sinha@us.ibm.com]
Contest chair: Jin Hu (IBM) [jinhu@us.ibm.com]