Call for papers - TAU 2016 (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/2016/TAU16_CFP_v2.pdf]

* IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline (extended from November 20, 2015 to): November 25, 2015
Acceptance notification: December 23, 2015
Camera ready paper due: January 8, 2016
Workshop date: March 10-11, 2016

Location: Bay area, CA, USA

It has become clear that timing analysis is NO longer a solved problem. So, what are new challenges as the industry embraces 14/10nm and below, rides the wave of ultra-low-power mobile, wearable devices and jumps on the “Internet of Things” (IoT) bandwagon? How to meet the insatiable demands for accuracy, performance, capacity and functionality? How are multi-core and multi-machine helping? Or is it time to move onto higher levels of abstraction? What about more fundamental challenges coming from process physics, 3D, variability, voltage scaling, analog effects, mixed signal 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-third in the TAU series, the TAU 2016 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, FPGAs, New latches, dual-edge devices, distributed timing
- Modeling and simulation: Digital, analog, mixed-signal circuits, Aging and reliability
- 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, sensor placement, 3D ICs, TSVs
- Others: Integrated functional-temporal analysis, formal methods, asynchronous systems

* TIMING CONTEST
Similar to prior years, TAU will organize a timing contest. The topic for the TAU 2015 contest is “Timing macro-modeling”. 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 8 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 (e.g. DAC 2016).

* ORGANIZATION
General chair: Debjit Sinha (IBM) [debjit.sinha@us.ibm.com]
Past chair: Igor Keller (Cadence) [ikeller@cadence.com]
Technical program chair: Qiuyang Wu (Synopsys) [qwu@synopsys.com]
Contest chair: Jin Hu (IBM) [jinhu@us.ibm.com]